Kym Dillon

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 pianist she has performed in the Melbourne International Jazz Festival, 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, Gorgi Coghlan, Ian Stenlake, and Harrison Craig. She also appeared on ABC TV’s The Piano performing her own composition, ‘Epilogue’. 
 
As a composer she has been a finalist for the Australian Art Music Awards, 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, and was awarded the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music/Melbourne Recital Centre Composition Prize in 2023. Her anticipated debut piano album ‘Vendestiny’ will launch in April 2026.  

As part of her work deepening public engagement with music, she regularly conducts two large community choirs (who have been featured on the ABC and Channel 9), regularly gives pre-concert talks for the Australian Chamber Orchestra and Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, and has been a guest presenter for ABC Classic radio.