flute, piccolo, alto flute, bass flute, glissando flute

Upcoming Performances

  • Madame Butterfly

    Pocket Opera presents this heart-wrenching masterpiece as it might have actually sounded in Nagasaki, when East meets West.

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    Friday, Feb 20, 2026
    7:30pm

    Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts 

    Sunday, Feb 22, 2026
    1:30pm

    Gunn Theatre
    San Francisco Legion of Honor

    Sunday, Mar 1, 2026
    1:30pm

    Hillside Club
    Berkeley

    Details here

  • QL in NY

    Wednesday, March 18, 2026
    7:30 pm
    Manhattan School of Music
    Miller Hall
    130 Claremont Avenue, New York
    QL is looking forward to performing a formal concert and coaching MSM students in brass and woodwind workshops.


    Thursday, March 19, 2026
    7pm
    Americas Society
    680 Park Avenue, New York
    After a wonderful recorded concert in 2021, Quinteto Latino is live onstage with music by composers from the United States, Cuba, and Brazil.

  • ¡Chicanísima!

    The Bay Area’s Opera Cultura presents ¡Chicanísima! in association with Quinteto Latino. Following our sold-out premiere in 2024, the quintet is excited to revisit Carla Lucero's brilliant one-act opera (commissioned by QL) about political activist Olga Talamante.

Current Projects

Quinteto Latino

Quinteto Latino, founded in 2004 by French horn player Armando Castellano, is a dynamic wind quintet dedicated to showcasing Latino compositions and engaging diverse communities through music. The ensemble performs classical works culturally relevant to Latino communities and advocates for Latino composers through commissioning and performances. Alongside Castellano, the quintet consists of Diane Grubbe (flute), Kyle Bruckmann (oboe), Leslie Tagorda (clarinet), and Jamael Smith (bassoon).

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sfSoundGroup

The latest music of the European Avant-Garde to the grittiest sounds of the West Coast Improv-Underground, encompassing iconic and recent trends. “Bravely carrying the visionary torch of the Bay Area's rich experimental musical heritage”

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About Diane Grubbe

Diane Grubbe is a regular performer in the San Francisco Bay Area in a variety of musical genres. She performs regularly with Pocket Opera and has also appeared with the Stockton Symphony, Symphony Silicon Valley, Lamplighters, Festival Opera, and many others. She is a founding member of Quinteto Latino, a wind quintet focusing on contemporary music from Latin America and Latino-Americans. With a special interest in contemporary music and new performance techniques on flute, piccolo, alto and bass flutes, Diane enjoys improvising as well as studying and performing new works. She is a member of the contemporary music ensemble sfSound, and has been a guest performer with Earplay, the Eco Ensemble, Santa Cruz New Music Works, and the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players.

Diane holds a Master of Music degree from the San Francisco Conservatory where she studied with Lloyd Gowen and Tim Day. Her Bachelor of Music degree is from San Francisco State University where her flute instructor was Paul Renzi. Other important instructors have been Barbara Chaffe and Jim Walker of the San Francisco Ballet and Opera Orchestras as well as famed flutist/composer/innovater Robert Dick. She has performed in masterclasses with Julius Baker, Heinz Holliger and Robert Stallman.

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