DIANA COHEN, Violin

Violinist Diana Cohen leads a multifaceted career as a concertmaster, chamber musician, soloist,and curator. Appointed concertmaster of the Calgary Philharmonic in 2012, she has appeared as soloist with the symphonies of Richmond, Charleston, and Kalamazoo, the National Repertory Orchestra, Iris Orchestra, and Red {an orchestra}. She has also served as guest concertmaster with the Rochester Philharmonic and Phoenix Symphony.

Diana regularly performs with the Grammy-winning Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and East Coast Chamber Orchestra, and has appeared with the International Sejong Soloists, The Knights, The Cleveland Orchestra, and New York Philharmonic. She has collaborated with members of the Guarneri, Juilliard, Miró, Cleveland, and Parker Quartets. She can be heard on several of Orpheus’s recordings as well as with her father, clarinetist Franklin Cohen, on Osvaldo Golijov’s The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind.

 Diana comes from a musical family and performs worldwide with her husband Roman Rabinovich, as well as with her father Franklin, longtime principal clarinet of The Cleveland Orchestra. Her brother Alexander is Principal Timpanist of the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra and her late mother, Lynette Diers Cohen, was a distinguished bassoonist. Diana and Roman’s three-year-old daughter Noa is also an avid music lover.