Biography
Dianne Goolkasian Rahbee was born and raised in Waltham Massachusetts. She began her early musical training as a pianist with Antoine Louis Moeldner, and continued study at Juilliard as a piano major, and later at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria. She later studied piano with David Saperton in New York and Lily Dumont, Russell Sherman, and Veronica Jochum in Boston.
At the age of 40, she began concentrating more seriously at composing and has produced a large body of works. Her father, Peter Aharon Goolkasian, was a survivor of the 1915 Armenian Genocide.
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