Diana Rotaru (b. Bucharest, 1981) studied at the National University of Music in Bucharest with Ştefan Niculescu and Dan Dediu. In 2005-2006 she also studied, by means of an Erasmus student exchange, at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris with, among others, Frédéric Durieux.
Rotaru has participated in different summer composition courses such as Acanthes (Metz, 2008), Voix Nouvelles-Royaumont (2002 and 2006) or the International Bartok Seminary (Szombathely, 2003) - thus interracting with composers such as Sciarrino, Harvey, Ferneyhough, Loevendie or Jarell.
She has won numerous prizes, among which the Romanian Academy’s George Enescu Award (2010)