Daiana García Siveiro

Distinguished choral conductor, she is a member of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC), professor of the Orchestra Conducting specialty at the University of the Arts and has directed the Chamber Orchestra of Havana since 2011.

Daiana began studying piano, continued with Choral Conducting and, finally, chose orchestra conducting.

Graduated in Choral Conducting from the Amadeo Roldán Conservatory in 1998, under the tutelage of Leonor Suárez Dulzaides and with a Gold Diploma in Orchestra Conducting from the Superior Institute of Art in 2003, under the guidance of maestro Guido López-Gavilán. Starting in 2000, she began working as assistant conductor of the Youth Symphony Orchestra of the Amadeo Roldán Conservatory and from 2002 to 2008 she directed the Chamber Orchestra of that Conservatory. With both orchestras she has performed in the most important halls in the capital, conducted recordings for television programs and has been invited to participate in events such as the IV National Chamber Music Festival, IV International Festival of Ancient Music "Esteban Salas", premiering works in several editions of the Havana Contemporary Music Festival, the V International Choral Festival America Cantat, III and IV National Meetings of Symphony Orchestras, XVIII International Festival of Ballet Academies, as well as in the opening galas of the 28th New Latin American Cinema Festival, International Book Fair 2010, Lucas Awards and Cubadisco, among others.

In 2005 she participated with the Amadeo Roldán Chamber Orchestra in the recording of CDs by Aldo López-Gavilán ("Talking to the Universe") and Ilmar López-Gavilán ("Por el mar de las Antillas anda un violín") and in 2009 she was invited to conduct the Amadeo Roldán Youth Symphony Orchestra for the live DVD recording "Beyond Dusk", also by Aldo López-Gavilán, and in 2010 she recorded the music for the film Casa Vieja, by filmmaker Lester Hamlet, which won the audience award at the past New Latin American Cinema Festival.

She has conducted all the provincial symphony orchestras, performing in the most important halls in the country: Matanzas Symphony Orchestra (Teatro Sauto), Santa Clara Symphony Orchestra (Teatro La Caridad), Holguín Symphony Orchestra (Art Center), Oriente Symphony Orchestra (Dolores Hall) and Camagüey Symphony Orchestra (Teatro Principal). With the latter she worked as Associate Conductor from 2006 to 2008. In the closing gala of the III National Meeting of Symphony Orchestras, she was invited to conduct the Giant Orchestra made up of a selection of musicians from all the orchestras in the country.

Since 2004 she has annually conducted the National Symphony Orchestra and was invited to share the National Tour celebrating its 50th anniversary with Maestro Enrique Pérez Mesa.

Since 2011 she has been in charge of the Chamber Orchestra of Havana and with it has conducted successful concerts with premieres of Cuban and international works and prestigious soloists from Cuba, participating in the III Leo Brouwer Chamber Music Festival and the Jazz Plaza Festival 2011, among others.

In 2006 she was selected to participate in the VIII Orchestra Conducting Course taught by maestro Luis Gorelik with the Symphony Orchestra of Concepción, Chile; in 2007 she was invited to conduct the Metropolitan Youth Symphony Orchestra of Guatemala and in 2011 she performed a concert as part of the Cuba-Venezuela Traditionality Meeting, conducting the Philharmonic Orchestra of Caracas.

Daiana's most recent success was a performance at Lincoln Center in New York, last November, with resounding success, a privilege that many established conductors have not achieved, which demonstrates, once again, her artistic mastery.

The OCH and Daiana García achieved another significant accomplishment by performing in New York in November 2016 with Aldo López-Gavilán and American star Joshua Bell, something that Cuban musicians considered an enormous privilege and an unrepeatable moment of joy.

Maestro Daiana García Siverio is the fruit of the well-oiled system of artistic education on the Island and her own tenacity and vocation. That little girl who, without reaching three quarters of the ground, would argue with her mother about what clothes she wanted to wear and what ribbon or ornament suited her hair, displays the same fire on stage, beyond hidden nerves and enjoys with ecstasy the torrent of symphonic music that she loves.

Daiana is married to pianist Aldo López Gavilán and is the mother of beautiful and talented twin girls who study piano at the Manuel Saumell Conservatory.

In 2018 she was a judge on the commercial television program La Banda Gigante.