Dianne Goolkasian Rahbee (born February 9, 1938) is an Armenian-American contemporary classical composer and pedagogue.
[1] Rahbee began her early musical training as a pianist with Antoine Louis Moeldner, and continued study at Juilliard School as a piano major.
She later studied piano with David Saperton in New York and Lily Dumont, Russell Sherman, and Veronica Jochum in Boston.
At age 40, Rahbee began concentrating on composing and produced a large body of works.
[5] Rahbee traces her lineage of piano study directly to Ludwig van Beethoven through Antoine Louis Moeldner.