Teresa Diaz de Cossio
Teresa Díaz de Cossio is a flutist, improviser and teacher. Currently a DMA student at UC San Diego, flute teacher at Universidad Autónoma de Baja California. From the beginning of her musical endeavors, she was inclined to reach out for meaningful engagements with communities through her creative practice, an iteration is her work as co-organizer/founder of the Festival de Música Nueva, Ensenda. Currently, her research examines the life and work of the composer, teacher and pianist Alida Vázquez Ayala (1931-2016) and explores how Vázquez navigated race, gender and transnational networks in her teaching, performance and compositional work between Mexico and New York.
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 cre