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I’m lucky to have a pretty incredible variety to my work. So keep checking back for different opportunities to hear me play.
Contralto on Monday Evening Concerts
8 pm
Zipper Hall @ The Colburn School, Los Angeles, CA
“Contralto is a one-hour work for video, strings, and percussion that exists in between the spaces of experimental music and documentary. The piece features a cast of transgender women speaking, singing, and performing vocal exercises accompanied by a dense and varied musical score that includes a variety of conventional and “non-musical” approaches to sound-making.” – composer, Sara Hennies
Spacepants plays Oh My Ears Festival
7-10 pm
Phoenix, AZ
Diana and her duo partner, Jennifer Beattie, in a program they’ve titled Periscope will be giving the world premiere of their new arrangement of Garth Knox’s Jonah and the Whale (originally for viola and tuba) for viola, 25 ft drainage tube and electronics. Program includes additional works by Spacepants, Kerrith Livengood, Kayleigh Butcher and Bethany Younge.
Synchromy with Tuesdays @ Monk Space present say I am not far enough
6 – 7:30 pm – readings, discussion, food, and music
8 pm – concert and readings
Monk Space, Los Angeles, CA
A night of readings, art, and music inspired by the life and work of late American novelist Ursula K. Le Guin. Diana will be playing chamber music by Jason Barabba and Naima Fine. She might also be bringing one of her drainage tubes to improvise on…you’ll just have to come and see!
Diana performs 6 Character Pieces for solo viola by Kevin Hartnett
8 pm
Art Share, Los Angeles, CA
resonant frequencies is a Los Angeles-based organization committed to the cultivation and presentation of artistic collaborations that reach across aesthetic and stylistic boundaries.
Extended Technique classes for students in Los Angeles at Violafest
9 am – 4 pm
LA City College, Los Angeles, CA
Diana will be teaching classes to middle and high school students about all the fun crunching, quacking, wailing, “non- traditional” sounds she likes to make on on the viola.
Berio Sequenza
8pm
Art Share, Los Angeles, CA
Diana is reprising her performance of Berio’s brutal Sequenza for Solo Viola. Not to be missed. Program details coming soon!
SPACEPANTS at FETA Fest
8pm
Private Residences, Miami FL
Spacepants will be exploring and creating unique environments for their vocal and tube improvisations
Diana Premieres Work for Viola and Modular Synth
8pm
Chewing Foil, Los Angeles CA
Diana will premiere a work for viola and modular synthesizer by Bryan Curt Kosters
Isaura Quartet on Equalsound
8 pm, ArtShare LA
DTLA
Diana is thrilled to play with her friends in ISQ on a program of Worthington, Eagle, and Coates.
www.equalsound.org
Black Queen Danish Premiere at the Queens Festival
5/14: 8pm
5/15: 5pm
Aalborg University
Presented as a part of the Queens Festival, Diana and collaborators Adam Marks, Jennifer Beattie, and Juraj Kojs will present the folk-electronic-theater piece “The Black Queen”
For more information
BLISS with Wildup
May 25, 2019
Redcat
Noon to Midnight
Wildup and some very courageous singers will be mounting a 12 hour long performance of a 2 minute loop of music from Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro”
Will they survive??
Noon to Midnight with Monday Evening Concerts and Wildup
June 1, 2019
Disney Hall
12:30 pm Glassworks with Monday Evening Concerts
5 pm Greenwald and Barwick with Wildup
Derrick Spiva Trio on Gateway Performance Series
June 1, 2019
7:30 pm
Gateway Church
Diana, Jacqueline Marshall and Rachel Mellis will be performing “Crossing” a trio for flute, harp, and viola by Derrick Spiva on Rachel Mellis’s recital for the Gateway Performance Series.
So You Think You Can Hindemith:
Hindemith Recording Fundraiser Concert
June 29, 2019 8 pm
Tickets: $25+
Villa Aurora, Pacific Palisades, CA
Villa Aurora has generously provided support including the location for my upcoming recordings of the seven Hindemith Sonatas. This concert will be an event to raise the last bit of funds we need to appropriately pay everyone involved and publicize this project. Come celebrate my original viola hero, Paul Hindemith!!
MUSE/IQUE:
MOVING/PICTURES
July 6, 2019 8 pm
Tickets: $50+
The Hungtinton Library, San Marino, CA
MUSE/IQUE concerts are always a blast. Some of the best produced outdoor concerts I’ve been a part of.
MUSE/IQUE:
TRAIN/GLORY
August 3, 2019 8 pm
Tickets: $50+
The Hungtinton Library, San Marino, CA
MUSE/IQUE concerts are always a blast. Some of the best produced outdoor concerts I’ve been a part of.
MUSE/IQUE:
BAND/TOGETHER
August 24, 2019 8 pm
Tickets: $50+
The Hungtinton Library, San Marino, CA
MUSE/IQUE concerts are always a blast. Some of the best produced outdoor concerts I’ve been a part of.
RESONANT BODIES FESTIVAL DAY TWO:
Set with Ted Hearne
September 4, 2019 7:30 pm
Roulette, Brooklyn, NY
I’m so stoked for this new band and collaboration helmed by composer vocalist Ted Hearne and rounded out by Ashley Bathgate, Nathan Koci, Taylor Levine, and Ron Wiltrout.
SpacePants at Spectrum
Beaming down to Brooklyn
September 5, 2019 9 pm
Tickets: $15 (sold at the door only)
Spectrum, Brooklyn, NY
SpacePants is landing in New York for the first time. Get ready to sing the Mansplaining Canon, be serenaded by Jen and Diana, and OBEY THE TUBE.
Silence at Descanso
Performing Thorvaldsdottir
September 21, 2019 7:30 pm
Descanso Gardens, California
A new experimental music series at Descanso Gardens. I’ll be performing a stunning work for viola, cello, harp, piano, percussion, and electronics.
So You Think You Can Hindemith:
Hindemith Recording Fundraiser Concert
June 29, 2019 8 pm
Tickets: $25+
Villa Aurora, Pacific Palisades, CA
Villa Aurora has generously provided support including the location for my upcoming recordings of the seven Hindemith Sonatas. This concert will be an event to raise the last bit of funds we need to appropriately pay everyone involved and publicize this project. Come celebrate my original viola hero, Paul Hindemith!!
Performing Hearne with Hearne
November 21 and 22, 2019
8 pm
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Continuing this awesome avante-art-rock collaboration with Ted, Ashley, Ron, Taylor, and Nathan.