Diane Thome

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| birth_date = 1942

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| death_date = January 12, 2025

| death_place = Seattle, WA

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| nationality = American

| alma_mater = Eastman School of Music
University of Pennsylvania
Princeton University

| occupation = Composer

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Diane Thome (1942-2025) was an American composer. She studied piano with Dorothy Taubman and Orazio Frugoni and composition with Robert Strassburg, Roy Harris, Darius Milhaud, A.U. Boscovich, and Milton Babbitt.

Life and work

Thome graduated with two undergraduate degrees from Eastman School of Music with distinction in piano and composition, a Master of Arts in theory and composition from the University of Pennsylvania and a Master of Fine Arts and Ph.D in composition from Princeton University.{{cite book |title=The Norton/Grove dictionary of women composers|first=Julie Anne|last=Sadie|first2=Rhian|last2=Samuel|year=1994}} She was the first woman to receive a Ph.D. in music from Princeton University.{{cite web |url=http://faculty.washington.edu/dthome|title=Diane Thome|access-date=16 October 2010}}

After completing her studies, Thome became a professor and then chair of the Composition Program at the University of Washington School of Music. Thome's compositions have been performed in Europe, China, Australia, Canada, Israel and the United States. She has been composer-in-residence at the University of Sussex and the Chamber Music Conference and Composers' Forum of the East (Bennington, Vermont). Her compositions have been featured on French radio. {{cite web |url=http://www.leonarda.com/comptv.html|title=Classical Composers|access-date=16 October 2010}}{{cite book |title=American Women Composers: Volume 16, Parts 1-2|author=Pendle, Karin|year=1997}}

Thome has received commissions from organizations including the Bremerton Symphony Association, Seattle Symphony, New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, The Eleusis Consortium, The Esoterics, and Trimpin.