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Diana Sipes, DMA, is a Professor of Music and Director of the School of Arts, Media & Communication at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, where she has taught since 2002. She presently previously served for several years as an associate dean and department chair. Besides applied flute and flute ensemble, her teaching areas have included music theory, music history, and flute techniques courses. She has been principal flute with the Corpus Christi Symphony Orchestra since 1994 and with the Victoria (TX) Symphony Orchestra since 1997. She previously performed with symphony and opera orchestras in South Carolina, Georgia, Ohio, and Louisiana. 

Besides orchestral performance, Dr. Sipes remains active as a recitalist, chamber musician, clinician, and adjudicator. She has won alto flute positions several times in the annual National Flute Association (NFA) Professional Flute Choir competitions, and she was selected to perform in recitals at the 2011, 2020, 2022, and 2024 NFA conventions. As a soloist, she has performed with the Corpus Christi Symphony, Corpus Christi Chamber Orchestra, Corpus Christi Area Youth Orchestra, the Victoria Symphony, and with numerous university ensembles. Under her direction, university flute students have won positions in the NFA Collegiate Flute Choir several times. She also currently serves as immediate Past-President of the Texas Association of Music Schools, an organization that represents the music programs at institutions of higher learning across the state.

She earned a Bachelor of Music Education with a Performance Certificate and a Master of Music Education from the University of South Carolina and a Doctor of Musical Arts in flute performance with a theory minor from Louisiana State University. As a university student, her performance honors included placing as National Level First Runner-Up in the woodwind division of the Music Teachers National Association Collegiate Competition. Her primary flute teachers have been Glen Riggin, Constance Lane, and Katherine Kemler.

Diana lives with her husband Dan, who is a Meinl-Weston tuba artist and TAMU-CC professor, along with five cats and a rescue guinea pig. Their younger daughter attends UT-Austin, and their older daughter is a recent Longhorn graduate. When she's not teaching or practicing, she enjoys running, yoga, time at the gym, and reading during her time off.