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The Amrican soprano, choral conductor and music educator, Anna Lenti, studied at the Aquinas Institute in Rochester, where she was involved with music and theater. In 2005, she won the Rochester Philharmonic League Ranlet Award. She obtained her Bachelor of Music degre in Vocal Performance from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester 2011, where her voice teacher was Cecile Saine; and her Master of Music degree in Choral Conducting from Westminster Choir College in 2013.
Anna Lenti's works as choral conductor, music educator, and soprano embraces a variety of musical genres. She specializes in early music and the works of J.S. Bach. An avid lover of ensemble performance, she has appeared with numerous professional ensembles throughout the USA, including Apollo's Fire (Director: Jeannette Sorrell) in Cleveland, Bach Choir of Holy Trinity (Director: Donald Meineke) in New York City (since 2013; Soprano Section Leader since 2014), Choir of Trinity Wall Street (Director: Julian Wachner) in New York City, TENET (Director: Jolle Greenleaf) in New York City, and Ensemble VIII in Austin, Texas.
Anna Lenti is a full-time Upper and Middle School Music Teacher at Kent Place School in Summit, New Jersey (since 2015), where she teaches choir, musical theatre, voice, and general music classes. She is also a private voice teacher and coach to students ranging from middle school to adulthood. As Assistant Conductor of the Oratorio Society of New York from 2015-2017, she assisted with the choir’s preparation for its multiple annual concerts at Carnegie Hall and St. John the Divine. She is the co-founder and Artistic Director of the project-based ensemble, Ampersand, which has performed premieres and collaborative performance experiences throughout the tri-state area and Cleveland.
Praised by the New York Times for her “beguiling soprano”, Anna Lenti has recently appeared as a soloist in Antonio Vivaldi’s Gloria and George Frideric Handel’s Dixit Dominus with Fairfield County Chorale and Orchestra, joined New York Polyphony for a concert of Italian music at the Amherst Early Music Festival, performed for an interdisciplinary installation at the Matthew Barney Art Studio, and appeared as a soloist with TENET on their Michael Praetorius's Vespers program. Anna performs regularly with Bach Vespers at Holy Trinity, Choir of Trinity Wall Street, Choir of St. Luke in the Fields, Clarion Music Ensemble, Sounding Light, Manhattan Chorale, Great Music in a Great Space, and Apollo's Fire.
In May 2014, Anna Lenti made her Carnegie Hall debut as the soprano soloist in a premier of a new work by Ola Gjeilo, written for the Manhattan Chorale. She has also appeared as a soloist on the Carnegie Hall stage in Felix Mendelssohn’s Elijah, and at Kodak Hall at the Eastman Theatre for Johannes Brahms' Requiem. She has performed on the professional operatic stage at the Spoleto Festival and the Lincoln Center Festival (Matsukaze).
Anna Lenti currently lives in New York City. When she is not making music, you can find her doing yoga, hiking, running, or knitting scarves for her friends during the cold |
