Annya Andrea Pinto Figueroa

Born in Lota, Chile, in 1990. From 2019 to 2023, she studied at the Reina Sofía School of Music’s Fundación Ramón Areces “Alfredo Kraus” Voice Chair, with professor Susan Bullock CBE, among others. Her Majesty Queen Sofía handed her the Diploma to the most outstanding student of her chair in the 2022-2023 academic year.

She is a Chilean soprano and music teacher who graduated from the University of Concepción. She studied with bass-baritone Rodrigo Navarrete, as well as with Maureen Marambio, Enedina Lloris, Manuela Custer, and Victoria Manso. She has attended masterclasses by 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 Genius in “Die Zauberflote”; Giannetta in “L’elisir d’amore”; Despina in “Cosi 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 the Lutheran mass of J.S. Bach, the Stabat Mater of Poulenc, and Petite Messe Solennelle of Rossini along with the Europa Galante Orchestra with Fabio Biondi, at the Palau des Arts in Valencia and at the Musikfest Bremen (Germany).

As a student of the School, she has performed with the Fundación EDP Camerata, conducted by Paul Goodwin, within the Rising Generation series at Madrid's Auditorio Nacional and the Soloists of the 21st century series. She has also been a member of the Fundación Orange Voces Tempo Ensemble.