About Diane Kolin

Diane is a singer and a voice teacher. She is the founder of ArtsAbly, a company dedicated to accessibility improvements and disability representation in the arts. She is also a PhD candidate in musicology at York University, Toronto, Canada. Her dissertation focuses on professional musicians, composers, and music specialists with disabilities. Her diverse research interests include Critical Disability Studies, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Franz Liszt. Between her duties as editor in chief of the Journal of the French Beethoven Society - Association Beethoven France et Francophonie, Diane frequently writes about Liszt and Beethoven in peer-reviewed journals. The study of Beethoven’s deafness and Diane’s personal history led to her current research about disability and music. She frequently participates in conferences in Europe and North America that center on both composers, and on her research about disability and music. Her collaborations with disabled musicians in the professional musical world allow her to expose new ideas on making music more accessible to a broader audience.

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