Diana Syrse Valdés Rosado is an award-winning composer and singer with an international presence. Recognized as one of the most compelling voices of her generation, her work is defined by emotional depth and a clear artistic point of view shaped by an interdisciplinary practice. Known for crafting powerful musical images in her creations, she engages with lived realities and processes of change and transformation, often placing voice and text at the center. With more than one hundred works performed worldwide spanning opera and music theatre, orchestral, choral, chamber music, songs, and interdisciplinary projects, she has received commissions from leading institutions and has served as composer-in-residence for more than fifteen opera and music theatre productions. 

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She has received commissions from the Staatsoper Hamburg, the Opéra national de Montpellier, the Bremen Philharmonic, the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, among others. In Germany, she has worked for more than fifteen opera and music theatre productions, including projects at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Schauspiel Frankfurt, Berliner Ensemble, and Kammerspiele München. Her music has been performed by the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the Musikkollegium Winterthur, the Orquesta Sinfónica de Minería, Ensemble Modern, Via Nova Ensemble, and the Los Angeles Master Chorale, as well as by numerous ensembles and choirs worldwide.

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Among her awards and recognitions, she has won the Music Prize of the City of Munich (Musikpreis der Landeshaupstadt München), the Counterpoint of Tolerance Project of Los Angeles (USA), and the FONCA scholarship for study abroad (Mexico). She was also selected for residencies at the Banff Centre in Canada (supported by FONCA), the residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris and the residency at the Deutsches Zentrum in Venice supported by the German Ministry of Culture. In 2021 she was selected for the Ricordilab program. Syrse was selected for the Akademie Musiktheater heute, as well as for the Académie d’Aix-en-Provence. She has been invited as a guest artist at the Juilliard School in New York, Yale University, the Tanglewood Festival, and has also served as a juror for international competitions. She is the recipient of the Fedora Audience Prize 2024. Her music is published by Ricordi, Éditions Lacroch, and Sur Editions.