Anna Piroli

The Italian soprano Anna Piroli focuses equally in her vocal work on historically informed performance practice of Renaissance and Baroque repertory and on contemporary music. A crucial milestone in her artistic development was her meeting with Jordi Savall in 2021; since then, she has performed regularly with La Capella Reial de Catalunya and Hespèrion XXI.

She has also worked with vocal ensembles such as Collegium Vocale Gent, il Pomo d’Oro, La Cetra Barockorchester Basel, RossoPorpora, La fonte musica, La Compagnia del Madrigale and Vox Luminis, and with contemporary ensembles such as Cantando Admont, L’arsenale and Schallfeld.

Recent highlights have included Salome in Bononcini’s oratorio La decollazione di San Giovanni Battista at the Retz Festival and Euridice in Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo at the Teatro Fraschini di Pavia, the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Concertgebouw in Bruges, deSingel in Antwerp and the Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht.

Her repertory also includes Monteverdi’s madrigals and Vespro della Beata Vergine, Bach’s Mass in B minor and St John Passion and Handel’s Messiah and Mozart’s Requiem, along with Dallapiccola’s Canti di prigionia, Ligeti’s Aventures, Berio’s Laborintus II, Chin’s Akrostichon-Wortspiel and Furrer’s a sei voci. She has also taken part in world premieres at the Venice Biennale, at IRCAM in Paris and at the National Operas of Kyiv and Prague and the Opéra de Dijon.

Her discography includes recordings for Erato, Arcana, Dynamic, Stradivarius, Tactus and Alia Vox, including the Bassani collection Affetti canori, cantate e ariette from 1684, Sacrati’s La finta pazza with Capella Mediterranea and Francesco Ciurlo’s Abstraction to the point of with the Divertimento Ensemble. In 2025 she participated in recordings of Starbynary’s Romeo and Juliet Pt. 1 and, with il Pomo d’Oro, Natale veneziano and Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas.

Anna Piroli was born in Cremona, initially studied literature, then went on to study singing at the Conservatorio di Milano and to complete a master’s degree in singing and vocal pedagogy at the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano. She received first prize at the Concorso Internazionale San Colombano in Piacenza in 2022 and the Premio Fatima Terzo in 2023. In 2016 she was a Michiko Hirayama Scholar at the Fondazione Scelsi and in 2023 she was a finalist in Barocco Europeo in Sacile.