• 1996 – 2002

    Košice Conservatory (piano – Judita Debreová, Peter Kaščák)

  • 2002 – 2007

    Academy of Performing Arts (Ivan Gajan, Marián Lapšanský, Marcel Štefko), contemporary performers’ master courses in Vienna (Oleg Meisenberg, Alexander Satz) and in Reichenbach in Germany (Elena Nesterenko)

  • 2008 – 2012

    Department of Musicology in the Philosophical Faculty of Comenius University, Bratislava  (doctoral study)

Diana Buffa is a Slovak pianist and co-founder of the Quasars Ensemble.

She is intensely dedicated to chamber music, with contemporary music holding an important place in her repertoire (several Slovak composers have dedicated works to her). As a member of the Quasars Ensemble, she regularly performs both domestically and internationally. In a piano duet with Ivan Buffa, she has premiered several works by Slovak composers and contributed to the production of 10 CDs featuring solo and chamber music for the labels Hevhetia, Music Fund, and Music Centre.

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