Bassoonist, Diane Lipartito received her BA in music performance from Rowen University, where she studied with Lawrence Stewart. She also worked with Philadelphia Orchestra members Kathleen White-Vigilante and Ferdinand Del Negro, and later with Arthur Weisberg at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where she earned her MM in music performance. Her interest in music improvisation led her to pursue studies with David Darling and Bill Schontz. Currently principal bassoonist with the TUNDI Productions opera orchestra, the Windham Philharmonic and both principal and second bassoonist with the PanOpera orchestra  along with second bassoonist in the Concerts in The Village orchestra in Kinderhook, NY and member of The Crow bassoon quartet in Red Hook, NY, she has also played principal bassoon with the Pioneer Valley Symphony, the Commonwealth Opera and the Williamstown Theatre Festival and both principal and second bassoon with The Keene Chamber Orchestra and Raylynmor Opera. An experienced chamber and orchestra musician, she appears frequently in concerts in western MA, southern VT, southern NH and the Hudson River Valley. Organizing chamber music concerts and discovering new repertoire has always been of particular interest to her as is, more recently, the study of performance psychology/physiology and music practice techniques. Besides teaching bassoon at Keene State College she also teaches bassoon at the Prindle School in Easthampton, MA and privately in her home in Holyoke, MA.