Diana Figueroa

Puerto Rican pianist Diana Figueroa is a graduate of the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD. She has been a professor of piano and piano pedagogy at the Conservatory of Music of Puerto Rico since 2004.

In 1980, she won First Place in the Jesús María Sanromá Piano Competition sponsored by the Asociación Pro Orquesta Sinfónica (APOS) of Puerto Rico, an occasion that marked her debut as a soloist with the Orchestra under the direction of John Barnett. During her career she has performed as a soloist with the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra, the Symphony Orchestra of the Conservatory of Music of Puerto Rico, the Philharmonic Orchestra and the Symphony Orchestra of the Free School of Music of San Juan. As a collaborating pianist she has performed for the Casals Festival, the Inter-American Festival of the Arts and Pro Arte Musical, among others. Figueroa is a member of the Sanromá Trio and the Gil – Figueroa piano duo, both institutional ensembles of the Conservatory of Music.

As a member of the Trio Sanromá, together with his colleagues Francisco Caban and Luis Miguel Rojas, he has performed complete cycles of the Beethoven and Brahms trios, as well as works by Arensky, Shostakovich, Mendelssohn, Turina, Piazzolla and other contemporary composers. In the 2023-24 season, he premiered the Triple Concerto by the composer Raymond Torres-Santos, a work dedicated to the Trio Sanromá and commissioned by the PR Symphony Orchestra. The Trio Sanromá also performed in two concerts for the Casals Festival in its virtual editions in 2020 and 2021 and in person at the Symphony Hall for Pro Arte Musical in the season celebrating the ninetieth anniversary of its foundation.

As a member of the Duo Gil y Figueroa, together with his colleague María del Carmen Gil, they regularly perform in concerts inside and outside the Conservatory with repertoire for two pianos and four hands. They also perform every year the Multipiano Fest, an event that brings together children and young pianists in a grand concert with an orchestra of 30 pianos conducted by Roselin Pabón.
Figueroa has recorded the albums Canción de Arte para Niños y Adultos with Corazón de Niño and El Paisaje y su sombra with Puerto Rican mezzo-soprano Ilca López. He has also recorded the album Caribe Clarinete with clarinetist Katheleen Jones and Contemporary Puerto Rican Works with the Conjunto Camerata Caribe.