Bavarian Mezzo-Soprano Anna Bachleitner is specialized in Early Music and, as Südbadische Zeitung writes: “a highly flexible voice artist and richly equipped with nuanced colors of sound and expression.”
For the seasons 2022/2023 and 2023/2024, Anna joins the “Young Bach Fellow” program of the Nederlandse Bachvereniging.
In summer 2021 Anna performed as “Nunzia” and “Melissa” in ‘La liberazione di Ruggiero’ by F.Caccini during the Brighton Early Music Festival (UK) and was selected for the Confidencen Opera & Music Festival Academy (SE), where she was part of the new production ‘Hail! Bright Cecilia!’ and Charpentier’s opera “Les Arts Florrisant”.
Her chamber music formation Ensemble Arcula Canora was chosen to be part of the Fabolous Fringe Program at the Utrecht Early Music Festival 2021.

Anna is currently a member of the LaCetra Barockorchester & Vokalensemble in Basel (CH).
In 2022 she performed as “Donau” in BWV 206 under the direction of Guy van Waas with the Sweelinck Baroque Orchestra at venues such as the Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ.
Anna studied with Evelyn Tubb and Gerd Türk at the well-known Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel (CH) and the Conservatorium van Amsterdam in the class of Xenia Meijer. During her studies, she had the possibility to work with Anthony Rooley, Vaclav Luks, Andrea Marcon, Leonardo Garcia Alarcon, Bruce Dickey, Frithjof Smith, Jörg-Andreas Bötticher, and others.
She regularly performs in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, and The Netherlands. Amongst others she has performed in the ‘Abendmusiken in der Predigerkirche’ (dir. J.-A. Bötticher) in Basel (CH), in the concert series of ‘FAMB’(Freunde Alter Musik Basel) under the of Vaclav Lukas, Andrea Marcon, Jörg-Andreas Bötticher) in Basel, Offenes Palais Dresden (DE) and the Forum Alte Musik: St Gerold (A).
As a soloist, Anna has sung many of the major oratorical works of the baroque and classical period such as the passions by J.S.Bach, Oratories by G.F.Hänel, and sacred works by C.Monteverdi, W.A.Mozart and J.Haydn.
Along with her work with chamber music groups, Anna loves Baroque opera. In 2018 she took the leading role in Purcell’s Dido&Aeneas with Ensemble Locatelli under the direction of Thomas Chigioni in Bergamo. In a production of Händel’s Rodelinda by the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, she worked with stage director and specialist for baroque theatre Deda Christina Colonna. In 2020 Anna would have performed ‘Anima’ in La Rappresentatione di Anima, et di Corpo by E. de’Cavallieri with a staging by Carlos Harmuch, under the musical direction of Francesco Pedrini.
The roles of “Setso” in Händels “Giulio Caesare” and “Cherubino” in Mozarts “La nozze de Figaro” are also part of her repertoire.
Masterclasses with Magreet Honig, Ulrike Hofbauer, Elizabeth Dobbin, Anne Marie Dragosits and Jan van Elsacker deepened Anna’s love of Early Music. For Baroque gesture and acting, which is an important aspect of Anna’s current work, she works with Deda Christina Colonna, Sigrid t’Hooft, Jed Wentz and Laila Cathleen Neuman.

Anna has received awards and scholarships from the Karl-und-Lily-Till-Stiftung, Stiftung der Musikakademie Basel, Fonds Marie Lousie and the Bayerischer Staatspreis