Anna Astesano
After her Bachelor and Master studies at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et Danse in Lyon, Anna Astesano joined the harp class at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music in the Postgraduate Advanced Diploma course in London, graduating in 2018. Between 2014 and 2015 she has been harpist at “Teatro alla Scala” Academy in Milan.In June 2015 she won the audition as first harp at “Luigi Cherubini” Orchestra, conducted by Riccardo Muti.
In 2018 she worked as harpist of the Future Foyle First Programme, promoted by the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
Since 2017 she has been awarded scholarships offered by the Turin CRT Foundation, “De Sono” Association and Turin "Lions Club". In 2018 she was awarded the "John Marson Prize for best performer" and the “Featured Young Performer” Award by the London Ear Festival, playing as a soloist and in chamber music concerts with the Uroboros Ensemble.
In 2019 she won the First Prize at the London Camac Harp Competition
in the chamber music division, alongside flautist Emma Harding. She has collaborated with: the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale (RAI) in Turin, the "Teatro alla Scala'' Orchestra, the "Maggio Musicale Fiorentino'' Orchestra, the Kobolov Novaya Opera Theatre of Moscow, the London Southbank Sinfonia, under the baton of conductors such as Muti, Mehta, Pappano, Jurovskij, Krivine, Gatti, Luisi, Russell-Davies, Coleman.
She has performed as a soloist and alongside chamber music ensembles in prestigious British concert halls such as the Purcell Room, the Queen Elisabeth Hall, St. Martin's In-the-Fields, Wigmore Hall, Grange Park Opera and the Dora Stoutzker Hall in Cardiff. She has recorded three chamber music albums, under the label Delos and Da Vinci Classics. She is a Concordia Foundation and Park Lane Group Artist. Anna Astesano is teaching assistant in Gabriella Dall’Olio’s harp class at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and harp teacher at the "A. Scontrino" Conservatoire in Trapani. She is a member of the chamber duo The Girls in The magnesium Dress since 2019.