Diana Blom

Diana Blom, composer/pianist, Associate Professor of Music at Western Sydney University, has co-curated composition/performance/CD projects featuring Australian, New Zealand and European composers including Antarctica – new music for piano and/or toy piano – with Italian pianist/toy pianist Antonietta Loffredo. Recent works include Alien Avatar 1 for Korean taegum player Hyelim Kim, and percussionist Claire Edwards. Scores and CDs are published by Wirripang Pty. Ltd., Orpheus Music and Wai-te-Ata Press. Music Composition Toolbox (Science Press) is a co-authored composition textbook. Published research is on higher education music performance, the artist as academic, student popular songwriters, composing and preparing new music for performance.