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Gabriela Diaz

A champion of contemporary music, violinist Gabriela Díaz has performed with major ensembles such as the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, the International Contemporary Ensemble, and Boston Musica Viva. A survivor of childhood cancer, Díaz is dedicated to supporting cancer research and treatment, creating the Boston Hope Ensemble, which performs in hospitals throughout the Boston region, as well as mounting charity concerts for research organizations. In 2024, she joined the famed Kronos Quartet as second violinist. Díaz grew up in Columbus, Georgia, in a very musical household. Her parents and two older brothers, Roberto and Andrés, are all musicians. Gabriela began piano lessons with her mother at five and violin with her father, Manuel Díaz, the following year. Shortly before her 16th birthday, she was diagnosed with Hodgkin's Disease, a lymphatic cancer, and began treatment immediately. Unable to practice during this time, she found solace in recordings of classical music and support from her family and high school friends. Following a year of treatment, Díaz realized that she wanted to become a musician and use that gift to help those in similar situations. She attended the New England Conservatory for her bachelor's (2003) and master's (2005) degrees, studying with James Buswell. In 2003, Díaz won a competition with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project to perform John Zorn's violin concerto Contes des Fees in January 2004, beginning a fruitful collaboration that has included numerous concerts and has featured Díaz on several BMOP recordings. 2004 also saw Díaz win a grant from the Albert Schweitzer Foundation, which she used to form the Boston Hope Ensemble and began to organize chamber concerts at Boston-area hospital cancer wards. Her Boston Hope Ensemble later became part of the chamber music and community outreach organization Winsor Music. In 2009, Díaz made her recording debut, joining pianist Byron Schenkman and cellist Alexei Yupanqui Gonzales on an album of Mozart piano trios. In 2012, she became a professor at Wellesley College while teaching concurrently at Bard's College Longy School of Music. She also taught at the New England Conservatory and the Schwob School of Music at Columbus State University. Along with the BMOP, she has been a member of several contemporary music groups, including the Ludovico Ensemble, Dinosaur Annex, and Boston Musica Viva. In 2014, she was featured on the BMOP album Lou Harrison: La Koro Sutro, performing that composer's Suite for violin with American gamelan. In 2020, Díaz became the co-artistic director of Winsor Music, and when the COVID-19 pandemic rose, Winson Music and members of the Eureka Ensemble founded Boston Hope Music, recording music videos for patients and medical staff at the Boston Hope Medical Center. Throughout her career, Díaz has worked on new music with many major contemporary composers such as Frederic Rzewski, Unsuk Chin, Joan Tower, and Roger Reynolds. In 2022, she joined the BMOP once again on a recording of Reynolds' violin works. In 2024, the Kronos Quartet announced that Díaz would replace longtime second violinist John Sherba following the group's 50th anniversary season.
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