Carolyn Diamond



Active as both pianist and pipe organist, Carolyn Diamond performs regularly in the metropolitan areas of New York, Connecticut and Minnesota. As a recitalist, she has been praised for her buoyant style and interpretive vigor, and has the reputation of delivering passionate and colorful performances. She has recently released a piano recording, “Scandinavian Suite,” which will be launched in May, 2012.
   
Carolyn is a frequent performer at the TCU/Van Cliburn Piano Institute in Texas where she was a winner of the 2003 Piano Concerto Competition, performing with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra.

Currently Staff Musician/Associate Organist and Lead Musician for the Saturday Evening Service at Central Lutheran Church in Minneapolis, she is active as a performing member of the American Guild of Organists (has served the on the Executive Board of the TCAGO), and the National Arts Club (NYC). She has worked with the American Symphony Orchestra, performed under the auspices of the Schubert Club of Fairfield County, and participates as an accompanist, having performed with soloists from the Metropolitan and New York City Opera Companies. She also leads workshops on liturgy, hymn playing and technical challenges related to the piano and organ.

She received her B.A. degree from the University of Minnesota where she studied piano with Bernard Weiser and organ with Heinrich Fleischer.  Postgraduate work includes keyboard studies with Howard Don Small, Dean Billmeyer at the University of Minnesota, Kent Tritle of the Juilliard School, and Igor Resnianski of Westchester University. A winner of the Young Artist Competition, she was also a recipient of the Dimitri Metropolous Scholarship.

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