Biography

After completion of her Master at the prestigious Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et Danse in Lyon, Anna Astesano finished her studies at Trinity and Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in the Postgraduate Advanced Diploma course, graduating with Distinction.

In 2018 she was awarded the “Featured Young Performer” Award by the London Ear Festival and the "John Marson Prize 2018 for best performer". In 2019 she was awarded the First Prize in the chamber music section of the Camac North London Harp Competition. She has performed as a soloist and alongside chamber music ensembles in prestigious concert halls such as the Purcell Room, the Queen Elisabeth Hall, Wigmore Hall, Teatro "La Fenice" Stanze Apollinee in Venice, and the Dora Stoutzker Hall in Cardiff.

She has been working with the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale (RAI) in Turin, the Rome Opera, the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Kolobov Novaya Opera Theatre of Moscow, the “Bellini” Orchestra in Catania, the “Luigi Cherubini” Orchestra, the Teatro alla Scala Academy, the London Southbank Sinfonia, being conducted by Riccardo Muti, Daniele Gatti, Emmanuel Krivine, Antonio Pappano, Vladimir Jurowski, Ivan Fischer, David Coleman, Fabio Luisi, Dennis Russell Davies to name a few.

Her labeled recordings include Delos "December Chrysantemum" with chamber music ensemble Les Temps Modernes, Da Vinci "Ruutsu" and "A day in the Life of John Marson".