Biography
Diana Blom, composer/pianist, was born in New Zealand and moved to Sydney in 1969. She studied music at the University of Canterbury (NZ), University of Sydney (MA composition; PhD minimal music) and the University of Michigan (musicology). Composition studies were with Peter Sculthorpe. Diana lived in Hong Kong and Malaysia for 8 years.
Diana 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 composition/performance/CD projects featuring Australian, New Zealand and European composers and performers: Childhood in Music – new music for solo piano; Shadows and Silhouettes – new music for solo piano with a Western-Chinese confluence; Antarctica – new music for piano and/or toy piano – all with Italian pianist/toy pianist Antonietta Loffredo; Playing with Fire, new music for live piano and electroacoustics with Ian Stevenson; Australia East and West, new music for viola and piano with Dawn Bennett; Multiple Keyboards – new music for pianos, toy pianos with Michael Hannan.
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 Associate Professor of Music at Western Sydney University. Published research has focused on higher education music performance, the artist as academic, student popular songwriters, composing and preparing new music for performance.
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A festival and conference dedicated to music for the Toy Piano, comprising of a series of concert...