Diana is a Brooklyn-based cross over singer, actor, and teacher who has worked in a variety of styles and settings as an interdisciplinary artist. She is a first generation Filipina American.
She is centered on creating art that is honest.
Diana received her Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance at The Oberlin Conservatory of Music where she studied under the tutelage of Salvatore Champagne. She then moved on to received her Masters in Music in Vocal Arts at Bard’s Conservatory of Music in upstate New York and had the joy to work with Lorraine Nubar.
Throughout her education, Diana studied within the scope of opera and classical voice. After being in this world for quite some time, Diana started cross over training into musical theater, jazz, pop/rock, and indie worlds.
Diana is an active performer in New York as well as a Teaching Artist at Carnegie Hall, The Metropolitan Opera, and Girl Be Heard. She is also the Executive Director of Blue Morph Collective, an artist collective comprised of interdisciplinary artists throughout the city who work from a place of rest, putting on showcases and creating spaces for deep conversation and revelation. Diana also has a private voice studio and teaches voice lessons in Brooklyn.
Some mentors and teachers of hers include: Jared Trudeau, Sean Peter Forte, Hannah Corneau, Lorraine Nubar, Stephanie Blythe, Kayo Iwama, and Salvatore Champagne.
Some musical inspirations of hers include: Whitney Houston, Dawn Upshaw, John Coltrane, Ella Fitzgerald, Michael Jackson, Linda Ronstadt, Sarah Vaughn, Audra McDonald, Kate Bush, and Lea Salonga (to name a few).
Catch Diana doing all of these things: being in the ocean, learning a new baking recipe, practicing yoga, scarfing down Chick-Fil-A, practicing Español con sus amigas, or cracking a corny joke.
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