Bio

While standing in the corner of a crowded room of flutists, composer Dianna Link heard her music played for the first time and decided right there that she is a composer. Link writes music driven by narrative, nature, and the little things that make life meaningful. Her music is carefully thought out and she often visually maps out the emotional arch of a piece and uses it as a guide to direct the form, rhythmic textures, and sonic colors of the piece. Link’s music is a reflection of her own unique personality and is influenced by folk music, pop, jazz, rock and human connection.

Link writes for everything from intimate chamber works to expansive large ensemble works. She has collaborated with numerous musicians and ensembles including; Colorado Symphony, Akropolis Reed Quintet, SOLI chamber ensemble, Hocket, Denver Young Artists Orchestra, Atlys quartet, Emissary Quartet, Ivalas String Quartet, ~ Nois, and Christina Jennings. Her music has been performed on Colorado Public Radio, the National Flute Association Convention, CU Faculty Tuesday Music Series, and Pendulum New Music. She won the 2023 Flute New music consortium composition competition, was selected for the SOLI 30x30x30 project, was a composer fellow at the Akropolis Chamber Music Institute, and was named a finalist for the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award. 

Link is a recipient of the 2024-2025 Bouman Fellowship for the Kinds of Kings collective, and was mentored by Alexandra Gardner in 2021as part of the Elizabeth Henriksen mentorship program through the Boulanger Initiative. She holds a Bachelor of Music in Composition from the University of Colorado, Boulder College of Music where she studied with Annika Socolofsky, Jeff Nytch, Daniel Kellogg, and Carter Pann.  In 2023 Link earned an Artist Diploma as a composer fellow for the Gabriela Ortiz Composing Studio.

When Link is not composing, you can find her hanging out with her tortoise named Shelldon, baking sourdough bread, making homemade pizza, or wandering through wildflower fields in the Rocky Mountains.