The Voice of Diane
Sloan Kubeja
Diane
Sloan Kubeja has been teaching voice in the Big Bear Valley for almost twenty
years; creating and directing approximately sixty musical productions. Since
February of 2013, the Voice Studio of Diane Sloan Kubeja has proudly sent more
than thirty Big Bear High School students to the Honors Performance Series at
Carnegie Hall, a concert venue in
Midtown Manhattan in New York City.
Also,
four Voice Studio Students have appeared on stage at the Sydney Opera House located in Sydney, Australia.
Married for 28 years,
Mark Charles and Diane Sloan Kubeja are parents to beautiful and talented daughter,
Maggie Sloan Kubeja. A graduate of Big Bear High School, Maggie also a film
studies major at Santa Barbara City College, has her Bachelor of Music degree.
Diane Sloan Kubeja, has
a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Northern Iowa and a Masters
of Music in Opera Performance & Literature from Eastman School of Music in
Rochester, NY.
While a resident of Los Angeles for 14 years and Diane
performed in the movie, television, commercials and restaurant entertainment
industry; as well as in a national tour ending with a cruise to Bermuda as a
part of their entertainment core. The young family moved to the Big Bear
Valley when Maggie was four-months old, thus the beginning of her teaching
career.
Diane Sloan Kubeja has
been a NATS (National Association of Teachers of Singing) member and vocal
adjudicator, since 2011. She also served as the NATS, Las Vegas Chapter
Treasurer for five years. Her students have been participating in the NATS
Student Auditions twice a year in the last nine years; some winning Chapter and
Regional Divisions and moving into the YouTube rounds of competition.
Hundreds
of Kubeja’s voice students within the Big Bear Valley, California have competed
and placed in local and regional vocal competitions. She feels honored and
grateful to have worked so long in the Big Bear Valley with such diligent and
talented students.
We
the parents and residents, plus her many voice students, here in the small San
Bernardino Mountain communities feel honored to have the expertise of the
talents of beautiful Diane Sloan Kubeja
as our neighbor, too.
By E T Russell
November 2021
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