Diana Baroni

A musician between two worlds, Diana Baroni is a flautist and singer currently appearing in the most prestigious festivals of the Baroque and New Traditional Music scenes.

Originally from Argentina, she studied music and diverse instruments: flute, guitar and singing.

In 1985 she came for the first time to Europe obtaining an scholarship from the international Menuhin Music Academy. When she returned to Buenos Aires she began her professional music career, specializing in the contemporary repertory, notably in the productions of the Colon Theatre Experimental Centre, Buenos Aires, under the direction of composer Gerardo Gandini.
She was a founding member of the ensemble Hallowe’en where she played and sang the creations of American avant-garde artists such as John Cage, Charles Ives, Morton Feldmann and world premières from young composers.

Living in Europe since 1995 she studied baroque transverse flute with Wilbert Hazelzet and early music at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis with Jesper Christensen. At the Sweelink Conservatorium of Amsterdam she received the Soloist Diploma in 1999 as a student of Jed Wentz.

Together with Pablo Valetti and Céline Frisch she is founding member of the French baroque ensemble Café Zimmermann with whom she regularly performs as a soloist. Their recordings of Bach complete instrumental pieces have been celebrated by the specialized press as the most exciting interpretations.
For years she devoted herself to the study and performance of the complete sonatas for flute or violin by Johannes Mattheson, Der Brauchbare Virtuoso together with Dirk Boerner, recording the whole collection (Alpha 2003) and been awarded the best chamber music album by the BBC Music Magazine. Recently they record their first volume dedicated to Bach Flute Sonatas (Ma Recordings, 2011)

Her passion for Afro-Amerindian music dates back to her Amsterdam period. She met Paraguayan harpist Lincoln Almada who encouraged her to sing again. This meeting led to the discovery and research into oral traditional music. Their first album ‘Son de los Diablos’ (Alpha 2003) was a critically acclaimed success.
Invited to be “Artist in Residence” at the Espacio Infoculture in Huesca, Spain she investigated further into a new repertoire, illustrated in 'Nuevos Cantares del Peru' (Blue Art Records, 2006) and creating the Diana Baroni Trio. For their third recording 'Flor de Verano' (Pao Records 2009) Diana invited the kora player and composer Tunde Jegede.
With the popular Brodsky Quartet she established an artistic collaboration to explore the repertoire rooted in afro-Hispanic traditions from the colonies in South America.

Diana Baroni’s tracks

• Llora tus penas (tradition oral, Argentina) by Diana Baroni
• Florcita de aleli (tradition oral, Argentine) by Diana Baroni
• Quanto sabedes amar (Martin Codax) by Diana Baroni
• Ay luna / Clarao di Lua (Juan del Encina / traditionnel Brésil) by Diana Baroni
• Que he sacado con quererte (Violeta Parra) by Diana Baroni
• Coraçao Vagabundo (Tom Jobim, live performance w/ Jean Louis Almosnino) by Diana Baroni
• Cantate BWV 210 'Schweigt die Flöten' BACH by Diana Baroni
• LA MACORINA (Chavela Vargas) live at Pirineos Sur by Diana Baroni
• Song of the waterfalls (by Tunde Jegede) by Diana Baroni
• Nightmare / Ay Gitana que adevinas (Cancionero de Elvas) by Diana Baroni