Dianne Springfield
Applied Cello
Bio
Dianne Springfield enjoys a versatile career as a performer and educator. As a performer she plays with the Pueblo Symphony Orchestra and local jazz group Camarada 320. As an educator she has a private cello studio and coaches youth string ensembles. Her teaching style focuses on proper body mechanics and technique as well as developing one’s own musical creativity. During high school she attended Interlochen Arts Academy where she had the honors of participating in master classes with Lynn Harrell and Nathaniel Rosen as well as performing a live radio broadcast of the Saint Saens Cello Concerto. She began her college studies at the University of Southern California School of Music, studying with the great pedagogues Gabor Rejto and Eleanor Schoenfeld. She completed her Bachelor of Art degree in Music at the University of California at Berkeley where she studied ethnomusicology with Dr. Bonnie Wade. It was during her studies at Berkeley that she expanded her classical training to include interests in global music cultures. She has also explored electric music technology and plays a 5-string Jensen electric cello with a loop-station.