A native of El Paso, Texas, Jesus Diaz is a piano performance major at West Texas A&M University studying with Dr. Choong-ha Nam. A winner of the Clara Freshour music scholarship given by the Texas Association of Music Schools, he has won WTAMU’s concerto competition and performed with the WTAMU Symphony under the direction of Dr. Mark Bartley. He has also won the 2014 New Orleans Piano Institute's concerto competition and performed with the New Orleans Civic Symphony.