Giovana Bervian is a singer and instrumentalist, with classical and popular training, focusing her career in world music, instrumental music, and Brazilian popular music (MPB). Giovana began her music studies and classical guitar as a child at the Institute Carlos Gomes, in Carazinho, RS, her hometown.

From 2002 to 2006, Giovana and journalist Luciana Tornquist jointly produced and hosted a weekly radio program dedicated to choral music named ‘UFRGS em Canto’ (UFRGS in Chants), at the University Radio.

As a choral singer, she joined the UFRGS University Choir, the University of Alberta Mixed Chorus and the Edmonton Metropolitan Chorus, studying voice with sopranos Rosana Lofrano, Janet Smith, and also with baritone David Wilson, through his workshop Body, Breath and Voice Integrative Therapy, and singer Anna Beaumont, through her workshop The Autentic Voice. She also studied Chant, Mantra and Bhajan  at the Indian Music Academy, with professor Sharmila Mathur, and singer Shruti Nair.

Concerts she joined in Brazil include Carmina Burana (Carl Orff), Symphony n.9 and Choral Fantasy (Beethoven), Cantata BWV 12 and Christmas Oratorium (Bach), Coronation Mass and  Mass in C Major KW 115 (Mozart). In Edmonton, Giovana also joined the musical Titanic: the Musical in Concert, performed at the Francis Winspear Centre for Music.

In film, Giovana has worked in a variey of rules. In one of her most recent works, Giovana composed and performed two music scores to the documentary film Portuguese Cultures in Edmonton, produced and directed by Julio Munhoz to Telus TV, Canada. The film was invited to be part of the 60th Porto Alegre International Book Fair, in 2014, and selected for the Faro International Short Film Festival-2015.