Anna Piroli
soprano, dedicates herself to contemporary vocal music, starting from a wide range of artistic training that includes baroque practice, opera tradition, choral and ensemble experience, combined with academic studies in linguistics and literature, stage practice and opera direction, and research in the field of vocal education.

Born in 1989 in Cremona (Italy), after a Bachelor degree in Literature cum laude (with a thesis on Stravinsky and Orff) she obtained the Three-year degree in singing at the Conservatorio "G. Verdi" in Milan with full marks, and two Master of Arts degrees at the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana under the guidance of Luisa Castellani (Master in vocal pedagogy in 2016 and Master in singing performance in 2018, obtaining honourable mention in both recitals). Over the years she has attended masterclasses with important interpreters of baroque vocal music (M. Pennicchi, P. Vaccari, R. Invernizzi, S. Prina, E. Kirkby, N. Rogers), and she has deepened her knowledge of chamber music with historical instruments with G. Togni. At the same time she perfected her knowledge of contemporary vocal music with L. Castellani, N. Isherwood and the Ensemble Linea in Strasbourg and A. Caiello and the Divertimento Ensemble. Winner of the first edition of the scholarship promoted by the Isabella Scelsi Foundation, she was chosen by Michiko Hirayama to start an exclusive course of study of Giacinto Scelsi's vocal works. She also specialised in the bel canto repertoire with L. Serra and T. Fabbricini at the Fondazione Donizetti in Bergamo and the Accademia Teatro alla Scala in Milan. In 2016 she debuted the role of Tina, the protagonist of S. Gervasoni's opera Limbus-Limbo at the National Opera House in Kiev with Ukho Ensemble conducted by L. Gaggero. She sang in two different editions of the Biennale Musica in Venice, performing on stage unique acts by F. Ciurlo and A. Cortese, directed by M. Mantanus and F. Perocco. She has been appreciated several times in L. Berio's Folksongs (LAC Lugano, Bellinzona, Milano Film Festival, Bergamo, Modena, Moncalvo, Asti) and in L. Berio's Laborintus II in Sala Verdi in Milan. She collaborated with the vocal ensemble Vox Àltera for the premiere of A sei voci by B. Furrer in the Festival La Via Lattea in Mendrisio and Venice. Together with Divertimento Ensemble she sang in Milan G. Ligeti's Aventures (Tearo Litta) and B. Furrer's Lotófagos (Auditorium S. Maria Litta). Furrer (Auditorium S. Fedele); she was soloist with MDI Ensemble in U. Chin's Akrostichon-Wortspiel at the Fondazione Spinola Banna per l'Arte. She has given numerous first performances of works by emerging composers (M. Azzan, Z. Baldi, C. Ciceri, R. Marsicano, M. Saleri, H. Yoon,...) and has collaborated with conductors such as F. Bossaglia and with the Gioventù Musicale Internazionale.

In addition to contemporary opera roles, she was soloist in the 2015 AsLiCo season as contadina in Nozze di Figaro under the baton of S. Montanari, and elsewhere she has played supporting roles in traditional and non-traditional operas: Annina in Traviata, Paggio and Contessa in Rigoletto, il Fuso in Respighi's La bella dormiente, Criside in Satyricon and Poma in Maderna's L'Augellin Belverde, Virtù in Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea. In 2016 she was the protagonist of the eighth edition of Opera Kids of the Teatro Sociale di Como with the show T come Turandot, with more than 30 performances in some of the main Italian theatres. In the 2017 season of the Teatro Donizetti in Bergamo she was engaged as a cover for the farce Che originali! by Mayr.

As a soloist in the baroque repertoire she has performed in contexts such as the Festival di Musica Sacra in Trento, the Festival Mozart in Rovereto, the Festival degli Strumenti Antichi in Cagliari, and has collaborated with Concert d'Amis, Musici di Castello, Ensemble San Felice in Florence, Barokni orkester Akademije in Ljubljana, Orchestra Rusconi conducted by D. Garegnani (in Pergolesi's Stabat Mater).

He recorded as soloist the Vespero delle Domeniche by Cavalli for Dynamic, the unpublished Messa a 5 voci by F. M. Zuccari (soon to be released by Urania Records) and the contemporary oratorio Franca da Vitalta composed and conducted by F. Perotti (to be released in 2019).