Andres Diaz has performed throughout Europe, Asia and both North and South America as both recitalist and orchestral soloist, and has performed the world premieres of Leon Kirchner's Music for Cello and Orchestra, Thomas Oboe Lee's Cello Concerto, and Gunther Schuller's Concerto for Cello and Orchestra, as well as the American premiere of Frank Bridge's Oration. In the US he has performed with, amongst others, the Atlanta, Chicago, Milwaukee, Seattle, National and American symphonies, as well as the Boston Pops, and in recent seasons he has toured Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Chile, Argentina, Venezuela and the Dominican Republic. Mr Diaz has also toured the major cities of New Zealand with the New Zealand Chamber Orchestra and performed in Moscow and Saratov with Russia's Saratov Symphony. He has participated in many of America's most prestigious summer music festivals, including Tanglewood, Saratoga, Santa Fe, Ravinia, Marlboro and Spoleto, and has toured nationally with the Santa Fe and Spoleto festivals. His Tanglewood appearances earned him the Pierre Mayer Memorial Award for Outstanding String Player, and for five years (until his resignation in September 2001) he was co-director of the Boston University Tanglewood Institute Quartet Program.

Mr Diaz is a much sought-after recitalist and has given performances in New York's Alice Tully Hall, the Library of Congress in Washington, and Boston's Jordan Hall and has been featured on Boston's Gardner Museum series and the highly regarded San Francisco Performance Series. An active chamber musician, Andres Diaz frequently performed with the late pianist Samuel Sanders and has also collaborated with pianists Judith Gordon, Richard Goode and Mischa Dichter. He is also a member, together with his brother, violist Roberto Diaz, and violinist Andres Cardenes, of the Diaz String Trio. The trio has toured extensively in Mexico and North and South America and has also performed at the Kuhmo Festival in Finland and the International Festival of St Cypriene in France.

Andres Diaz has made several recordings with pianist Samuel Sanders, including works of de Falla and Schumann on the MusicMasters label, and on the Dorian label, Russian Romantics, a compilation of short Russian works, American Visions, featuring works of Barber, Bernstein and Foote, and the Brahms sonatas for piano and cello. Mr Diaz's recording of the Villas-Lobos Cello Concerto No 2 (also on Dorian) won the 1996 Allegro Music Award for Best Orchestral Release. He has also recorded a CD with the Diaz Trio featuring music of Paganini.

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