Naomi Dinnen

Naomi has been a Casual Lecturer at the School of Music since 2020 (Popular Music in Culture and Context, Music and Globalisation, and Writing About Music 1). She organised the U2 Conference in Sydney in November 2019, coinciding with the band’s Joshua Tree 30^th Anniversary Tour, and is currently writing a PhD on ‘Finding the influence of the Hebrew Bible in the Music of U2’, at the Australian National University’s School of Music under the supervision of Prof Samantha Bennett and Prof Kim Cunio.

Naomi has a BA in Politics and Policy, Masters in Professional Education and Training from Deakin University and an Advanced Certificate in Jewish Studies (Florence Melton Institute). In 2018 Naomi’s chapter 'You Don't See Me But You Will: Jewish Thought and U2’ was published in the Bloomsbury Academic Press book U2 and the Religious Impulse, edited by Scott Calhoun, Professor of English, Cedarville University, Ohio, USA.

Previously Naomi was a music journalist. writing monthly columns on club music and culture for Juice Magazine, 3D-World, The Drum Media and Rolling Stone, was a pioneering web content specialist for early-90s sites such as Tribe and Scape, and published Australia’s first specialist dance music (EDM) magazine, Loop.

In 1994 Naomi was appointed Dance Music Manager at PolyGram Records Australia then moved to EMI Music as Dance Music A&R and Label Manager, signing chart topping artists Paul Mac, Josh Abrahams and Groove Terminator to separate deals. In 1997 she founded the Pacific Circle Dance Music Convention in conjunction with Michael Chugg’s Pacific Circle Music Convention, and began consulting for independent artists and labels.

From 2004 to 2018 Naomi worked in Vocational Education and Training Industry as Executive Officer and CEO of various organisations including the Group Training Association of NSW & ACT. She established an annual Skills Conference and as a well-regarded thought leader, published opinion pieces on Training and Education policy and advised business and government about supporting the skill development of young Australians.