DIANA ZIABCHENKO is an opera singer specializing in classical and contemporary repertoires and a devoted promoter and researcher of Ukrainian contemporary music.

From 2015 to 2021, she studied opera singing at the National Music Academy of Ukraine, earning both Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees under the tutelage of Professor Oleksandr Dyachenko, a National Artist of Ukraine. From 2021 to 2022, she completed an assistantship under Dyachenko, also at the National Music Academy of Ukraine.

Diana debuted on the stage of the Opera Studio at the National Music Academy of Ukraine in 2017 and has since performed roles including Maddalena (Rigoletto), Clarice (La pietra del paragone), Mother (Kateryna), Lyubasha (The Tsar’s Bride), Olga (Eugene Onegin), and Miss Todd (The Old Maid and the Thief).

She has placed in various national and international competitions, including the Petrusenko National Vocalists Competition (Kherson, Ukraine), the Rubini International Opera Singers Competition (Romano di Lombardia, Italy), the Alida Vane International Singers Competition (Ventspils,Latvia), and the International Competition in memory of Muslim Magomayev. She has participated in numerous masterclasses with renowned figures in the opera genre, including: Della Jones (mezzo-soprano, Royal Opera, London), Elio Orciuolo (opera conductor, Italy), and Marcello Lippi (baritone, Italy).

Since 2021, she has been collaborating with the Opera Aperta modern opera laboratory, led by Roman Grygoriv and Illia Razumeiko, performing as a soloist in various operas. She debuted as Alma in Opera Lingua (November 2021) at the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine. She consequently performed the role of Daphne in the opera Chornobyldorf at several international festivals, including Prototype Festival (New York, USA, January 2024), Theater der Welt (Frankfurt, Germany, July 2023), Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (UK, November 2022), Euro Fest (Liverpool, UK, May 2023), O. Festival for Opera (Rotterdam, Netherlands, May 2022), Opereomanija (Vilnius, Lithuania, October 2022), Musiktheatertage (Vienna, Austria, September 2022), and Komedie Rokokoabc Mestska Divadla Prazska (Prague, Czech Republic, March 2024).

She was a soloist in Grygoriv and Razumeiko’s 2022 opera Genesis at the Khanenko National Museum of Art in Kyiv, and a guest soloist at the Summer Festival “Civitanova all’Opera” in Italy in May 2022.

As part of the XXXIII International Festival Kyiv Music Fest in 2022, Diana premiered Zoltan Almashi’s Fantasy on the poetry of Viktor Rekalo for mezzo-soprano and cello.

She has developed several solo projects for the Khanenko Museum and the National Reserve “Sofia Kyivska” in Kyiv. Diana also performed at the Gulf Stream Festival, presenting a concert of music by Zoltan Almashi, including his canatata for mezzo-soprano, piano and saxophone “From the green thoughts of one fox.”

In April 2024, she was invited to headline the concert “Les nuits électriques” at the Sorbonne University in Paris as part of the conference “Ukrainian Musical Avant-Gardes: from 1910 to the Present.”

In December 2024, she made her debut at the National Philharmonic of Ukraine with the program “Affinity,” a concert of Ukrainian contemporary music, which she designed.