After completing her studies at the Academia Nacional Superior de Orquestra, in Lisbon, in the class of Paulo Gaio Lima, the interest nurtured over several years for ancient music takes Diana to the Netherlands, where she obtains the Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Historical Interpretation Practices with distinction, at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, in the class of Jaap ter Linden.

Since she dedicates herself to the practice of historic cello, she collaborates as a freelancer with several groups: 18th Century Orchestra, B’Rock, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Orchestra of The Age of Enlightenment, Irish Baroque Orchestra, Holland Baroque Society, Al Ayre Español, Divino Sospiro, L’Arpeggiata, Cappella Mediterranea and Ludovice Ensemble.

She plays regularly under the direction of musicians such as Enrico Onofri, Laurence Cummings, René Jacobs, Simon Murphy, Bartold Kuijken, Christina Pluhar, Elizabeth Wallfisch, Alfredo Bernardini, Frans Brüggen, Lars Ulrik Mortensen and Chiara Banchini. In 2007 she was selected to be part of the European Union Baroque Orchestra, having performed as a soloist on several occasions.

In the 2006/7 academic year, she was awarded the Masters Research Scholarship, Honors Program, granted by the Hague and Amsterdam Conservatories. She made recordings for various publishers with groups such as Cappella Mediterranea, Divino Sospiro, Sete Lágrimas, Wallfisch Band, European Union Baroque Orchestra and Forma Antiqua.

In 2009 she founded the Ensemble Bonne Corde, which specializes in the repertoire of the 18th and 19th century for cello and in the recovery of Portuguese music from the turn to the 19th century.

Diana is currently carrying out a PhD study on the cello in Portugal c.1750-1834 at Universidade Nova de Lisboa — INET, under the guidance of Prof. Rui Vieira Nery, with a FCT scholarship.