Composer, Pianist, Harpsichordist, and Writer

performed by Aysha Shanal and Ashley Hribar, Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House. Other concerts: Armidale Uniting Church 114 Rusden Street, April 26th, 7.30pm; Tamworth TRCM Chapel 27th April, 7.30pm; May 18th, Erfurt Rathaus, Germany; May 23rd 8pm Cologne, Germany.

Kevin Hanrahan (tenor), Diana Blom (piano) – University of Nebraska-Lincoln; East Michigan University, Ypsilanti; Coastal Carolina University, Conway. Program of 6 sets of songs including Dance Set by Blom, Portrait of America, by Blom, Southern Songs by Blom, and The Ballad of the Canterbury Pilgrims by Blom. Video of Nebraska concert – Sunday, February 3, 3.00pm, Kimball Recital Hall. Kevin Hanrahan, tenor, Patrick McNally, baritone, Diana Blom, piano. https://youtu.be/VIDzKevVqOk

6pm April 9th, 2018. Melbourne Recital Hall. Ayse Göknur Shanal, soprano, Ashley Hribar, piano. Gallipoli Songs. Blom, Remembrances Four concert recital at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bfXHX-u80s (from 50 mins to end).

May 5, Antonietta Loffredo, Lugano, Switzerland – funding raising concert for refugee women’s sanctuary in Athens.

Kevin Hanrahan and Diana Blom WSU, 24th May, 2.30-3.30pm, Playhouse Theatre; 17th May, 2018, Perth – Kevin Hanrahan and David Wickham, WAAPA Music Auditorium; Dunedin – 9 May, 1pm, Marama Hall, University of Otago – with Terence Dennis, piano.

a concert for Piano City Milano 2018 on the 19th of May.

https://www.pianocitymilano.it/about The concert took place at the Bunker Breda, the air raid shelters built by Breda airframe factory at Sesto San Giovanni in World War II. http://www.parconord.milano.it/bunker-breda

 Diana Blom, played by Adriana Mascoli. Associazione Giosue Carducci, Como. In memory of Maria Terraneo Fonticoli.

performed by Aysha Shanal and Ashley Hribar (piano) Camberwell Uniting Church. Armistice Day recital.

Antonietta Loffredo (piano & toy piano) ‘Multiple Keyboards’ – The Blue Ice Cave – piano & toy piano – Blom, Drawing Firewheels – piano & toy piano – Blom

The Dark, the Light (text by Helen Garner) – contralto and piano – Blom

http://www.hertsmusicfest.org.uk/events

music for 2-4 pianos and toy pianos. Music by Blom, Hannan, Smith, Pertout, Martin. Pianists Antonietta Loffredo (piano and toy piano), Liam Viney and Anna Grinberg (Viney-Grinberg piano duo), Jennifer MacRitchie, Pablo Puentes, Michael Hannan, Felicity Martin, Diana Blom. Theme and Variations Showroom, Willoughby Rd., Willoughby.

 for double manual harpsichord, performed 23 October by Diana Weston, Geelvinck Fortepiano Festival, Amsterdam, 23-29 October.

for piano, performed 1st September, 12.00 noon, by Michael Kieran Harvey, Melbourne Composer’s League concert as part of the Western Sydney University Creativity Unlimited Music Festival, 2016.

for tenor saxophone and marimba, performed by Translucent Duo (David Lockeridge, marimba and Bernard Lagana, saxophone), 8pm 17th August, 2016, Sydney Conservatorium of Music.

earth tones…’ – Antonietta Loffredo (toy piano/piano), Semana Cultural (culture week) The Toy Piano in Contemporary Art Music, Conservatorio Teresa Berganza, Madrid Spain.

Jamie Reimer (soprano), Kevin Hanrahan (tenor), Jeffrey Jones (baritone), Denis Plutalov (piano), Kimball Recital Hall, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA.

musical settings of letters from WW1. Performers – Halcyon (www.halcyon.org.au) – Artistic director, mezzo-soprano Jenny Duck-Chong; Alison Morgan (soprano); Clive Birch (bass); James Wannan (viola); Josephine Allan (piano); Kaylie Dunstan (percussion). Program: ‘Dearest Mother…’ – Nicole Murphy, Letter from the trenches – Larry Sitsky, Triptych (war letters) – Diana Blom, Un poilu australien – Elliott Gyger. Venue: Ku-ring-gai Town Hall, 1186 Pacific Highway, Pymble 7pm. Bookings: http://www.classikon.com/concerts/halcyon-pymble-nov-2015/

War Letters – musical settings of letters from WW1. Performers – Halcyon (www.halcyon.org.au) – Artistic director, mezzo-soprano Jenny Duck-Chong; Alison Morgan (soprano); Clive Birch (bass); James Wannan (viola); Josephine Allan (piano); Kaylie Dunstan (percussion). Program: ‘Dearest Mother…’ – Nicole Murphy, Letter from the trenches – Larry Sitsky, Triptych (war letters) – Diana Blom, Un poilu australien – Elliott Gyger. Venue: Ku-ring-gai Town Hall, 1186 Pacific Highway, Pymble 1.30-3.00pm. Bookings: d.blom@westernsydney.edu.au

for soprano and piano by Diana Blom. Performers: Ayse Goknur Shanal (sop), Patrick Keith (pno). A concert to commemorate the centenary of Gallipoli, 8pm Paddington Uniting Church, with songs by Dixon, Fiddes, Eryilmaz, Duparc.

for solo trombone by Diana Blom. Trombone – Rocco Rescigno. Risounanze Festival 2015, Teatro L. Garzoni, Piazza Giuseppe Ellero, Tricesimo (UD), ore 18, Italy. http://www.risuonanze.it/2015/programma2015.html

by Diana Blom. To be played by Antonietta Loffredo in the contemporary music festival ‘Risuonanze 2014 – incontri di nuove musiche’ in Il Carso in Corso, Monfalcone, Gorizia, Italy (commission from Antonietta Loffredo) http://www.risuonanze.it/home.html

for piano and toy piano by Diana Blom. Performed by Antonietta Loffredo as part of the project, Antarctica – new music for piano and toy piano. Composers are: Sara Carvalho Portugal), Mercedes Zavala (Spain), Francesco Schweizer (Italy), Stefano Procaccioli (Italy), Chris Adams (New Zealand), Nathan Wilson (Australia), Paolo Longo (Italy), Gian Paolo Luppi (Italy), Antonio Giacometti (Italy), Paul Smith (Australia). At the Theme and Variations Showroom, 451 Willoughby Road, Willoughby, Sydney, 6.30pm.

 for piano and toy piano by Diana Blom. Performed by Antonietta Loffredo as part of the project, Antarctica – new music for piano and toy piano. Composers are: Sara Carvalho Portugal), Mercedes Zavala (Spain), Francesco Schweizer (Italy), Stefano Procaccioli (Italy), Chris Adams (New Zealand), Nathan Wilson (Australia), Paolo Longo (Italy), Gian Paolo Luppi (Italy), Antonio Giacometti (Italy), Paul Smith (Australia). Intersecting Lines – a symposium at the University of Western Sydney, Performance Space, Kingswood campus.

Performing songs by Betty Beath, Peter Sculthorpe, Percy Grainger and Diana Blom:

Here, at the end of the world we learn to dance – for tenor and piano – text by Lloyd Jones (New Zealand novelist) – Kevin Hanrahan and Blom;

Three Songs of Walter de la Mare – for soprano and piano – Jamie Reimer and Blom;

‘The Fisherman’s Wife’ from Three Water Ballads of Tim Malfroy – for soprano and piano – Jamie Reimer and Blom. 3pm, Performing Arts Centre, Kincoppal-Rose Bay, New South Head Rd., Rose Bay, Sydney.

for piano and toy piano by Diana Blom. Performed by Antonietta Loffredo as part of the project, Antarctica – new music for piano and toy piano. Composers are: Sara Carvalho Portugal), Mercedes Zavala (Spain), Francesco Schweizer (Italy), Stefano Procaccioli (Italy), Chris Adams (New Zealand), Nathan Wilson (Australia), Paolo Longo (Italy), Gian Paolo Luppi (Italy), Antonio Giacometti (Italy), Paul Smith (Australia). At the Auditorium Santa Caterina in Como, Italy.