Language Coach, Répétiteur

Annalisa Monticelli

Rigoletto, L’elisir d’amore

Biography

Annalisa Monticelli is a highly sought-after musician who has performed and recorded in Europe, Asia, North and South America as a soloist, with vocal and instrumental ensembles, and with various orchestras. She studied piano, voice, conducting, chamber music, jazz and education in Italy and the USA with renowned musicians including Bruno Canino, Daniel Rivera, Eugenia Rozental, Cinzia Gizzi and Douglas Weeks. She gave her first solo recital at the age of 10 and gained her first piano degree at the age of 16 with maximum marks. She started her professional coaching career working for the Montalto Opera programme in Montalto Ligure in Italy under the guidance of tenor Ugo Benelli and accompanying masterclasses by Wagnerian soprano Rebecca Turner and others. After three years in the USA, she moved to Ireland in 2014 to work as a répétiteur for the Royal Irish Academy of Music, where she later became Italian and vocal coach. Since then she has performed in all Irish major venues, released CDs, worked as Italian coach, accompanied masterclasses for the Institut StimmKünst in Zurich and performed and taught in Italy, England, Poland, France, Lithuania, Malaysia and north America. To further her education, she is undertaking a PhD in TU Dublin. Her research focuses on Michele Esposito and his piano school based in Dublin in the late nineteenth century. She is currently programme director/répétiteur at DkIT Dundalk; conductor of Anam Chamber Choir and executive director/chief accompanist/Italian coach for the Bassi Brugnatelli International Symposium.

May 2023