Diedre Murray

Diedre Murray
Genres	Jazz, classical
Instruments	Cello
Years active	1970s–present

Diedre Murray (born November 28, 1951, Brooklyn, New York) is an American cellist and composer specializing in jazz, improvised music, opera, and contemporary classical music. She is also active as a producer, and curator. She lives in Queens, New York.

As a performer she has worked with the Henry Threadgill Sextett, Leroy Jenkins, Julius Hemphill, James Brown, Muhal Richard Abrams, Archie Shepp, Fred Hopkins, Jason Kao Hwang, and Marvin "Hannibal" Peterson, in addition to leading a number of her own ensembles.

In 1993 Murray received commissions to create: a score for the inaugural concert at the Danny Kaye/Sylvia Fine Playhouse entitled "Five Minute Tango," performed by the Manhattan Brass Quintet; The Conversation for the Seattle-based New Performance Group at the Walker Art Center in Minnesota for the Music in Motion program; Flashes, a structured improvised collaboration with choreographer Blondell Cummings and musicians Jeanne Lee and Pauline Oliveros for The Firewall Festival 1993; and, music for Helen Thorington's radio piece Dracula's Wives for broadcast.

In 1994, Murray's works included The Voice Within, an a cappella theater piece for ten voices with text by Marcus Gardley, at Aaron Davis Hall; a tour of Flashes to the Taklos Festival in Switzerland; and, a dramatized version of Unending Pain, with text by Laurie Carlos, at P.S. 122 in New York City. Her work as a composer was intermixed with an extensive concert schedule as a band leader and concert soloist.

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