About.

Ana Maria attended the Guildhall School of Music on a scholarship where she specialised in Early Music studying singing with Laura Sarti. In her final year she was awarded the Celia Mizony prize and along with her group ‘Musikfreunde’ won the Early Music Network Competition and joined Philip Pickett’s New London Consort.

Ana Maria’s work in opera includes performances of The Fairy Queen and Medee with William Christie and Les Arts Florissants, Handel’s Tamerlano with the European Union Baroque Orchestra and with the Opera Theatre Company of Ireland in Czechoslovakia, and in Monteverdi’s Poppea, Orfeo, and Purcell’s The Fairy Queen with Teatro Verdi di Pisa.

Her extensive concert work includes a European tours and recording of Handel’s Rinaldo with Christopher Hogwood and the Academy of Ancient Music, concerts in Russia with The Dufay Collective, solo cantatas with the ensemble Florilegium and a tour of Europe singing Handel’s solo motet “Silete Venti” with the E.U.B.O.

Ana Maria has recorded four CD’s of 18th Century English Songs with the group Invocation for Hyperion. She has also recorded a CD of solo songs of the Renaissance with the group Concordia.

Ana Maria works regularly with the celebrated conductor Laurence Cummings. They have performed together in venues around Europe including Norway, Italy and France, as well as in recitals for the London Handel Festival .

Ana Maria and Laurence have also recorded an album of Handel duets and solos: Love Handel. 

Most recently Ana Maria has joined forces with the world renowned Recorder player, Piers Adams, violinist Julia Bishop and harpsichordist David Wright creating a new group ‘Purcell’s Muse’ performing, in their unique way, all the baroque greats. 

If you visited the V&A exhibition Opera: Passion, Power and Politic, you may also have heard Ana Maria singing a Handel aria in the baroque section.