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Diane Daly

Ireland

Performance degrees from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London and Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester. Masters and Performance PhD, University of Limerick.
Dalcroze Eurhythmics educator
1st European String Player to be accredited as a Licensed Body Mapping Educator 2021.

Diane is in demand as a chamber musician, director and improvisor at home and abroad. She enjoys devising her own work, and has been invited to perform world premieres of works by leading Irish composers including Sam Perkins, Linda Buckley and Deirdre Gribbin. In other genres she has performed and recorded alongside many of the biggest names in rock and leads her own gypsy jazz trio.

Passionate about education, her teaching focus is on the development of the whole musician as a creative artist, fostering joy-filled music making, autonomy and self-expression. She is a qualified Dalcroze Eurhythmics teacher and recently became Europe’s first accredited string playing Body-Mapper.

In 2022, her doctoral research was awarded the inaugural Aloys Fleischmann prize for outstanding practice based research, developing the concepts of embodiment, presence, creativity and connection in string playing.

Diane is currently Head of Strings at the Royal Irish Academy of Music. www.dianedaly.com