Diana Syrse is a composer and singer from Mexico. Her sonic language often incorporates voice, electronics and traditional instruments from Latin America to evoke powerful, theatrical images. In her urban soundscape, she deals with socially relevant issues and makes an artistic contribution to the discourses of our time. On several occasions, her music is performed by herself in collaboration with other ensembles, choirs, and orchestras. Her catalog includes works written for choirs, orchestras, ensembles, electronics, electroacoustic music, dance, opera and new music theater.

She has worked as composer-in-residence in more than 15 Musiktheater/Opera productions in opera houses and theaters especially in Germany. She has obtained commissions by the Staatsoper Hamburg, Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Neuköllner Oper, Kammerspiele München. Berliner Ensemble and ensambles like Los Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles Master Chorale, Ensamble Via Nova, Musikkollegium Winterthur, Orquesta de Minería, Festival Présences, Prussia Cove Festival, between others. Diana was a member of the jury for the Carmen Mateu Opera Prize, the Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad, and in 2022 she was invited as a guest artist and lecturer at the Juilliard School in New York. She was also a member of the Akademie Musiktheater heute, the Academie d´Aix en Provence (ENOA), and the Darmstäter Ferienkurse.

Among her awards and recognitions, she won the Music Prize of the City of Munich, the award “Una Vita nella musica Giovani” given by Teatro la Fenice, the Counterpoint of Tolerance Project of Los Angeles, and she has been supported to make artistic residencies at the Banff Centre, la Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, and the Deutsches Zentrum in Venice. Diana Syrse studied at the Faculty of Music of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, she obtained a master's degree in composer-performer at the California Institute of the Arts, a second master's degree at the Hochschule für Musik und Theatre in Munich, and a PhD at the University of Birmingham. She is published by Ricordi.