VENDESTINY Kym Alexandra Dillon

• Kym Alexandra Dillon: Vanishing Act:
• 1 Dillon: Vanishing Act 04:26
• Bells Across the Hills:
• 2 Dillon: Bells Across the Hills 04:39
• Travelling Tune:
• 3 Dillon: Travelling Tune 04:26
• For Honour:
• 4 Dillon: For Honour 04:59
• Three Two One:
• 5 Dillon: Three Two One 02:22
• Connexions:
• 6 Dillon: Connexions 05:35
• Fare Thee Well:
• 7 Dillon: Fare Thee Well 07:45
• The Waves:
• 8 Dillon: The Waves 05:28
• Total Runtime 39:40

Info zu VENDESTINY

The Power to Evoke: Releasing the debut solo album of award-winning pianist and composer Kym Alexandra Dillon, VENDESTINY draws the listener into an imaginative and emotional inner world, all through the enchantment of a solo piano. Through her virtuosic and expressive language, Dillon transforms the piano into an orchestra and a lyrical, soulful extension of herself, traversing stylistic divides.

Each piece starts its life as a musical seed that blooms into a complete and ornate artwork, conjuring its own realm within which to explore and feel. Moving fluidly between classical, jazz, and contemporary genres, Dillon explores her personal reflections on self-discovery, the refuge of the imagination, the choice of gratitude in the aftermath of a relationship, and how our own lives and destinies are intricately intertwined with those around us.

Kym Alexandra Dillon is an award-winning composer, pianist, and presenter currently based in Melbourne and Geelong. She is continuously engaged across a broad spectrum of genres and contexts, from contemporary classical composition, orchestration and arranging, through to jazz performance, accompanying, community choir leading and public speaking about music. Her original works have been commissioned by many presenters, including Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Musica Viva, and Melbourne Recital Centre, and her music has been performed in Australia, the U.K., North America, Romania and Italy. Dillon makes her PFSMF debut with a recital of her brand new pieces that invite the listener to explore the mosaic of worlds that a single piano can conjure, celebrating the imagination and the piano’s power to evoke. Alongside, she presents works by Franz Liszt and Keith Jarrett, two artists whom she regards as greatly having influenced her sound. Dillon’s arrestingly beautiful compositions and mesmerising playing create an atmosphere of exquisite enchantment.

Kym Alexandra Dillon, piano

Kym Alexandra Dillon
is an Australian composer, pianist and presenter whose unique path as a musician has led her to cultivating a category-defying artistic career. Equally at home improvising in jazz ensembles, composing for symphony orchestras, performing complex contemporary works or engaging orchestral audiences with her talks on music, her professional activity spans across a multitude of disciplines and genres, all stemming from her deep love of music, and belief in its power to shape and enrich our lives.

As a Composer she has been a finalist for the Australian Art Music Awards (Work of the Year - Large Ensemble 2023), has been commissioned by ensembles such as the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Australian Youth Orchestra, Forest Collective, Inventi Ensemble, Musica Viva, Homophonic! and the Melbourne Recital Centre. She completed a bachelor of composition at the Victorian College of the Arts, and her Masters in composition at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, and was awarded the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music/Melbourne Recital Centre Composition Prize in 2023. She has learnt from such as Carl Vine, Melody Eötvös, Elliott Gyger, Christine McCombe and John McCaughey. She has been touted by Limelight as “a skilled composer to keep an eye on”, and in a review of her large scale song cycle Diapsalmata: Portrait of a Self, writer Myron May wrote that “Dillon’s skill at bringing highly complex thoughts through classical music, opera and philosophy so seamlessly together is ingenious”. She also has a passion for contemporary orchestral arranging, and was involved as an arranger for the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra’s collaboration with Find Your Voice Collective, ‘Sonder’, in 2026.

As a Pianist she performs widely across both classical and jazz contexts. Originally beginning her piano studies with composer Vanessa Lann in the Netherlands, her sense for play, creativity and collaboration led her into the improvisational language of jazz in her early life, but this soon expanded out into a love for classical and art music. Equally informed by her compositional training and her contemporary improvisational language, her piano voice is known for its unique expansiveness, stylistic versatility, emotional directness and lyricism.

She has performed in the Melbourne International Jazz Festival, the 2026 Peninsula Summer Music Festival, and at 2025’s Port Fairy Spring Music Festival she performed the central piano part in Stefan Cassomenos’ opera ‘Eva’ as well as performing her solo show. She has been awarded ‘best accompanist in the finals’ at the 2022 National Liederfest, the ‘Maurie Fabrikant award for piano playing excellence’ from the Victorian Jazz Club, and frequently tours across Australia accompanying performers such as Simon Gleeson, Rachael Beck, Michael Cormick, Gorgi Coghlan, Ian Stenlake, and Harrison Craig. She appeared as part of ABC TV’s The Piano performing her own composition, ‘Epilogue’. In April 2026 she will launch her debut album as pianist and composer, ‘Vendestiny’.

As a Presenter committed to deepening public engagement with music, she regularly delivers pre-concert talks for the Australian Chamber Orchestra and Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, where she unpacks contemporary orchestral repertoire for a general audience. She regularly conducts two large social-inclusion community choirs under the With One Voice program (who have been featured on the ABC and Channel 9), and she has been a guest presenter for ABC Classic radio.

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