Diana Mino is a composer and singer-songwriter living in Austin, Texas. Originally from the Philadelphia area, she received her B.A.'s in Music and in Philosophy from New York University in 2005. She then moved to Paris, France to pursue post-graduate study in composition, orchestration, counterpoint, and piano at the École Normale de Musique de Paris. Her works have been performed in New York City, Paris and Austin.
In addition to privately teaching piano, music theory and composition, Diana is working on her Master's Degree at the University of Texas and getting her singing and songwriting back in action. Her current projects include the setting of a poem by Princeton, NJ-based artist, David Bush, for Pierrot ensemble plus percussion and three singers, as well as the composition of her first electronic piece, broken.
On these four matters we cannot agree..., for solo bass and dancer, will be performed as part of the collaborative Cohen New Works Festival in Austin, TX in early April. This spring, AS-Q, a string quartet, and In the night, for high female voice, violoncello and electronics, will be performed as part of the UT Composers Collective, Wet Ink.
Check back this spring for recordings and video of her latest works, as well as an orchestral cue from the Universal Pictures 2005 movie, Serenity, composed and recorded in 2008 as part of the NYU/ASCAP Foundation Film Scoring Workshop in Memory of Buddy Baker.