Teresa Díaz de Cossío is a flutist, improviser and teacher. American born of Mexican descent, she was raised in Mexico, as a child attended school in Spain, and as a young adult she taught flute lessons in China. Teresa studied at Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, San Diego State University and Purchase College in New York. From the beginning of her musical endeavors, she was inclined to reach out for meaningful engagements with communities through her creative practice. A first iteration was with Música para la Paz, a non-profit she co-founded and directed for five years which taught music to kids in orphanages and low-income communities in Ensenada and Tecate.
Teresa participated in concerts with Plácido Domingo, the Carnegie Hall-affiliated De Coda ensemble, and Los Tigres del Norte. As a recipient of UNAM’s Resiliencia Sonora: Intérpretes fellowship, next summer Teresa will be recording works of Mexican composers. Kato Trio, which she co-founded in 2020, explores and creates pieces that merge acoustic instruments and field recordings of urban cities (beginning with Reykjavík, Ensenada, and New York).
Among Teresa’s current interests she investigates the life and work of Mexican female composers from the 20th century, with a particular focus on Alida Vázquez Ayala, a former DMA student at Columbia. In this regard, Teresa will be giving a talk Alida at "Unsung Stories: Women at Columbia's Computer Music Center." Currently pursuing a DMA in performance at UC San Diego, Teresa keeps other engagements at Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Ensenada, where she teaches flute in the pre-college and college programs, and coordinates the Festival de Música Nueva, Ensenada that foster relationships between audiences, musicians and non-musician performers from various cultural spheres.
Teresa participated in concerts with Plácido Domingo, the Carnegie Hall-affiliated De Coda ensemble, and Los Tigres del Norte. As a recipient of UNAM’s Resiliencia Sonora: Intérpretes fellowship, next summer Teresa will be recording works of Mexican composers. Kato Trio, which she co-founded in 2020, explores and creates pieces that merge acoustic instruments and field recordings of urban cities (beginning with Reykjavík, Ensenada, and New York).
Among Teresa’s current interests she investigates the life and work of Mexican female composers from the 20th century, with a particular focus on Alida Vázquez Ayala, a former DMA student at Columbia. In this regard, Teresa will be giving a talk Alida at "Unsung Stories: Women at Columbia's Computer Music Center." Currently pursuing a DMA in performance at UC San Diego, Teresa keeps other engagements at Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Ensenada, where she teaches flute in the pre-college and college programs, and coordinates the Festival de Música Nueva, Ensenada that foster relationships between audiences, musicians and non-musician performers from various cultural spheres.
