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Diana Blom

Composer

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.


Composed (67)

...earth tones...

for toy piano


After the Rain

for four pianos


Arcadelt's Bass

for recorder quartet, 6m


At the end of the world we learn to dance

for tenor and piano, 14m 30s


Beebopaloobopawopbamboom

for recorder quartet, 3m


Biffo in the Toy Box

for toy piano and manual-wind music box


Binary Star (Alpha Centauri)

for flute, clarinet, toy piano, violin and cello


Braided River

for three midi pianos, 15m


Calder's Surprise

for two toy pianos, 2m 30s


Calling the Cows

for tenor trombone


Cat's Play

for toy piano, castanet, horn and bell


Clavichord

for high voice and piano, 1m


Cloud Studies

for solo piano, 10m


Cobweb Farm

for bass voice and piano, 1m 40s


Cool Grooves

for solo viola


Dance Set

for bass voice and piano, 4m 33s


Drawing Firewheels

For solo piano and toy piano (one player), 6m


Fearless Dreams

for clarinet, cello and piano


Five Green Songs

for voice, cello and piano, 17m 15s


For Now

for unaccompanied choir, 2m


Freefall

for two pianos, 4m


Genji (the Shining Prince) and the Koto Player

for piano and violin, 8m 30s


Gong Agong

for piano and CD, 7m 10s


Heavenly Dance No. 1

for descant recorder and organ


Heavenly Dance No. 2

for descant recorder and organ


Into the Sun

for viola and piano, 13m


Japanese Knitting

for toy piano and three knitting needles


Lady Huang's Album

for double manual harpsichord


Lute and Flute

for treble recorder and cello, 6m 55s


Modern Tango

for piano, 5m


Modern Tango

for cello and piano, 5m


Out of Time

For unaccompanied choir, 1m


Playing with Fire

for live acoustic piano and CD soundbed, 6m


Portrait of America

for tenor and piano


Quiet Music I and II

for solo piano, 5m


Remembering Babylon

for tenor and piano, 14m


Remembrances Four

for soprano and piano


River Circles

for effects-processed multitrack harpsichord, 11m


Saron Study I

for toy piano and pre-recorded saron, 2m


Seven Rings of Saturn

for unaccompanied choir, 4m


Smoke and Mirrors

for tenor saxophone and marimba, 7m


Songs for Salome

for mezzo-soprano and piano, 8m 45s


Tango (September)

for piano, 5m 15s


Tango Waltz

for piano, 4m 44s


The Ballad of the Canterbury Pilgrims

for soprano, tenor, baritone and piano


The Blue Ice Cave

for piano and toy piano, 8m 30s


The Ca Tru Singer

for bassoon and piano/percussion, 7m 20s


The Cat's Meow

for piano and CD soundbed


The Dark, The Light

for voice and piano, 11m


The Green Man Dances

for piano duet, 2m 30s


The Library

for tenor and piano, 10m 30s


The Muffin Fiend

opera for children, 30m


The Night Ship

for solo piano, 4m 55s


The Sun Rising

for treble recorder and organ, 5m 5s


The Whale's Song

for cello and piano, 2m


Three Walter de la Mare Songs

for soprano and piano, 5m 14s


Three Water Ballads of Tim Malfroy

for voice and piano, 7m 50s


Through Shadows

for toy piano


Triptych (War Letters)

for soprano, mezzo-soprano and bass voices, viola, percussion and piano, 12m


Two Chinese Folk Songs

for piano duet, 5m 30s


Two Pieces for Flute and Piano

for flute and piano, 4m 30s


Violin Sonata - Newgrass Bluegrass

for violin and piano, 6m 50s


Waltzing with Elling

for viola and piano, 3m


Witches' Cauldron

for unspecified voices and unspecified drone, 2m



Resources (1)


Performances (1)

Music as Play

A festival and conference dedicated to music for the Toy Piano, comprising of a series of concert...