Jody Diamond
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Jody Diamond (b. Pasadena, California, April 23, 1953) is an American composer, performer, writer, publisher, editor, and educator. She specializes in new music for the Indonesian gamelan and is considered an international expert on the subject.
She received a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1977, and an M.A. from San Francisco State University in 1979, pursuing interdisciplinary studies in music, anthropology, and education.
Diamond is a co-founder, co-director, and principal editor of Frog Peak Music, a composers' collective based in the U.S. state of New Hampshire. She also founded (in 1981) and directs the American Gamelan Institute and edits its journal, Balungan.
She has received a Fulbright Senior Scholar Research Fellowship to study in Indonesia (1988–89) and a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (1991).
She has created numerous works for gamelan, often in combination with Western instruments, and performs with Gamelan Son of Lion.
Diamond has taught at Dartmouth College, the University of California, Berkeley, Mills College, Goddard College, Bates College, Franklin Pierce College, and Monash University in Australia. She is married to the composer Larry Polansky.
[edit] Selected works
- 1981 - In that Bright World, voice, gamelan (based on Appalachian folk song)
- 1982 - Sabbath Bride, gamelan, 1982 (based on Hebrew melody)
- 1984 0 Hard Times, chorus, violin, mandocello, gamelan (based on a Stephen Foster song)
[edit] Writings
Diamond, Jody (1990). "There is no They There." Musicworks, no. 47, pp. 12–23.
