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Diane is a workaholic, with three full-time careers at once. In addition to
concerts and touring with the CQ and teaching at Bard College,
she teaches a class of more than 30 students at a private school in Manhattan.
Diane is Administrative Director of the Soundfest Music Festival and personally attends to all
fund-raising, publicity, scheduling and Quartet Institute headaches. She writes and edits the Quartet
Quarterly, as well as another monthly newsletter. Now and again Ms. Chaplin finds time for a non-Quartet performance, such as her special appearances with the Flying Karamazov Brothers, with Mikhail Baryshnikov, and as a piccolo player with the Fighting Instruments of Karma Marching Chamber Band/Orchestra. She has appeared many times in recitals and as a concerto soloist, and holds a special prize from the International Cello Competition in Vina del Mar, Chile, and a certificate from the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. A composer, arranger and writer, she published two volumes of student cello music in 2008, and is aat work on the Colorado Quartet memoirs, entitled "What Time Does the Concert Start?" Diane is an official Espresso Snob, owns both travel and giant non-portable machines, and never leaves home without one; she even owns one that plugs into the car. She was born and raised in LA (is an official Valley Girl), joined the Quartet in 1988, and now splits her time between her 3 cats in the lovely town of Englewood, NJ, and her alternate family in Portland, OR. |
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