Diana Salesky
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With an impressive and diverse career in classical music, Diana Salesky writes about that subject for Arts Knoxville. She has been a regular contributor to violinist.com since 2017. A lifelong violinist, Salesky pursued both violin performance and vocal studies through graduate school at the University of Texas at Austin. Her professional career began with New York City Opera, singing in the regular chorus and performing small roles. For a decade, she served as vocal adjudicator for the LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts (“Fame”) in Manhattan and was a consultant to the New York State Board of Education’s arts program. She appears regularly as alto soloist with the Arkansas Choral Society and members of the Arkansas Symphony. She recently sang the alto solos in Messiah with the KSO. Diana and her siblings created a non-profit organization, Amadeus Chamber Ensemble (ACE), that produces classical music concerts in Arkansas, Colorado, and Tennessee

Classical Kids – Sparking the Love of Music in the Next Generation

BY DIANA SALESKY   Creating the next generation of attentive, informed, sympathetic classical music listeners is a big job—one that most performing arts organizations grapple with (at a minimum) or take on as a cause (at best). While the obvious…

Knoxville Symphony Orchestra Announces Artist Switch: Violinist Blake Pouliot

BY DIANA SALESKY   It can be disappointing to learn that an artist you truly wanted to hear has had to cancel, which is the case with violinist Philippe Quint, who was scheduled to appear with the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra…

Amadeus Chamber Ensemble: A Venezuelan Connection

BY DIANA SALESKY   It was old home week at the Amadeus Chamber Ensemble rehearsal this week—but not what one  might expect. Three Venezuelan musicians found themselves in the same rehearsal space in the middle of Knoxville: soprano María Brea,…

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