Professional-in-Residence
Collaborative Piano
School of Music
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803-2504
P: 225.578.7092
F: 225.578.2562
E: diannefrazer@lsu.edu
Dianne Fraze is recognized globally as a premiere collaborative pianist. Known for her wit and style on and off stage, she exudes an energy and an excitement that is both irresistible and endearing. She has performed with a “who’s who” of international artists, and has performed in Weill Recital Hall in Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, and Merkin Hall. According to Branford Marsalis, “
Dianne is one bad-ass pianist!!”
Dianne is a principal pianist for the National Flute Association, International Society of Bassists, and World Bass Festival in Poland, and has performed at the International Hornists Society, the International Trumpet Guild and the International Clarinet Association conventions. In 2008, she was an adjudicator for the Dranoff International Two Piano Competition. The ISB gave Dianne its highest recommendation and praise: “
She has become indispensable to the success of our events… gives a hundred percent… puts her collaborators at ease.” In the Winter 2003 edition of Double Bassist magazine, she was featured in the regular column
Life in the Day. Bass World magazine also featured her in their 2008 calendar. Dianne holds two performance degrees and has studied with Canadian pianist George Haddad. She was a two-time Fischoff finalist, and for many years enjoyed the two-piano repertoire with her duo, the Cross-Meidar Duo.
Today, Dianne lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where she sits on the faculty of Louisiana State University. She has enjoyed a multi-faceted career as a college professor, symphony pianist, opera repetiteur, adjudicator, church organist, and solo pianist, but her favorite roles remain those of mother, grandmother, sister, aunt, niece…and friend.
