Viviana Díaz is an outstanding professional flutist and musician in the classical and popular fields. She began her formal musical education at the age of 12 at the Escuela Libre de Música Ernesto Ramos Antonini where she specialized in flute. Viviana began working in the Bayamón Symphony Orchestra at the age of 16 and remained a member for 10 years as a flutist and piccolo player. She completed a bachelor’s degree in music with a specialty in flute at the Puerto Rico Conservatory of Music, graduating Suma Cum Laude. On March 9, 2006, she participated in a concert at Carnegie Hall as principal flutist of the CMPR concert band, led by director and professor Rafael E. Irizarry

Viviana completed some master’s courses at Miami University in Ohio, with a full scholarship due to the high level of performance demonstrated in the entrance audition. In addition, she was principal flutist for all the institution’s musical ensembles: symphony orchestra, the concert band, the opera orchestra, and the wood wind ensemble. Her flute teacher was Randolph Bowman, principal flutist of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. As soon as classes began in mid-August, Viviana was extended an invitation to play at the soloists’ concert presented during the beginning of September. At that event she presented Syrinx by Debussy, a flute solo.

Viviana has been a music teacher at the Colegio Sagrado Corazón de Jesús in University Gardens since 2011. She has collaborated and worked with a group of musicians such as Hermes Croatto and Mucho Manolo; she shared the stage with famed flutist Nestor Torres and had the privilege of becoming a special guest for Andrés Jiménez “El Jíbaro” at his December 2022 concert “Mis Maestros”. She participated in the Banco Popular 2019 special Tiempos de Aguinaldo.  

She is currently expanding to genres such as Cuban, and Latin jazz. Within these genres, Viviana is guided by musician Pablo Rosario “El Indio” who has given her the opportunity of participating as a guest in his very own group Pablo Rosario and His Latin-Jazz Messengers. She is the cofounder of the Viviana Díaz y A Tempo de Flauta quartet. In this group she is accompanied by the renowned -percussionist Javier Oquendo, the bassist Joseph Ramírez, and the guitarist and “cuatrista” César Cortés. Viviana Díaz y A Tempo de Flauta provides entertainment at the restaurant Terruño in Luquillo Puerto Rico, and in private activities. The sound of her flute has been recorded in different musical projects by Puerto Rican artists. Viviana’s passion and love for music keep her searching and exploring new horizons and possibilities.

For Viviana, the highest sense of making music is to transmit energies of love, healing and sounds that transcend the earthly plane and connect with the soul of the audience. One of her favorite phrases is: “What matters is the love we put into the work we do.” – Mother Teresa.