Diane Lesser

Diane Lesser, one of the top studio recording oboists in the country, is the principal oboist of the New York Pops, Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra, Voices of Ascension, Oratorio Society, Sacred Music at a Sacred Space at St. Ignatius Loyola, Great Music in a Great Space at St. John the Divine, National Chorale, and the Greenwich Symphony and Chamber Players. Diane holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from the Juilliard School and Queens College. Active in the world of commercial music, she can be heard on recent recordings accompanying Cynthia Erivo, Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga, Madonna, Amy Winehouse, Lena Park, Barry Manilow and Paul Simon. She has recorded for movie soundtracks and hundreds of TV and radio commercials, and performed at such diverse venues as the Grammy Awards, Sesame Street, the 1992 Olympics in France, Z100’s Jingle Ball, The White House, and as soloist at Carnegie Hall with Alexander Schneider.