Diana Wayburn (pianist/flautist/composer) attended the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and the University of Indiana’s Bloomington School of Music as a Piano Performance Major. She has worked as a jazz pianist, an accompanist and improviser for modern dance studios, and as a composer, musician, and arranger for numerous theater productions in NYC. She has composed choral works for services at St. Mark’s Church on the Bowery and has presented original work in NYC at Judson Memorial Church, The Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, The Gershwin Hotel, the Arts for Art “In Garden” series, Somethin’ Jazz Club, Firehouse Space, Silvana and Shrine.
She has just completed her 3rd CD “Dances of the World” which is a mix of world music (rhythms from Guinea and a tango) and classical music and jazz adapted for chamber orchestra. Of her CD "forces of nature" released in 2010 Bruce Gallanter of the Downtown Music Gallery commented “Diana Wayburn has provided us with a fine feast of intoxicating songs." Her CD “Ostinato And…” was given Honorable Mention for Best New Release 2008 in All About Jazz – NY, now The New York City Jazz Record.
Awards
2009 Meet the Composer Creative Connections Award
Exerpts from reviews for "Dances of the World"
“NYC is filled with great composers who rarely get the recognition they well
deserve. Ms. Wayburn is one such composer…The majority of this disc is
taken up by the "West African Suite" which is a sublime, elegant work…Quite a
fine… effort from one of New York's better under-recognized composers.”
Bruce Gallanter (Downtown Music Gallery)
"Composer/pianist/flutist Diana Wayburn’s lively, eclectic Dances of the World
Chamber Orchestra play indie classical party music. Wayburn’s kinetic
compositions draw from a vast array of global traditions
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Exerpts from reviews for "Dances of the World"
“NYC is filled with great composers who rarely get the recognition they well
deserve. Ms. Wayburn is one such composer…The majority of this disc is
taken up by the "West African Suite" which is a sublime, elegant work…Quite a
fine… effort from one of New York's better under-recognized composers.”
Bruce Gallanter (Downtown Music Gallery)
"Composer/pianist/flutist Diana Wayburn’s lively, eclectic Dances of the World
Chamber Orchestra play indie classical party music. Wayburn’s kinetic
compositions draw from a vast array of global traditions. She employs
interesting arrangements, unorthodox voicings and an ever-present element
of surprise..."
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