Augusto has participated in master classes with Itzhak Perlman, Henryk Szeryng, and Sergui Luca.  He is a graduate from the Conservatorio Nacional de Musica in Mexico City.  He holds a Licensiatura in violin performance from Ollyn Yolitztly school of Music in Mexico.  In 1982, Mr. Diemecke won the first prize in the Concurso Nacional de violin in Mexico City.

Mr. Diemecke is a very active performer.  He has played with orchestras
such as the Mexico City Philharmonic, OFUNAM, Guanajuato Symphony, Houston
Symphony, Houston Ballet Orchestra, Cayuga Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra do Norte
do Portugal, and as concertmaster with Orquesta Philharmonique du Tuornon in
France.  He is currently the concertmaster with the Orchestra of the Southern
Fingerlakes (OSFL).

As a soloist he has performed with the Guanajuato Symphony,
Morelia Symphony, Orquesta Ollin Yolistly, Orquesta de Camara de Bellas
Artes, Corning Youth Orchestra,  North Houston Symphony, Orquesta do Norte do
Portugal, and Colgate Symphony.  He has performed chamber music recitals in France,
Portugal, Peru, Mexico, and the United States.

Augusto Diemecke has been teaching violin since 1988.  In 1991, he began his training in Suzuki pedagogy at the Ithaca College Summer Institute.  Augusto has taken training courses with Daphne Hughes, Linda Fiore, Marilyn O’Boyle, and Carrie Reuning-Hummel.

In 1997 he joined the faculty of Ithaca Talent Education Suzuki School as a violin teacher, and has been conducting the Pochino Orchestra for the past 2 years.  In the year 2000 Mr. Diemecke organized a tour for the ITE advanced violin ensemble to Mexico, through various cities such as Guanajuato, Zamora, San Miguel, and Salamanca.

Mr. Diemecke has been a guest clinician at the  Vermont Suzuki Strings
camp, New Hampshire workshop, Gabriel Foure Orchestra training camp in France,
Corning Strings Summer Camp, and the  Lima, Peru festival.  He is the
co-director for the Guanajuato, Mexico Suzuki Festival each September.