About

Diane Boyd Schultz is an acclaimed flutist whose career encompasses solo, chamber, and orchestral performances across Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Russia, and throughout the United States and the Caribbean. A prizewinner of the Mu Phi Epsilon International Competition and the National Federation of Music Clubs Orchestral Winds Competition, she has appeared with the Dallas Bach Society, Alabama Symphony, Terre Haute Symphony, Tuscaloosa Symphony, Chattanooga Symphony, Shreveport Symphony, and Richardson Symphony Orchestras. Her festival appearances include the National Flute Association, British Flute Society, Interlochen, Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp, Mid-South Flute Festival, and Florida Flute Association, with broadcasts on Red River Radio and Blue Lake Public Radio. A dedicated advocate for new music, she performed the world premieres of Chris Brubeck’s Hermitage Cats Save the Dayat the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. She has also recorded for the Emmy Award–winning documentary Weathered Secrets, for incidental music to Death of a Salesman, and on her recent recording Excursions, a compilation of new works for woodwind trio.

An active chamber musician, Schultz is a member of the Capstone Wind Quintet and performs regularly with the Vuorovesi Trio, appearing across the United States and in Ireland, as well as with the Schultz/Cowgill Duo, where she explores innovative repertoire for flute and voice. She currently serves as Professor of Flute at The University of Alabama School of Music, where she has taught since 2005. Her teaching includes undergraduate and graduate applied flute, pedagogy, repertoire, flute choir, and chamber music. Widely sought as a clinician and adjudicator throughout North America, she has also served on competition panels in the United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom.

Schultz earned the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Flute Performance and Pedagogy from the University of North Texas, with secondary studies in musicology and ethnomusicology. A Rotary International Scholar at McGill University in Montréal, she has received grants to commission and promote new works for flute, piccolo, and alto flute by American composers. Her scholarly writing has appeared in Flute Talk, Pan, and Instrumentalist. She is a Yamaha Performing Artist and performs exclusively on a custom YFL-994H.

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