Soprano Valentina Čuden began her musical career in Vienna, where she was an actress in the Auersperg Palace already as a teenager. Since becoming a member of the Slovenian National Theater Maribor in 2009, she has appeared in numerous roles including Frasquita (Carmen), Giannetta (L’elisir d'amore), Suor Genoveffa and Nella (Il trittico), Contessa Ceprano (Rigoletto), Olga (The Merry Widow), the Beast in the Slovenian children’s opera Kdor upa, ne odneha (Whoever Hopes Never Gives Up), Leonora in Kogoj's opera Črne maske (The Black Masks) and Curra (La forza del destino). At the Slovenian National Theater Ljubljana she sang the role of Madame Herz in Mozart’s one act singspiel Der Schauspieldirektor and Leonora in Kogoj's Črne maske. She has performed on stages in Slovenia, Austria, Italy, Canada and Japan.

She studied voice with Pija Brodnik in Ljubljana following studies with Yoriko Tanno-Kimmons and Stuart Hamilton in Toronto. She has actively participated in several masterclasses, working with artists such as Croatian soprano Dunja Vejzović, Ulf Bästlein in Slovenia, Daniel Ferro in Italy and Australian pianist Stephen Delaney in Austria. Between 2002-2006 she won numerous awards in Canada, both as a singer and as a pianist, including first prizes at the Kiwanis music festival and the NATS competitions in Ottawa, and was also a finalist at the Canadian Music Competition in 2006. Valentina holds a Bachelor of Music degree in piano performance from Carleton University where she studied with the renowned piano pedagogue Verna Jacobson and graduated with Highest Honors in 2004. Among her most prominent recent stage appearances are the roles of Eliza Dolittle (My Fair Lady), Amor and Drusilla (L’incoronazione di Poppea), and Aksinya and Kaznyenka (Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District).