Annalisa Pellegrini soprano

She graduated in Piano and Opera Singing at the Giulio Briccialdi Conservatory in Terni, then obtaining the II level Academic Diploma in Baroque Singing under the guidance of contralto Gloria Banditelli. Finally, she graduated with full marks and honors in Choral Conducting and Choral Music at the Cherubini Conservatory in Florence, specializing in Sacred Music Choir Conducting. At the same time, she perfected her skills in Children’s Vocals with Maestro Colin Boldy, a professor at New College in Oxford. She studied Singing with Emma Kirkby, Katia Ricciarelli and Luciana Serra; continuing her studies with Maestro Robert Kettelson and Maestro Elio Battaglia at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. Specializing in Ancient Music and Sacred Music, she sang for Popes John Paul II, Benedict XVI, Francis I. She boasts the performance of numerous Mozart and Handel titles, but her extremely versatile vocal ability has led her to collaborate with various artists including the famous composer Fabrizio De Rossi Re and the actress Simona Marchini for music productions contemporary, the guitarist Stefano Palamidessi for chamber music, the baroque guitarist Rosario Cicero, the soprano Emma Kirkby and the traverse player Ashley Solomon for ancient music, the Sistine singers Raimundo Pereira Martinez and Giuseppe Dalli Cardillo with whom he founded the Quartetto Polifonico Romano, the singer Dillon – star of electronic music – whom he conducted in concert at the Parco della Musica Ennio Morricone in Rome. Among his productions, he includes first performances including the unpublished oratorio by Antonio Caldara entitled Il Martirio di San Terenziano, of which he sang the arias in preview at the Victoria International Festival in Malta. In 2021 she is the protagonist of a female recording project Eternal Feminine produced by Orpheus Music with pianist Oh Yunwoo for the recording of pieces composed between 1850 and 1950 by female composers including unpublished works by Gilda Ruta, and in 2024 the CD La Fantasia è un posto dove ci piove dentro dedicated to 16th-century polyphonic music was published by IMD Records, recorded during a live concert with the Quartetto Polifonico Romano broadcast by Rai Radio 3 for the RADIO 3 SUITE program. A passionate scholar of ancient music, she has published the essay La produzione musicale della Cappella Giulia nella seconda metà del ‘700 (tra musica sacra e musica profana) for the Colligite Fragmenta series and transcribed the unpublished oratorio by Antonio Caldara with a libretto by Giuseppe Piselli Martirio di San Terenziano. Musical production did not stop even during the Covid period, a period in which he took part in the productions of MUSICA RESONANTE: video-concerts of Sacred Music organized for the Lazio Region in March 2021. He began his career as a Choir Director by founding and directing the Children’s Choir of the Arts Academy Foundation with which he participated in the production of the operas Bohème and Tosca by Giacomo Puccini in the productions of the 2008 and 2009 seasons with the Rome Symphony Orchestra in which the soloists were Daniela Dessì and Fabio Armiliato at the Auditorium La Conciliazione in Rome, then conducting them on tour with a rare repertoire of medieval music in Birmingham, Oxford (Oriel College), Lincoln Cathedral, London (St Jame’s Church Piccadilly) and Vienna (Minoritenkirche). In 2010 he founded and directed the Choirs of the Civic School of Arts (the polyphonic choir Cantoria Nova Romana, the youth choir, the vocal ensemble RomEnsemble and the choir of children’s voices) in productions in Italy and on tour abroad, in France, England, Austria, the Czech Republic, Spain and South Korea. Among his various works, he directed the opera Chip and his Dog by Giancarlo Menotti, performed on the occasion of the Menotti Year at the Teatro Caio Melisso in Spoleto; in Rome, the first national performance of Italique, an opera for reciting voice, soloists, choir of two voices and a plucked ensemble composed by Francois Laurent for the event “Les Jour de France a Rome”; in Paris, at the Auditorium of the Conservatoire Ravel,
the world premiere of Tu es Petrus, a series of unpublished compositions from the 18th century in Rome that she herself found in the Cappella Giulia archive and transcribed in modern notation. In May 2019, she collaborated as director and trainer of the Civica Scuola delle Arti Youth Choir and the CSA Children’s Choir, with the Berliner Philarmoniker orchestra (conducted by Maestro Simon Halsey) at the Philarmonie auditorium in Berlin for the production of There Was a Child, an oratorio for soloists, polyphonic choir, children’s choir and orchestra composed by Jonathan Dove. In December 2022, she made her debut in Rome conducting Purcell’s opera Dido end Aeneas for the season “Lo Spettacolo dal Vivo fuori dal Centro – La Cultura di Tutti” promoted by MIUR and Roma Capitale. In June 2024 in St. Petersburg (Russia) he conducted the Russian instrumental ensemble Cappella Barocca Golden Age and the female vocal ensemble RomEnsemble in the concert Masterpieces of the Italian Baroque at Jaani Kirik and in the concert The Magic of the Italian Baroque at the prestigious Maltese Chapel of the Vorontsov Palace. In September 2024 he participated as a conductor in the concert Musica dietro le grate dedicated to musical productions in Italian female convents in the 18th century, a concert scheduled in the Leonardo Leo Baroque Festival in Puglia.
He recently took part in the film Il Ragazzo dai pantaloni Rosa as director of the Coro Giovanile and the Coro Polifonico Cantoria Nova Romana with which he recorded the soundtrack of the film and participated in the filming of the same.
A teacher of Choral Conducting at the Corelli Conservatory of Messina, since 2018 he has collaborated with the Cultural Council of the Diocese of Orvieto – Todi as a musical consultant, at the invitation of Don Alessandro Fortunati, Episcopal Vicar for Culture of the Diocese of Orvieto-Todi.