Soprano Annya Pinto was born in Lota (Chile) in 1990. Between 2019 and 2023, she studied in the Voice Chair “Alfredo Kraus” Fundación Ramón Areces at the Reina Sofía School of Music, with Professor Susan Bullock CBE, among others. In 2023, Her Majesty Queen Sofía presented her with the Diploma as the most outstanding student in her Chair.
She graduated as a music education teacher from the University of Concepción and studied with bass-baritone Rodrigo Navarrete, as well as with Maureen Marambio, Enedina Lloris, Manuela Custer and Victoria Manso. She has also taken part in masterclasses with Plácido Domingo, Jaume Aragall, Mariella Devia, Konrad Jarnot, Francisco Araiza, Adrian Thompson and Anne Sofie von Otter.
She has performed the operatic roles of Mercedes in “Carmen”; Second Spirit in “Die Zauberflöte”; Giannetta in “L’elisir d’amore”; Despina in “Così fan tutte”; Barbarina in “Le Nozze di Figaro”; Alisa in “Lucia di Lammermoor”; Clarice in “Il mondo della Luna”; and Bastienne in “Bastien und Bastienne”. She has also performed J. S. Bach’s Lutheran Mass, Poulenc’s “Stabat Mater”, and Rossini’s “Petite messe solennelle” with the Europa Galante orchestra conducted by Fabio Biondi, at the Palau de les Arts in Valencia and at the Musikfest Bremen (Germany).
As a student at the School, she has performed as a soloist with the Camerata Fundación EDP, conducted by Paul Goodwin, and in the series La Generación Ascendente (Auditorio Nacional) and Solistas del Siglo XXI. She has also been part of the Voces Tempo Group of Fundación Orange.