Diana Vinagre is a cellist focused in the historically informed performance practice, having earned her Bachelor and Master degrees with distinction under the guidance of Jaap ter Linden in the Early Music Department of the Royal Conservatory of The Hague in the Netherlands. As a consequence of the musicological research undertaken as a performer, Diana as devoted herself to the study of the cello in Portuguese music in the 18th and first half of the 19th centuries. Focusing in the role of the instrument in Portuguese sacred repertoire and specifically in music with obbligati cellos and bassons from the royal court, Diana defended her doctoral thesis in Universidade Nova de Lisboa - INET-md in September 2021, approved with the maximum mark by unanimity. In 2009, Diana founded Ensemble Bonne Corde, an early music ensemble centered in 18th century soloist cello repertoire, developing an intense work of recovering unknown works, notably of Portuguese composers, but also of coeval European contexts. It's the case of newly discovered Lamentations for the Holy Week by Joseph-Hector Fiocco, included in the recording of the complete Lamentations of the "belgian" composer by Bonne Corde, to be released by Belgian label Ramée (Outhere) in November 2022. In the near future, we can also highlight the first modern recording of the Concerti grossi op. 1 by António Pereira da Costa, the only piece of the genre among Portuguese known repertoire for the belgian label Ramée in October 2021, with the support of Fundação GDA and Direcção Geral das Artes (Portuguese Ministery of Culture). Since 2005, Diana develops an intense activity as a free-lance baroque cellist with several renowned European groups, such as Orchestra of the 18th century, L'Arpegiatta, Cappella Mediterranea, BRock Orchestra, Ludovice Ensemble, Les Arts Florissants, Orquestra Barroca de Sevilla, Orchestra of The Age of Enlightenment, Irish Baroque Orchestra, Al Ayre Español, Les Muffatti, and Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, and worked under the direction of René Jacobs, Christophe Coin, Enrico Onofri, Laurence Cummings, Mark Elder, Vladimir Jurowsky, Simon Murphy, Bartold Kuijken, Christina Pluhar, Elizabeth Wallfisch, Alfredo Bernardini, Rinaldo Alessandrini, Frans Bruggen, Lars Ulrik Mortensen, Alexis Kossenko, Chiara Banchini, among others. In 2015 and 2016, Diana conceived and took charge of the artistic director of Reencontros, a festival of medieval and renascence music based in Sintra's Nacional Palace. Since 2021 she took the artistic direction Real Câmara, a Lisbon based baroque orchestra lead my Italian violinist Enrico Onofri. Diana's pedagogical experience started 20 years ago, both in modern as in baroque cello. Since 2021, she teaches baroque cello in Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa.