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.”

Highlights of her current season include performances in the Fabulous Fringe at the renowned Utrecht Early Music Festival, where she appears with her duo partner Niels Pfeffer, as well as collaboration with the ensemble Ælbgut for the Heinrich Schütz Music Festival.
In the 2022/23 and 2023/24 seasons, Anna was selected for the "Young Fellowship" program of the Netherlands Bach Society. In 2023, she performed the Soprano II solo in Bach’s Cantata BWV 191 with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra under Kristian Bezuidenhout, alongside renowned soloists at prestigious venues such as the Konzerthaus in Dortmund, Freiburg, Liederhalle Stuttgart, and the Berlin Philharmonie.
Anna performed as “Nunzia” and “Melissa” in ‘La liberazione di Ruggiero’ by F.Caccini during the Brighton Early Music Festival (UK) and was selected in 2021 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”.
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..
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 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.
Ensemble singing is another essential part of her musical life. She is a member of La Cetra Baroque Orchestra & Vocal Ensemble in Basel and regularly appears with ensembles such as Vox Luminis and the Zurich Sing-Akademie.
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