Diana Gannett is currently Professor of Double Bass at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Previous appointments include the faculties of Yale University School of Music and the Hartt School of Music in Connecticut, the Oberlin College Conservatory in Ohio and the University of Iowa where as President for the International Society of Bassists, she hosted the 1999 ISB convention
As a native Iowan, she did her undergraduate training with Eldon Obrecht of the University of Iowa, where she earned her baccalaureate degree. She also studied with Stuart Sankey at Aspen Music Festival and with virtuoso Gary Karr at Yale. While at Yale, she earned both a masters and doctorate in musical arts, the first Yale doctorate awarded in doublebass.
As a chamber musician she has performed with the artists of the Guarneri, Emerson, Laurentian and Stanford Quartets and the Borodin Trio. Her solo appearances have included many Contemporary premieres and solo improvisations as well as traditional repertoire. hi the coming year she will be performing in Israel and Brazil as well at regional and local events. She has a 5010 CD Lady bass.
Diana is performing on an instrument she built with the help of ]im Reck of Iowa City.