DIANA COHEN is the co-founder and co- artistic director of ChamberFest Cleveland. She leads a multi-faceted career as a concertmaster, chamber musician, curator, and soloist. She was appointed Concertmaster of the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra in 2012 and has appeared as soloist with numerous symphony orchestras, including those in Calgary, Richmond, Rochester, Lansing, Grand Rapids, and Charleston, among others. Ms. Cohen has toured and recorded with the Grammy-winning Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and performed with the East Coast Chamber Orchestra, Sejong Soloists, The Knights, The Cleveland Orchestra, and New York Philharmonic. A graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Music, she was awarded the Jerome Gross Prize in Violin and was honored as the recipient of the 2023 Alumni Achievement Award. She was also inducted into the Cleveland Heights High School Distinguished Alumni Hall of Fame. Together with her husband, pianist Roman Rabinovich, Ms. Cohen founded Calgary’s first international chamber festival, ChamberFest West, which had its inaugural season in July 2022.