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Kym Dillon is an emerging composer, arranger, orchestrator, pianist and conductor, who is currently based in Melbourne and Geelong. Starting out his career as a jazz pianist, his interest soon turned to composition, and his work now regularly spans multiple genres and areas of musical practice. Kym has had original works commissioned by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Astra Chamber Music Society, and Musica Viva; his music has been performed in Canada, the U.K., North America, Canada, Romania and Italy. His work is often inspired by reflections on the nature of imagination and creation — what it means to create and what our creative compulsion says about us. In 2017, Kym was commissioned by St Paul’s Lutheran Church Box Hill to compose a cantata for chamber orchestra, choir and soloists to celebrate the 500th Anniversary of the Lutheran reformation, with the work being given a repeat performance the following year. 2019 saw Kym collaborate with BK Opera to transform the intense orchestral score of Béla Bartók’s opera Bluebeard’s Castle into the style of synthesiser-laden '80s electronica. Kym is also a conductor for the charity Creativity Australia’s With One Voice program, which seeks to connect people from different walks of life through community singing. As part of this role, he conducts three choirs (Geelong, Altona Meadows and Ashburton), having led peformances at Melbourne Town Hall, Melbourne Recital Centre, and the Monash Carols by Candlelight at Jells Park.