Diana Krall’s music is often featured at Wilson Benesch exhibitions. The recordings are an example to an industry often neglectful of quality recordings. Both DVD and SACD recordings achieve engaging productions.
Krall was born in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada. James Krall (father) had assembled a large jazz collection that must have influenced Diana and at the age four she started to play the piano. At the age of fifteen, she was playing regularly in several Nanaimo restaurants. By seventeen she had won a scholarship from the Vancouver International Jazz Festival to study at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, and completed three terms.
Bass player Ray Brown (ex-husband of the late Ella Fitzgerald, long-time member of the Oscar Peterson Trio and Grammy-winning composer) and drummer Jeff Hamilton encouraged Krall to move to Los Angeles, and study with pianist Jimmy Rowles, with whom she began to sing. In 1990, Krall relocated to New York. Since 1990 she has recorded numerous albums and been nominated for several and won two grammy awards. She has enjoyed a fantastic career enjoying collaborations with leading artists from many fields of music. She recently married Elvis Costello and has since given birth to twins.
In 2000, she was awarded the Order of British Columbia. In 2003 she was given an honorary Ph.D. (Fine Arts) from the University of Victoria. In 2004 she was inducted into Canada’s Walk of Fame. In 2005, she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.
She is an honorary board member of the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation. Adella (mother) died from Myeloma in
2002.
http://www.dianakrall.com/ For 2007 USA tour information that begins in June
