Costa Rican-born cellist Diana Flores is an active orchestral/chamber musician and educator based in Cincinnati, OH. She performs regularly with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and Dayton Philharmonic and has performed with the Boston Pops, Grant Park Music Festival, Chautauqua Symphony, and Sarasota Orchestra, among others. She was a member of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago and has participated in summer festivals such as Tanglewood Music Center and Pacific Music Festival in Japan.
Diana has studied at the Longy School of Music (BM), the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University (MM), and the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati (AD). Her primary teachers include Mihail Jojatu, Richard Hirschl, and Ilya Finkelshteyn. She has performed in masterclasses for Yo-Yo Ma, and has studied chamber music with Emanuel Ax, Roger Tapping, and the Pacifica Quartet.
This season Diana joined Sphinx Virtuosi, a self-conducted string orchestra, with whom she recorded an album for Deutsche Grammophone to be released in July 2023.