Diana Kodner Gokce holds a double M.M. in Music from Northwestern University specializing in voice/opera and conducting. As an undergraduate, Diana was a flute major at Northwestern University. From 1977-1979 she was co-principal flutist of the Minnesota Orchestra, performing under Leonard Slatkin, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, and Jean-Pierre Rampal, to name but a few conductors.

At the age of 17 Diana conducted the Minnesota Orchestra in a young people’s concert as winner of the Urban Arts conducting competition. For six years Diana was conductor and musical director of the Mozart Sinfonia. She has been a conductor of choirs at Loyola University, National-Louis University, and Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago.

Diana has authored several books including Handbook for Cantors and Why Do We Sing?, both published by G.I.A. She was the editor the Gather Comprehensive Hymnal, first edition for G.I.A. and the conductor for the choral recordings: Catholic Classics, V. I and II (G.I.A. Publications).

Diana served as senior editor of Clavier Magazine and the editor of both Flute Talk and Flute Explorer magazines (The Instrumentalist Company). As editor of Flute Talk Diana interviewed the great flutist Sir James Galway and Jazz flutist Steve Kujala.

Diana is currently a music teacher and the Liturgical Music Coordinator at the Frances Xavier Warde School, Holy Name Cathedral Campus, in Chicago, and serves on the Teacher Training Advisory Board for the College of Education at National Louis University, where she earned an M.A. in elementary education.