Cellist Diana Golden is Adjunct Assistant Professor of Cello Performance at Long Island University - Post Campus and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Applied Cello at Molloy University. She served as Lecturer of Music at Washington College, where she has taught Applied Cello and Chamber Music, from 2021-2024, and as Adjunct Professor of Strings at Wagner College.

She has further taught cello and coached chamber music at Rutgers University as a Graduate Instructor, and served on the Cello Faculty for Ethical Culture Fieldston School, Take Flight, Riverdale Country School, Washington Heights & Inwood Music Project, Music Conservatory of Westchester, Union City Music Project, Tufts University’s Applied Music Program, Open Access to Music Education for Children, Newcomer’s Academy, Belmont Saturday Morning Music Program, Lincoln & Lexington Public Schools, BASICS Music Is Instrumental, Four Strings Academy, and Vibo Music Center, as well as teaching privately.

Golden has offered performance clinics at The College of New Jersey, South Texas College, Celia Cruz Bronx High School of Music, Willets Road School, Saint Francis Preparatory School, and through the Long Island String Festival Association. She has served as a substitute String Conductor and audition adjudicator for the Metropolitan Youth Orchestra of Long Island, substitute Conductor of the Washington College String Orchestra, and concerto competition adjudicator for Queens College’s Aaron Copland School of Music and the Chamber Music Center of New York. Golden was a faculty mentor for Washington College’s First Year Seminar on Academic Success and a Music Internship Mentor for the Green Meadow Waldorf School. She has taught and coached at festivals such as Mountain Springs Music Project, National Music Festival, Golden Williams Summer Strings, and the École de Musique Dessaix-Baptiste in Jacmel, Haiti.

Golden has offered professional development workshops to music educators through Suffolk County’s New York State Council of Administrators of Music Education (After-School Professional Development Series and Annual Symposium), and Westchester County Arts Leadership Association. She has given presentations on underrepresented repertoires through Washington College’s Academy of Lifelong Learning, Teacup Music, the Violoncello Society of New York, the Société de recherche et de diffusion de la musique haїtienne (SRDMH) for their Archive Integration Project with l’Université de Montréal, and at the 5th Symposium of Puentes Caribeños: Art Music Across the Caribbean hosted by the Conservatorio de Música de Puerto Rico.

She was the founder and Director of the Red Door Chamber Partners Educational Program, Co-Assistant Director of Mountain Springs Music Festival, and Co-Director of Golden Williams Summer Strings online music camp.

Golden completed a Licentiate of Cello Pedagogy at the Royal Academy of Music (LRAM for ABRSM) and has received Suzuki teacher training and certification through Cello Book 6.