Diane Lesser - Orchestra Personnel Manager

Diane Lesser is the principal oboist and personnel manager for the Voices of Ascension Orchestra. One of the top studio recording oboists in the country, she is the principal oboist of the New York Pops, Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra, and the Greenwich Symphony and Chamber Players. She performs regularly with dozens of New York City-area orchestras and choruses, and at prestigious summer music festivals across the country. 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 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.

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