Diane Kolin

Vivaldi and Mozart at Carnegie Hall
2025-05-24 13:00 - 15:00 (America/Toronto) | Carnegie Hall, 57th Street & 7th Ave, New York, NY, 10019, United States
I will be one of the singers of the York University Singers ensemble, directed by Lisette Canton, who will conduct the Vivaldi. We will also perform the Mozart with Wen Chin Liu-Young.

On Saturday, May 24, 2025, 1:00 PM
Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall
New York New England Symphonic Ensemble
with the following participating choruses:
Heritage Chorale, Oak Park, IL (Wen Chin Liu-Young, Director) NeoVoce Philharmonic Choir, Mississauga, Ontario, CANADA (Leo Li, Director) The Ebell of Los Angeles Chorale, Los Angeles, CA (Yu Hang Tan, Director) Waukesha Choral Union, Waukesha, WI (Danielle Bridges, Director) York University Singers, Toronto, Ontario, CANADA (Lisette Canton, Director)
Program:
Vesperae solennes de confessore, K.339, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – conducted by Wen Chin Liu-Young
Gloria in D Major, RV 589, Antonio Vivaldi – conducted by Lisette Canton
Tickets: https://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2025/05/24/New-England-Symphonic-Ensemble-0100PM

St. Laurenzen Mittwoch-Mittags-Konzert: Women's Month French-chansons with Diane Kolin and Bernhard Ruchti
2025-03-12 12:15 - 12:45 (America/Toronto) | St. Laurenzen Church, Kirche St. Laurenzen, Marktgasse 25, St. Gallen, 9000, Switzerland
French-chansons repertoire for Women’s Month in St. Laurenzen, on March 12, 2025, with Diane Kolin (voice) and Bernhard Ruchti (piano, organ).
The program includes chansons by Barbara, Maurane, Juliette Gréco, Françoise Hardy, Céline Dion and Isabelle Boulay.
Free entrance.

Bernhard Ruchti Swiss Tour 2025
2025-02-05 - 2025-03-01 | Switzerland, Switzerland
The Swiss pianist, musicologist and composer Bernhard Ruchti will tour Switzerland from February 5, 2025 to March 1st, 2025. I will accompany him as a touring agent.

Tempo is the pulse of music. Since 2018, Swiss pianist Bernhard Ruchti has been exploring and interpreting this pulse – and uncovering surprising new ways of interpreting classical music. His work is based on historical research into one of the most important interpreters of the 19th century: Franz Liszt.
Ludwig van Beethoven’s great Hammerklavier Sonata Opus 106 is the focus of Bernhard Ruchti’s tour of Switzerland. He interprets it in the duration handed down by Franz Liszt himself: “presque une heure”. That is noticeably longer than today’s average. For the interpretation, it means one thing above all: more time, more breath and more richness of detail.
Experience Beethoven’s Hammerklavier Sonata, one of the core works of the A Tempo project, in a new interpretation, complemented and contrasted with works by Franz Liszt and Bernhard Ruchti.
More information and tickets: https://www.bernhardruchti.com/en/tour/

Chanson-Vesper - Organ Festival in St. Gallen, Switzerland
2024-09-06 18:00 - 19:00 (Europe/Zurich) | St. Laurenzen Church, Kirche St. Laurenzen, Marktgasse 25, St. Gallen, 9000, Switzerland
A Laurenzen Vespers combining the depth of French chansons and spiritual texts. With Diane Kolin (vocals), Pastor Kathrin Bolt, Philipp Kamm and Bernhard Ruchti (organ).
Free event.
Full program of the festival (in German): https://www.laurenzen.ch/festivals

Organ Festival in St. Gallen, Switzerland
2024-09-01 - 2024-09-15 | St. Laurenzen Church, Kirche St. Laurenzen, Marktgasse 25, St. Gallen, 9000, Switzerland
After the September 2023 inauguration and April 2024 book launch festivities, this new edition will feature local and international organists and artists.
The new surround organ from Orgelbau Goll is celebrated with two annual festivals: a two-week autumn festival and a weekend festival in spring. The 2024 automn edition will take place from September 1st to 15th, with a rich and top-class musical program. You can reserve tickets for the concerts by Bernhard Ruchti, Sophie-Véronique Cauchefer-Choplin (Saint-Sulpice, Paris) and Jonathan Scott (London), and get information all the other events. The concerts are free.
In addition to a voice and organ concert on September 6, I will be the international musicologist in house, interviewing artists during the festival.
Program (in German): https://www.laurenzen.ch/festivals
Read the article published in St. Gallen 24 (in German): https://stgallen24.ch/articles/255672-orgel-festival-in-der-laurenzen

PRIVATE EVENT – Concert-workshop with Xenia Concerts: Michael Bridge & Diane Kolin at Safehaven, in Toronto
2024-07-10 15:00 - 17:00 (America/Toronto) | Ontario
Xenia Concerts makes a private appearance at Safehaven with a family-friendly concert that embraces neurodiversity and disability! This collaboration between Xenia Concerts and Safehaven provides an inspiring musical experience to the organization’s attendees!
This concert has been designed to be enjoyable and accessible for neurodivergent listeners, those with disabilities, and their families and caregivers.
More information on Xenia Concerts’ website

Tamara Gordon Foundation Fundraising Gala
2024-05-25 16:00 - 20:00 (America/Toronto) | Malvern Christian Assembly, 6705 Sheppard Ave E, Scarborough, ON, M1B 3C1, Canada
I am performing today at the Tamara Gordon Foundation Fundraising Gala. This foundation awarded me a scholarship a few months ago. Come and support if you can!

MHRI Conference: Music, Health, and the Community, in Ottawa
2024-05-21 - 2024-05-24 | Ontario
Details to come soon. ArtsAbly will participate in a roundtable on May 21, 2024.
2024 conference announcement

PODIUM 2024 Montreal - Choral Canada festival
2024-05-16 - 2024-05-19 | Delta Hotels by Marriott Montreal, 475 Av. du Président-Kennedy, Montréal, QC, H3A 1J7, Canada
PODIUM 2024, Canada’s national bilingual choral Conference and Festival, is the top meeting place for Canada’s choral and group singing arts sector and community.
I will have several hats during the event:

I will represent the Student Chapter committee and will host two events: the student chapter presentation session, and the students’ reception.
I will present ArtsAbly and animate a discussion about accessibility in choral music (bilingual event)

More info on the website: https://www.podium2024.ca/

York University Concert and Chamber Choirs – Winter 2024 Concert
2024-04-24 19:30 (America/Toronto) | Tribute Communities Recital Hall, 83 York Boulevard, York University, Accolade East Building, Toronto, ON, M3J 2S5, Canada
After the two initial concerts were cancelled due to the strike at York University, we decided to perform parts of our repertoire in a joint concert on April 24 at 7:30 pm.
We will perform W. A. Mozart’s Missa brevis in F, K. 192, and Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem, Op. 48. Conductor: Lisette Canton.
More details and tickets: https://events.yorku.ca/events/york-university-concert-and-chamber-choirs-april24/

Bach: Markus Passion, BWV 247
2024-03-29 19:30 - 22:30 (America/Toronto) | Metropolitan United Church, 56 Queen Street East, Toronto, ON, Canada
Mystery and grandeur meet in Met’s 2024 presentation of J.S. Bach’s long-lost St. Mark Passion. We know that Bach performed St Mark Passion settings several times in different versions while in Leipzig. The music for the final 1744 performance is lost, but thanks to the recent rediscovery of a libretto booklet and other evidence, Dutch musicologist Robert Koolstra reconstructed the work in 2017. Don’t miss this, the second Canadian performance of Bach and Koolstra’s masterpiece. The Met Festival Choir, with Philippe Gagné as Evangelist and Clarence Frazer as Jesus, Toronto’s leading period-instrument players, conducted by Jonathan Oldengarm. Pre-concert talk at 6:30 p.m.; organ prelude at 7:15 p.m.; concert begins at 7:30 p.m.
Interesting article on the project: https://www.ludwig-van.com/toronto/2024/03/06/preview-music-met-presents-second-canadian-performance-bachs-st-markus-passion/
Tickets: https://www.rcmusic.com/events-and-performances/music-at-met-presents-js-bach-st-mark-passion-(1)

Cancelled - York University Concert and Chamber Choirs – Winter 2024 Concert
2024-03-26 19:30 - 21:00 (America/Toronto) | Tribute Communities Recital Hall, 83 York Boulevard, York University, Accolade East Building, Toronto, ON, M3J 2S5, Canada
Due to the ongoing strike at York University, this concert is cancelled.

Designing Sound Futures & CAMIN Symposium
2024-03-23 - 2024-03-24 | Ontario
Two days symposium with musicians with disabilities who are working on the future of sound and music. ArtsAbly will be among the guests. There will be a presentation-performance on Saturday and a round table on Sunday. This symposium in by invitation only.

Cancelled - York University Chamber Choir – Winter 2024 Concert
2024-03-19 19:30 - 21:00 (America/Toronto) | Tribute Communities Recital Hall, 83 York Boulevard, York University, Accolade East Building, Toronto, ON, M3J 2S5, Canada

"The Story of ArtsAbly: a Discussion with Diane Kolin on Disability and Accessibility in the Arts." Lecture at St. John's College, University of British Columbia
2024-03-13 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Toronto) | Ontario
Presentation of ArtsAbly to Masters’, PhD, and Postdoc students from across the disciplines at St. John’s College, University of British Columbia.

Cancelled - York University Chamber Choir – Composer Showcase Concert
2024-03-12 12:30 - 13:30 (America/Toronto) | Tribute Communities Recital Hall, 83 York Boulevard, York University, Accolade East Building, Toronto, ON, M3J 2S5, Canada

Community Music Schools of Toronto Winter recital February 2024
2024-02-10 11:30 - 12:30 (America/Toronto) | Aki Studio in Daniel Spectrum, 585 Dundat Street East, Toronto, ON, M5A 2B7, Canada
Two of my students will be performing at the Regent Park CMST Recital on February 10, 2024, at 11:30 am, at Aki Studio in Daniel Spectrum, 585 Dundat Street East, Toronto. Come and say hi!

Open Stage Night with Jet Puppy at C'est What
2024-02-07 20:00 - 23:00 (America/Toronto) | C’est What, 67 Front Street East, Toronto, ON, M5E 1B5, Canada
C’est What is happy to announce an open stage night, hosted by local band, Jet Puppy. I will be there on February 7. Join us! Sign up begins at 7:30pm.

Lecture at Western University
2024-02-07 18:30 - 19:30 (America/Toronto) | Ontario
Lecture at the Don Wright Faculty of Music at Western University.

THE GREAT PAUSE at the Isabel Bader Theatre with CMST
2024-01-20 14:30 - 15:30 (America/Toronto) | Isabel Bader Theatre, Victoria University (U of T), 93 Charles St W, Toronto, ON, M5S 2C7, Canada
I will be among the teachers and students performing together for this show.

THE GREAT PAUSE is a musical archive of how the pandemic impacted the CMST communities in Regent Park and Jane Finch, and the ways that they made meaning of this unusual time. Featuring both solo and ensemble performances by Community Music Schools of Toronto students and faculty, this 13-song snapshot of our school community is based directly on interviews with parents, students, teachers and members of the immediate neighborhoods.

Join on us Saturday, January 20th at the Isabel Bader Theatre as we explore both the challenges and the beauty of what our communities made of THE GREAT PAUSE of our lifetime.

Visit www.communitymusic.org/events for more details.

This event is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.

Zoom Lecture: "A Dive into Music and Disability, from Theory to Practice" - University of Texas at Austin
2023-11-30 14:00 - 15:00 (America/Toronto) | Ontario
The Division of Musicology and Ethnomusicology at the Butler School of Music presents a Zoom lecture by Diane Kolin, “A Dive into Music and Disability, from Theory to Practice.”

Free and open to the public. Please register at the Zoom link provided: https://sites.utexas.edu/musethno/events/zoom-lecture-diane-kolin-a-dive-into-music-and-disability-from-theory-to-practice/

Diane Kolin is a PhD candidate in Musicology at York University, Toronto. Her diverse research interests include Critical Disability Studies, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Franz Liszt, and her dissertation focuses on professional musicians, composers, and music specialists with disabilities. She is the editor in chief of the Journal of the French Beethoven Society. The study of Beethoven’s deafness and Diane’s personal history led to her research in disability and music. Diane is also a voice teacher and a singer who advocates for more accessibility in orchestras, choirs, and music education.

Workshop at the University of Toronto Faculty of Music: Teaching & learning voice with a physical disability
2023-11-29 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Toronto) | University of Toronto, Faculty of Music, 80 Queens Park, Toronto, ON, M5S 2C5, Canada
I was invited to lead a two-hours workshop about teaching and learning voice with a physical disability by Prof. Lorna MacDonald, Lois Marshall Chair in Voice Studies at the University of Toronto. My workshop consisted of a one-hour presentation of frameworks and case studies in music and disability focused on voice, followed by a questions-answers period, and a workshop actively engaging the body, changing positions and balance constraints to discover other ways of positioning ourselves while singing.

Cavalcade of Lights at Nathan Phillips Square - Concert with Toronto Chinese Orchestra chamber ensemble
2023-11-25 15:30 - 16:00 (America/Toronto) | Nathan Phillips Square, 100 Queen St W, Toronto, ON, M5H 2N1, Canada
The annual Cavalcade of Lights presented by Desjardins Financial Group, will illuminate Nathan Phillips Square on Saturday, November 25. A chamber ensemble of Toronto Chinese Orchestra (erhu, guzheng, pipa, dizi, cello and voice) will perform from 3:30-4:00pm. Free,
Full program: https://www.toronto.ca/explore-enjoy/festivals-events/cavalcade-of-lights/

AMS-SMT (American Musicology Society-Society for Music Theory) Joint Meeting 2023
2023-11-09 - 2023-11-12 | Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel, 1550 Court Pl, Denver, CO, 80202, United States
The American Musicological Society (AMS) is holding its 89th Annual Meeting jointly with the Society for Music Theory (SMT) on 9-12 November 2023 in Denver, Colorado at the Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel.
Founded in 1934, AMS is a non-profit organization committed to advancing “research in the various fields of music as a branch of learning and scholarship.” The 2023 AMS Annual Meeting is a forum for the exploration of music and musicology and is made possible by the support and voluntary service of AMS committee members on the Committee on the Annual Meeting and Public Events, Program Committee, and the Performance Committee.
I will be a co-presenter during the “Disability Identity in Music Scholarship” Disability Committee Panel, organized by my colleagues Elizabeth McLain, from Virginia Tech, and Andrew Dell’Antonio, from University of Texas at Austin.
Recording of the event available on this link: https://utexas.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=594df832-ea05-4620-a8b2-b0be014b8e3d

The Music and Disability Study Group of the American Musicological Society is delighted to host six panelists for our session on Disability Identity in Music Scholarship at AMS/SMT-Denver (Friday, November 10, 2023 – 8:00pm–10:00pm Mountain Time (10 PM Eastern, 9 PM Central, 7 PM Pacific, 3 AM GMT), co-chaired by Elizabeth McLain and Andrew Dell’Antonio.
During the panel time, our participants will be providing brief summaries of their presentations, after which we will open to Q&A / conversation between those in attendance. CART captioning will be provided.
Here are the names of the presentations and presenters:Ethnography Through All Of Our Bodies:

Reconsidering Methodology through Disability Expertise – Emily Williams Roberts, University of Chicago
I got a right to be Mad: Madness in Beyoncé’s Lemonade – Samar Johnson, University of Kentucky
Perspective – Molly Joyce, University of Virginia
​Inclusive Music Workshops – Diane Kolin, York University
An Initial Exploration of Autistic, Synesthetic Queer Listening – Steph Ban, Independent Scholar
Crip-Punk! Exploring Disability and Liberation Through Music – Chris Wylie

Lecture at University of Texas at Austin - Performing with a different body: re-imagining music-making
2023-11-02 10:30 - 11:45 (America/Toronto) | University of Texas at Austin, 2515 Speedway, Austin, TX, 78712, United States
Lecture at the Musicking and Disability (MUS 379K) class – Prof. Andrew Dell’Antonio – University of Texas at Austin

Google Arts workshop for Google employees - Music and Disability: Assumptions in Education and Performance
2023-10-27 15:00 - 16:00 (America/Toronto) | Online
Private workshop for Google employees as part of Google Arts.

Joseph Haydn's "The Creation"
2023-10-15 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Toronto) | Blessed Trinity Church, 3228 Bavview Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, M2M 3R7, Canada
Presented by the Toronto Oratorio Society & the Blessed Trinity Choir, with orchestra.
Grace Quinsey, soprano – Gabriel / Eve
Ryan Downey, tenor – Uriel
John Holland, bass – Raphael / Adam
Karen Frank, Conductor
I was one of the alto section leads.

Organ Festival in St. Gallen, Switzerland
2023-09-03 - 2023-09-17 | St. Laurenzen Church, Kirche St. Laurenzen, Marktgasse 25, St. Gallen, 9000, Switzerland
My colleague and friend Bernhard Ruchti leads the fantastic Kuhn organ rehabilitation project in St. Laurenzen, St. Gallen, Switzerland. The new improved “Surround-Sound” instrument will be inaugurated in September 2023. The St. Laurenzen church will offer a three-weeks organ festival with distinguished guests from all over Europe. I will be onsite, helping the team with the French speaking visitors and performers.
More about Bernhard Ruchti: https://www.bernhardruchti.com/home-en/
More about the organ festival and its program (in German): https://www.laurenzen.ch/startet/

Salon Concert - Artist Residency at the Milkhouse in Prince Edward County
2023-07-05 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Toronto) | Milkhouse, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada
Salon concert at the Milkhouse in Prince Edward County, Ontario. Solo a cappella jazz concert.
“Diane Kolin is a French musicologist specialized in Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Liszt. In France, she is the editor in chief of the Beethoven journal of the French Beethoven Society and frequently travels all over Europe for research and conferences. She is also a jazz and classical singer and a voice teacher in Toronto. She is currently a PhD candidate in Musicology at York University, Toronto, and enjoying a short residency in Prince Edward County. Her musical offering will consist of jazz repertoire by Ella Fitzgerald and Nina Simone, from “Summertime” to “My Baby Just Cares For Me” and some French jazz.”

Children, Youth and Performance Conference 2023: "Disability and music: music education with adaptive instruments"
2023-06-17 - 2023-06-18 | Young People’s Theatre, 165 Front St East, Toronto, ON, M5A 3Z4, Canada
This conference is an exchange of knowledge between researchers, performers, educators, practitioners, and community organizers. Through a range of informative and interactive sessions, participants will discuss the present and future applications and implications of performance work with, by, for, and about children and youth. There will be a range of in-person events, panels, performances, and workshops spread out during the conference days. All presentations and workshop sessions take place on June 17th and 18th. This year’s conference is entirely in-person. Registrants will receive a full schedule of events closer to the conference dates. My presentation will take place on June 17th at 2:30 pm.
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Adaptive instruments are generally used to teach music to children with disabilities. This project has for objective to demonstrate that children with all abilities are receptive to alternative ways of learning. I believe that the discovery of adaptive instruments can open the mind of a student, whether it is a young child, a teenager, or a young adult. It can also propose other teaching methods to instructors.
The project consists of a series of workshops held between February and June 2023, allowing groups of music students of various ages to discover instruments and musical material made for musicians and singers with disabilities. The workshops are held in classrooms of the Community Music Schools of Toronto at Jane and Finch. Each participant takes part in one of the workshops. Participants of the choir workshop sing with adaptive content such as brail scores and learn lyrics in American Sign Language (ASL). Participants of the jam session workshop imagine instruments that can be played with a missing part of the body or use conventional instruments in a non-conventional way. Participants of the new technology workshop use devices such as an iPad with digital instruments or digital gloves connected to a computer system. During each workshop, students work together on a piece that will be performed in a recital at the Jane and Finch music school in June 2023, to show what they have learned during the workshops to an audience.
This research has received the support of York University’s Helen Carswell Chair in Community Engaged Research in the Arts, in partnership with Community Music Schools of Toronto at Jane and Finch.
More details and tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/children-youth-and-performance-conference-2023-tickets-546265634217
