Composers' Biographies
Diana Blom
Diana Blom, composer and keyboard player, has written several works for voice and piano including Southern Songs, Three Poems of Walter de la Mare (soprano); The Dark, the Light (contralto); Portrait of America, The Library (tenor), Life (baritone), Dance Set (bass) and Tangling with the Epic I and II (tenor, baritone solos and duets). Modern Folksong is four songs for unaccompanied voice. Diana has co-curated several composition/performance/CD projects of new compositions including New art song of the Pacific Rim, War Letters – new music commemorating WW1 and Short Tracks. She is co-author of Music Composition Toolbox, published by Science Press. Scores and CDs are published through Wirripang Pty. Ltd., Orpheus Music and Wai-te-Ata Press. Diana is Associate Professor of Music at Western Sydney University.
Tyler Goodrich White
Tyler Goodrich White is Professor of Conducting and Composition at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he has served as Director of Orchestras since 1994. Under White’s direction, the UNL Symphony has been recognized as one of America’s outstanding collegiate orchestras. As a composer, Tyler White has received commissions from the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, the National Symphony Orchestra, Lincoln’s Symphony Orchestra, and numerous other organizations. Most recently, he was awarded a Silver Medal in the 2019-2020 Global Music Awards, and in 2020 he was awarded The American Prize for Orchestral Composition. White currently serves as Composer-in-Residence of Lincoln’s Symphony Orchestra.
