Senior Lecturer Diana Blom

• Biography
• Areas of Research / Teaching Expertise
• Grants / Current Projects
• Awards and Recognition
• Publications
• Professional Associations
  
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Biography

Diana Blom is Associate Professor in, and Head of Program for, Music, School of Communication Arts. Current research interests focus on tertiary performance (assessing group performance, collaboration, interpretation); student preferences for, and descriptions of, music; placement of melodic dissonance in the musical; and how arts practitioners working in academia view their practice as research. As a composer and performer (harpsichord and piano), she engages in practice-led research and in 2011 received an APRA/AMCOS music award, with Dawn Bennett, for a project of newly composed viola and piano music, Australia East & West.

In 2011 she was a member of a team awarded an ALTC Innovation and Development Grant into 'e-Portfolios for creative arts students'. Recent publications in several journals, including Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice, Higher Education Research & Development, International Journal of Education and the Arts, International Journal of Music Education, have resulted from several of these research interests. She is co-author, with Matthew Hindson and Damian Barbeler, of Music Composition Toolbox (Science Press), a composition text for secondary and lower tertiary students.

Diana is a composer, represented by the Australian Music Centre and SOUNZ, published by Wirripang Pty. Ltd. and Orpheus Music, and a performer on harpsichord and piano. Recent publications include The Cat's Meow for acoustic piano and CD soundbed, a collaboration with Adrian Barr, also released on CD (score and CD published by Wirripang Pty. Ltd., 2011). Her work for solo piano, The Travelling Chinese Orchestra, was selected for performance at the 2010 International Society for Contemporary Music, World New Music Days. Ball Games – Squash, Table Tennis, Basketball, were published in 'Wirripang Australian Piano Anthology 2011', Book One, Grades 1-4, in 2011. She has an interest in Australian writers and has set to music words of David Malouf, Helen Garner, Jocelyn Ortt-Saeed, Tim Malfroy, Robyn Ravlich and Peter Goldsworthy.

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Areas of Research / Teaching Expertise

Music Performance (tertiary peer assessment, collaboration, interpretation); Practice-based research.

The artist as academic.

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Grants / Current Projects

2011 APRA/AMCOS Music Award – newly composed music for viola and piano.

2011 ALTC Innovation and Development Grant into 'e-Portfolios for creative arts students.'

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Awards and Recognition

2008 Vice-Chancellor's Excellence Award - University of Western Sydney - Highly Commended for Postgraduate Research Training & Supervision (with Atherton, Paine, Crossman and Macarthur)

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Publications

Articles

2008 'Teaching class-based music performance at tertiary level: Focusing theory on practice' in Inside Outside Downside Up: conservatoire training and musicians' work. (eds) Dawn Bennett and Michael Hannan, Perth: Black Swan Press, pp.101-109. ISBN 9780975751961

2008 'Creating "a very fulfilled and wonderful piece": Asia-Pacific musics as an impetus for upper primary class composition' - Atherton, Michael and Bruce Crossman (eds.). Music of the Spirit: Asian-Pacific Musical Identity. Sydney: Australian Music Centre. pp.145-158. ISBN 9780909168650

2010 Bennett, D., Wright, D., Blom, D. 'The Artistic practice-Research-Teaching (ART)
Nexus: Translating the Information Flow'. Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice, Vol. 7 (2), Article 3.

2010 Wright, D., Bennett, D., Blom, D. 'The Interface between Arts Practice and Research: Attitudes and Perceptions of Australian Artist-academics'. Higher Education Research & Development, 29:4, 461-473.

2009 'Artist Academics: Performing the Australian Research Agenda' by Dawn Bennett, David Wright, Diana Blom, in International Journal of Education and the Arts, Vol. 10. No. 17, May 21, 2009, pp. 1-15. 

Scores

2011 Tango (February) – solo piano. Wirripang Pty. Ltd.

2010 Genji (the shining prince) and the koto player – violin & piano. Publications by Wirripang

2010 Clavichord – poem by Walter de la Mare – soprano and piano. Wirripang Pty. Ltd.

2010 Walking deep under the sea for piano in Take Flight – Music from New Zealand for Intermediate Pianists (Ed. G. Bibby). Wellington: Sunrise Music Trust, p.66. (plus CD)

2010 Three Water Ballads of Tim Malfroy (poems by Tim Malfroy) – voice and piano. Wirripang Pty. Ltd.

2010 The Dark, the Light (short story by Helen Garner) – voice and piano. Wirripang Pty. Ltd.

2010 The Travelling Chinese Orchestra - piano. Wirripang Pty. Ltd.

2010 Lady Huang’s Album - harpsichord. Wirripang Pty. Ltd.

2010 Walking with Bertie (recorder trio) in A Handful of Trios – Orpheus Music, OMP224

2010 The Ca Trù Singer, bassoon and piano (with percussion). Wirripang Pty. Ltd.

2009 Gong Agong for piano and CD – Diana Blom & Emma Stacker. Publications by Wirripang

Recordings

2011 Ball Games – Basketball, by Diana Blom. Australian Piano Anthology for the 21st Century – Vol. One. Katie Zhukov, piano. Wirripang Pty. Ltd. Wirr. 045.

2011 Childhood in Music. Antonietta Loffredo – piano. ‘The Cat’s Meow’ for piano and CD soundbed by Diana Blom and Adrian Barr. Wirripang Pty. Ltd. Wirr 042

2011 Skins – Compositions by Australian Women Composers. Jeanell Carrigan – piano. Tango (September – 2004) for solo piano by Diana Blom (track 22 – 4.56). Wirripang Pty. Ltd. Wirr 038.

2009 Creative Explosion. ‘Genji (the shining prince) and the koto player’ by Diana Blom. James Cuddeford (violin), Zubin Kanga (piano); ‘Haiku 1’ by John Encarnacao. James Cuddeford (violin), Diana Blom (harpsichord). Publications by Wirripang Wirr 028.

2008 Music of the Spirit. The Whale’s Song – Diana Blom (Deborah Coogan cello/reverb, Diana Blom piano) Wirr 011

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Professional Associations

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