About
Diane Grubbe freelances throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. She is a regular performer with Pocket Opera and has also appeared with the Stockton Symphony, Symphony Silicon Valley, Lamplighters, Festival Opera, and many others. With a special interest in contemporary music and new performance techniques on flute, piccolo, alto and bass flutes, Diane enjoys improvising as well as studying and performing new works. She is a member of the contemporary music ensemble sfSound, and has been a guest performer with Earplay, the Eco Ensemble, Santa Cruz New Music Works, and the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players.
Diane holds Bachelor and Masters degrees in flute performance from San Francisco State University and the San Francisco Conservatory, respectively. Her instructors included Paul Renzi, Lloyd Gowen and Tim Day of the San Francisco Symphony; and Barbara Chaffe and Jim Walker of the San Francisco Ballet and Opera Orchestras. She has performed in masterclasses with Julius Baker, Heinz Holliger, Robert Dick and Robert Stallman.
The premiere of composer/guitarist Giovanni Piacentini’s Los Murmullos at the Mex-I-Am festival, San Francisco 2015.
Recordings
Diane appears on a number of recordings, as soloist and in ensemble.
- Matthew Edwards & The Unfortunates, Hark
- 100 Years of Mexican Music for Wind Quintet with Quinteto Latino
- Oxbow, The Narcotic Story
- Michael Bannett’s Beautiful Soup
- Ragazzi Boys Chorus, Canciones de Alabanza
- Laura Sullivan’s Mystical America
- The Baroque Concerto with the Calabasas Chamber Orchestra
Education
Diane is a graduate of San Francisco State University and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Her instructors have included Paul Renzi, Lloyd Gowen and Tim Day of the San Francisco Symphony. She has performed in masterclasses with Julius Baker, Heinz Holliger, Robert Stallman and Robert Dick.
Diane Grubbe has appeared as a soloist with the Siena Music Festival in Italy, the San Francisco Concerto Orchestra, L’Orchestre de Notre Dame in San Francisco and the Calabasas Chamber Orchestra in Southern California, with whom she recorded the Vivaldi Piccolo Concerto for their CD The Baroque Concerto.