Diane Hubka has been winning international acclaim ever since her debut CD, Haven't We Met, featuring jazz legend Lee Konitz was released on the Dutch Challenge/A-Records label and nominated for a 1999 Jazz Award for "Best Recording Debut", alongside rising stars Stefon Harris, Ravi Coltrane and Brian Blade. The LA Jazz Scene affirms: "There is much more to singing than a lovely voice and Hubka can do it all." Whether singing with an ensemble or accompanying herself on seven-string guitar, she playfully improvises over what New York's Village Voice calls "as eclectically entertaining a collection of material as one could wish for."
   Diane's newest recording, Diane Hubka Goes to the Movies, celebrates her move from New York to "Hollywood" with songs penned by some of the most acclaimed film composers of our time. Released in Japan in April 2007 and in North America and Europe in June, Swing Journal gave it a five-star review, calling her "arguably the biggest discovery since Roberta Gambarini." Her third CD, You Inspire Me, was a personal tribute (and testament) to her love of jazz guitar, with seven of the world’s top virtuoso guitarists. Scott Yanow heralded her second CD, Look No Further as "one of the best in recent times.
   Diane has recorded and/or performed with jazz luminaries Bucky Pizzarelli, Gene Bertoncini, Harold Danko, John Pisano, John Hart, Frank Kimbrough, Christian Jacob, Carl Saunders, Scott Whitfield, and the Brazilian Trio Da Paz. She has performed in major jazz clubs across the US, appearing in New York at Blue Note, Birdland, Knitting Factory, Jazz Gallery and 55 Bar; the Mellon Central Pennsylvania Jazz Festival, the Philadelphia Guitar Show, Washington D.C.’s Blues Alley, Jazz Corner in Hilton Head, SC and in Los Angeles at the Jazz Bakery, Steamers Jazz Cafe, and the LA County Museum of Art. Returning to her home town, she has twice been ’Featured Soloist’ with the Western Maryland Symphony.
   In September 2002 Diane Hubka began playing the 7-string guitar. Howard Alden, Concord Jazz recording artist and one of the world's foremost 7-string players, says: "I think voice plus seven-string guitar are an ideal combination. It's rare to find someone who can perform with both single-handedly, but Diane Hubka does just that - beautifully!"
   This Blue Ridge Mountain-bred artist grew up in Western Maryland in a musical family and learned violin, trombone and guitar from an early age. In college she joined her guitar teacher's group as a singer, and developed her love and knowledge of jazz. "My teacher, Bill Bittner, playing his big, Gibson L-7 guitar with a Charlie Christian pick-up, made a permanent impression on my young jazz ears!"
   After graduating from college she moved to Washington, DC where she hung out at clubs like Blues Alley, One Step Down and Mr. Y’s Soul Kitchen, absorbing sounds of local artists including Charlie Byrd and Shirley Horn, as well as honing her own performance skills in those rooms.
   In 1986 Diane Hubka moved to New York and soon after the National Endowment for the Arts awarded her a jazz fellowship. She studied voice, piano and guitar with some of New York’s premier jazz artists including: Anne Marie Moss, Sheila Jordan, Barry Harris, Harold Danko, Connie Crothers, and Howard Alden. Diane lived and performed in the jazz mecca of New York City for nearly two decades before moving to Los Angeles in 2004. In addition to performing regularly, she accepts students for private instruction as well as conducts workshops on jazz improvisation throughout the country. A member of the International Association of Jazz Educators (IAJE), she moderated a panel at their Jan. 2005 Conference on "The Voice / Instrument Connection."