Diana Blom

Diana Blom, composer/pianist, was born in New Zealand and moved to Sydney in 1969. She studied music at the University of Canterbury (NZ), the University of Sydney (MA composition; PhD minimal music) and the University of Michigan (musicology). Composition studies were with Peter Sculthorpe and Ian Farr. Diana lived in the USA, Hong Kong and Malaysia for 8 years. She has an interest in Australian and New Zealand writers and song settings have been released on the Wirripang CD Songs by Diana Blom. Diana has co-curated several composition / performance / CD projects with Australian and international composers and performers, including: Shadows and Silhouettes – new music for solo piano with a Western-Chinese confluence; Antarctica – new music for piano and/or toy piano; Australia East and West, new music for viola and piano; Multiple Keyboards – new music for pianos, toy pianos; and New Art Song of the Pacific Rim. In 1974 she was Composer-in-Residence with the Australian Opera, which commissioned a children’s opera. Scores and CDs are published by Wirripang Pty. Ltd., Orpheus Music and Wai-te-Ata Press. Music Composition Toolbox (Science Press), a co-authored composition textbook, is published by Science Press. Diana is an Adjunct Fellow Associate Professor of Music at Western Sydney University.

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