Rate My Professor Benjamin Thorn

Dr. Benjamin Thorn serves as Fixed Term Lecturer in Creative and Performing Arts Education in the School of Education, Faculty of Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences and Education at the University of New England, Australia. He holds a PhD, BA (Hons), and DipEd. Thorn has a broad background in the creative arts, encompassing composition, performance, visual arts, and theatre. As a composer, his music is published and performed worldwide, including at major international events like the World Music Days. He creates works for professional virtuosi and educational contexts, and has prepared performing editions of baroque and renaissance repertoire. He has performed and conducted workshops in Australia and Europe. Thorn has held two solo exhibitions as a collagist and printmaker, created installations at the New England Regional Art Museum, and directed theatrical productions with a focus on dramatizing poetry on stage. Earlier in his career, he worked as a TAFE teacher and researcher for the National Printing Industry Training Council, developing the first Graphic Arts Industry Training Package. He curates the Museum of Printing at NERAM and is artistic director of the New England Bach Festival.

Thorn's research interests include Printing Industry History, Music Education, and Semiotics of Music. His extensive publication record features music editions and compositions, such as Recorders at Large (ed., Currency Press, 1991), The voice of the crocodile (Moeck Verlag, 1991), Recorders at Large volume 2 (ed., Currency Press, 1995), Songs for my father's wedding (Carus Verlag, 1997), The Great Emu War (Loux Music, 1999), Ring around the bath and The clock struck 13 (Productions d'Oz, 2004), Where's the other one? (Orpheus Music, 1998), Pipistrelli gialli (Orpheus Music, 2000), Deep Sea Perspectives (Orpheus Music, 2001), and many others for recorder ensembles, solos, and mixed instruments published primarily by Orpheus Music between 1998 and 2004.