Diana is a highly versatile concert performer, equally at home in the recital room, cathedral or concert hall. Her international concert performances involve a wide range of conductors including Nicholas McGegan, Sir Roger Norrington, Ivor Bolton and Harry Bicket. She is an experienced exponent of historical informed performance, and has worked with many specialist groups and conductors, including Trevor Pinnock, Matthew Halls, Robert King, Christian Curnyn and Vaclav Luks.


Alongside historical performance, Diana is known as an oratorio specialist, with high profile appearances including Bach's St Matthew Passion with Trevor Pinnock at the BBC Proms, Elgar's Dream of Gerontius at many English cathedrals including York Minster and Ely, Handel's Messiah with Huddersfield Choral Society and Tippett's A Child of Our Time at the SAGE. She has performed in many major concert venues across Europe, including the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, the KKL in Luzern and the Tonhalle, Zurich. On the concert platform recent performances include Copland's In the Beginning at Chichester Cathedral, Elgar's Sea Pictures in Guildford Cathedral and with the San Francisco Ballet at the Royal Opera House and Berlioz's Nuits d'Ete at the Sage. Future highlights include Mahler's Symphony no.2 in St Andrew's Hall, Norwich, Brahms' Alto Rhapsody at Leith Hill Music Festival and Bach's St John Passion at the Barbican, London.


Diana is an enthusiastic and critically acclaimed vocal recitalist and is becoming a leading exponent of English song. She is a regular performer at the Weekend of English Song at Ludlow, both as a singer and giver of lecture recitals. Her programme, 'A Celebration of Kathleen Ferrier - her life, music & letters' has been endorsed by the Kathleen Ferrier Society and was reviewed as 'unmissable' by Paul Campion, author of 'Ferrier - A Career Recorded.' She represented England in the recital series for International Young Artists at Opera de Lille presenting a programme celebrating the best of English song. Other recent performances include Berlioz mélodies at theTonhalle, Zurich, a Liederabend at Göttingen International Handelfestspiel with Steven Devine at the fortepiano and Schönberg's Das Buch der Hängenden Gärten at Oxford Lieder Festival with pianist John Reid. Future plans include performances across the UK of 'A Celebration of Kathleen Ferrier - her life, music & letters' and a return to Celebrating English Song at Tardebigge in August 2011 with a programme celebrating English female composers. This programme will feature the world première of new songs by Lynne Plowman and is due to be recorded as a CD in Spring 2011.


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