Sabrina Avantario

Sabrina Avantario is an Italian pianist, opera vocal coach, Expert in Artistic Vocology also trained as singer, composer and (choir)conductor, currently based in Antwerp (Belgium), with vast experience in Italian repertoire. She has worked in numerous international opera productions and extensively in Lieder recitals (winning several chamber music awards).

Her international experience includes working in Belgium (regularly at Opera Ballet Vlaanderen and de Munt/la Monnaie), Greece (Greek National Opera), Switzerland (Luzern and Bern Opera House), Ireland (Wexford Festival Opera), Germany (Staatstheater Kassel), Japan (Otsu and Tokyo Bunkamura Hall), Lebanon (Al Bustan Festival, Beirut), Bahrein and many theatres in Italy (Teatro Comunale of Bologna, Festival dei due mondi of Spoleto, Ferrara Musica, a.o.). Conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Ottavio Dantone, Vladimir and Dmitri Jurowsky, Umberto Benedetti Michelangeli, Alberto Zedda, Alexander Joel; the composer Giancarlo Menotti; directors such as Michael Hampe, Luca Ronconi, Graham Vick, are some of the personalities she has worked with throughout her over thirty years of activity.

Sabrina Avantario worked from 1995 to 2015 at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro as chief pianist and coach (Responsabile musicale).

She is Studienleiter, i.e. Head and Faculty member of the singing department at the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp, where she also founded a Vocology Laboratory.

She gives regularly Masterclasses at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels and has collaborated with the Royal Conservatory of Wallonia in Liège.

She is since 2023 founder and president of G.I.V.A., the Italian Group of Artistic Vocologists.