Natacha Diels, flautist and director, was born in Los Angeles in 1981 and spent most of her childhood in New Mexico. She received an education in music performance and technology at New York University, where she founded the new music group Ensemble Pamplemousse. Natacha maintains a long-standing passion for electro-acoustic chamber music, and occasionally composes such works for Pamplemousse. She is currently working on incorporating storytelling into her next composition, and on developing her repertoire of extended vocal noises.