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Kim Diehnelt score tutor

Artistic Coaching: Kim will work with you or your ensemble to:
  • deepen your perspective of a musical work
  • polish your performance and presentation by providing critical, discerning, and respectful feedback
  • strengthen your ensemble's integration, flow, and musical conveyance

Coaching Notes:
Composer score review:

"Kim’s knowledge is extensive and insightful. Her comments are direct, instructive and sensitive to my feelings about my latest “offspring.” She questions and suggests rather than lectures or insists, thereby revealing hitherto unsuspected possibilities.” – John N. Booth, Composer
  • Guidance on orchestration, texture, timbre, voice-leading, notation, and ensemble
  • Receive feedback on how the piece will "work" in a live setting
  • Learn how to achieve a more accurate realization of your musical ideas

Elgar masterclasses:
  • Chamber music
  • Soloists for cello concerto and violin concerti
  • Orchestral works
  • Lectures on Elgar: his story, his music

The Classical Connoisseur:

"The Classical Connoisseur fills an urgent need of today’s listener. Audiences are hungry to explore what it is they are hearing – not in terms of the anatomy of music, but through discovering music’s ability to create metaphor - and enchantment."

Kim Diehnelt is the Classical Connoisseur, presenting a wine-tasting approach to music. Classical music is one of the world’s pleasures: an art to explore, savor, and enjoy. As the Classical Connoisseur, Maestra Kim guides listeners through tastings of qualities, styles, and characters of music and performers. With a focus on music as an event to experience, rather than an object to dissect, she provides insights into tuning-in, comparing sound events, and building a hearing-vocabulary and sensitivity to metaphor. In this ground-breaking approach - and in her dynamic personal manner - Kim “conducts” listeners to greater perception and enjoyment of this great art.

For bookings, please contact Kim. (A wine & music version combining actual wine-tasting and music-tasting is also available)


Professional feedback and confidential consultation.




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