Anabel Gil Diaz

Award-winning multi-instrumentalist and composer, Anabel Gil Diaz was born in 1994 in Havana, Cuba where she graduated from the Superior Institute of Art. She has developed professionally as a flutist, professor, and producer with the Chicago Jazz Philharmonic Orchestra under the conduction of Orbert Davis. She performs both classical and jazz, and has performed at renowned venues in the US such as Millenium Park, Auditorium Theatre, Navy Pier Concert Hall, Chicago State University Concert Hall, Amarnick-Goldstein Concert Hall, and Berklee Performance Center, and in Europe at the Auditorium Paco de Lucía, the Auditorium of Alicante (ADDA), Auditorium of Torrevieja, Spanish Institute of Radio and Television, Jazz Club Square, Galileo Galilei, AC Jazz Recoletos, Berlin Café, and National Auditorium of Madrid. She has received positive critiques by Splash Magazine, Chicago Tribune, El País and El Diario. She received masterclasses from international artists such as James Galway, Maxance Larrieu, Sibel Pensel, Paquito de Rivera, Sarpay Ozcagatay, Terri Lyne Carrington, Kris Davis, Edmar Colon, Dave Santoro, Marquis Hill, Chris Bullock, and Orlando Valle (Maraca), among others. Some of the scholarships she has been granted are the full scholarship from the University of Lynn in Miami; Presidential Scholarship from Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts; and The Artists Society (AIE) scholarship in Madrid, Spain. She has recently recorded for the New Standards album by Terri Lyne Carrington, and is currently part of the film music orchestra at Berklee College of Music.