Pierre Petit wrote in Le Figaro: “At the age of thirteen, Diana Gabrielyan shows overwhelming presence, passion, and sense of style.”
Diana was born in Yerevan, Armenia. She began musical studies in her early years. The love for the music transferred to Diana from the violinist’s mother, who was Diana’s principal teacher of violin and piano. Profound adoration for music inspired Diana to hold her first public concert at the age of five. In Yerevan, she studied at the famous “Tchaikovsky Music School for Talented Children,” and at the age of nine, she performed her first solo recital in the House-Museum of Aram Khachaturian.
She is a prize-winner in more than twenty-five national and international piano competitions in Europe, the United States, and Armenia, seventeen of which are First prizes. Among the most important international awards are worthy to mention the Gramsci Prize, the Rovere d’Oro Prize, the Rospigliosi Prize in Italy, and the “F. Chopin – Hartford” Prize.
On the occasion of the “Great Jubilee” in 2000, she performed numerous concerts, including one at the historical “Palazzo Ruspoli” in Rome, that broadcasted on Vatican Radio. Since then, until today, many of her recordings have been aired during the “Diapason” program on Vatican Radio.
In 2005, celebrating both the exhibition of St. Gregory the Illuminator statue at the Vatican and the 800th anniversary of St. Nicholas of Tolentino, she performed in the Basilica of Saint Nicolas of Tolentino and was awarded an Artist Medal by S. B. Nerses Bedros XIX, Patriarch of the Armenian Catholic Church of Cilicia.
In April 2014, her 1st CD was released by the Odredek Records Label, with the music of Strawinsky, Schostakovich, Babadjanyan, and Mansuryan.
She graduated brilliantly from the “Santa Cecilia” Conservatory of Music in Rome, both in Classical Piano and in Chamber Music, and from the prestigious International Piano Academy “Incoltri col Maestro” in Imola, in Italy.
Her repertoire covers a wide range from the Baroque era to contemporary works.
She performs extensively, participating in various festivals and performing solo recitals in prominent theaters and halls such as the Rome Opera House, the Marcellus Theatre, the Aula Magna of the Sapienza University in Rome; the Malibran Theatre in Venice; the Siotto Concert Hall in Cagliari; the Gaber Auditorium in Milan; the Mozart Hall of Philharmonic Academy in Bologna; the Maison de l’Italie, the Unesco Salle de Cinema, the Citè des Arts in Paris etc.
In 2017, in addition to artistic activity, she established her own school of music in Rome, named “Musicali Sfumature”.
In 2021, Diana was admitted to the Master of Music program at the Manhattan School of Music, one of the most prestigious and renowned music institutions in the world, under the guidance of world-acclaimed pianist Maestro Alexander Moutouzkine. In the spring of 2023, she accomplished her degree at the Manhattan School of Music with brilliant grades.
She carried the responsibilities of being the Co-Artistic Director of the event “11th AGBU Performing Artists in Concert,” held at Carnegie Hall in October 2022. Meanwhile, she was one of the artists.
She worked as a principal Collaborative Pianist in the Precollege Department of the Manhattan School of Music from January 2022 to December 2023.
Currently, Diana works as a piano teacher at the “Concept Music” school in Brooklyn and piano Professor at Saint David’s School in Manhattan.
She was accepted into the prestigious Catholic University of America in Washington DC for extremely selective DMA studies in Piano Performance, set to start in the fall of 2024.
