Anna Katarzyna Ir

Anna Katarzyna Ir: Born in Poland, she has completed her musical studies in Italy at the “G. Martucci” Conservatory in Salerno, with Daniela Del Monaco.

She later pursued masterclasses with international artists and academics such as L. D' Intino, A. Berti, F. Previati, E. Scatarzi, A. Gjevang, M. Loritz, R. Himmelbauer, M. Frölich. From 2008 to 2015 made part of the “G. Verdi” Theater of Salerno opera choir (dir. Daniel Oren), singing also some soloist parts.
From 2014 she worked and won several auditions within Operatic Foundations (Teatro Lirico of Cagliari, Accademia Santa Cecilia in Rome, Teatro Lirico “G.Verdi” in Trieste, Arena di Verona, Teatro “San Carlo” in Naples).
Her concert activity is varied: sacred music, Lieder, Songs both as a soloist and in various chamber ensembles.
She has also performed roles as Zia Principessa and Suor Zelatrice (Puccini, Suor Angelica), Rosina (Rossini, The Barber of Seville), Angelina (Rossini, La Cenerentola), Musa/Niclausse (Offenbach, The Tales of Hoffmann) and smaller ones (Kate Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly, 1st Handmaiden of Puccini’s Turandot).
She sung in Italy, Poland, Germany, Turkey, Denmark, Saudi Arabia, China and Japan. Polyglot, she speaks currently Polish, Italian, French, English and Russian and she graduated in foreign languages from Akademia Pedagogiczna (Cracow).
From 2018 she works permanently at the Teatro Lirico “G. Verdi” of Trieste. She studies composition and choral conducting with A. Piani at the Conservatory of Udine.