The award-winning pianist Diane Walsh has toured the globe, with performances in forty-six of the fifty United States, and twenty-four countries. Highlights include recitals at Carnegie Hall in New York, the Kennedy Center in Washington, Orchestra Hall in Chicago, Wigmore Hall in London, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Philharmonia in St. Petersburg, and Dvorak Hall in Prague.

Ms. Walsh has appeared as piano soloist with the San Francisco, Indianapolis, Portland, Austin, Springfield, Rochester, New Bedford, Delaware, Syracuse and American symphonies. She has toured the United States with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s,  toured Europe with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and soloed with orchestras in Germany, Brazil, Russia, the Netherlands and Czechia. Conductors with whom she has collaborated include David Zinman, Seiji Ozawa, Kazuyoshi Akiyama, Leon Botstein, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Eliahu Inbal, John Giordano, Kevin Rhodes, John Nelson, and Peter Bay.

In 2009 she was the onstage pianist in the Broadway production of Moisés Kaufman's play 33 Variations, starring Jane Fonda, during which she gave over 100 performances of Beethoven’s Variations on a Waltz of Diabelli.

Diane Walsh has been awarded many honors including the top prizes at the Munich, Salzburg Mozart, Concert Artists Guild, Young Concert Artists international competitions; she was also a prizewinner at the Ferruccio Busoni, Van Cliburn and William Kapell international competitions.

Summer chamber music festivals where she has performed include Marlboro, Santa Fe, Bard, Chesapeake, and Music from Salem. She was also artistic director of the Skaneateles Festival for five years.

Ms. Walsh has released twenty recordings on labels including Naxos, Navona, Bridge, Newport, Sony, Nonesuch, Koch, CRI, Jonathan Digital, and Stereophile. Her most recent release is a collaboration with cellist Marcy Rosen in works by Chopin, Schumann, and Barber, released in November 2025 by Bridge Records. She holds degrees from the Juilliard School, where she studied with Irwin Freundlich, and from the Mannes College of Music, where she studied with Richard Goode. She was an associate professor at Mannes for 32 years, and has also taught at Vassar College and Colby College. Since 2023 she is Artist-in-Residence at the Portland Conservatory of Music in Portland, Maine. Ms. Walsh is proud to be a Steinway Artist.

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