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Diane Walsh, pianist
Diane Walsh (born 16 August 1950) is an American classical pianist. She is currently a member of the piano faculty at Mannes College The New School For Music in New York City.

Her first piano teacher was her mother, Estelle Walsh. She later studied with Irwin Freundlich at the Juilliard School, which awarded her a B.M. degree and the Otto Storm Prize in 1971. She earned her M.M. degree in 1982 at Mannes, where she studied with Richard Goode and was awarded the Performance Prize.

In 1973, she won the Young Concerts Artists International Auditions, which led to her New York debut at the Hunter College Playhouse. She has won numerous other awards including the ARD International Piano Competition in Munich and the International Mozart Piano Competition in Salzburg.

Since 2007 Walsh has performed Beethoven's Diabelli Variations live on stage in three productions by the Tectonic Theater Project of Moisés Kaufman's play, "33 Variations": at Arena Stage, La Jolla Playhouse and the Eugene O'Neill Playhouse on Broadway in New York City. The New York production starred Jane Fonda and had 115 performances between 9 February and 21 May, 2009.

She has given recitals at the 92 Street Y, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Merkin Concert Hall and the Miller Theatre in New York City, the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., Orchestra Hall of the Symphony Center in Chicago, Wigmore Hall in London, the Concertgebouw]in Amsterdam, Philharmonic Hall in St. Petersburg, Suk Hall and Dvorak Hall of the Rudolfinum in Prague, and the Mozarteum in Salzburg; concerto appearances include those with the San Francisco Symphony, the Indianapolis Symphony, the St. Louis Symphony, the Austin, Syracuse and Delaware symphonies, the American Symphony Orchestra in New York, and the radio symphonies of Munich, Frankfurt, Stuttgart and Berlin.

She has released fifteen discs of diverse repertoire for Sony Classical, Nonesuch Records, Koch, Newport, Stereophile, Composers Recordings, Inc., Biddulph Recordings and Jonathan Digital Recordings.

From 1999 to 2004 she was Artistic Director of the Skaneateles Festival in the Finger Lakes region of New York.

She is a member of a quintet, La Fenice, with Peggy Pearson, oboe, Catherine Cho, violin, Maria Lambros, viola and Marcy Rosen, cello; and a trio, the Walsh-Drucker-Cooper Trio, with Eugene Drucker, violin and Roberta Cooper, cello.