Artists
Mi Corazón español
Quito Gato
Born in Buenos Aires, he graduated in piano and guitar from the Conservatorio Nacional de Música Carlos López Buchardo in Argentina. He then took various advanced courses in conducting, composition, recorder and percussion, in his own country and in Santiago de Chile, Brasilia, Curitiba and Boston.
Since 1992 he has studied and worked in the field of early music with period instruments such as the lute, baroque guitar, vihuela and theorbo under the direction of Hopkinson Smith and Eduardo Egüez.
He has performed as director, soloist and member of various ensembles in the main theatres of South America, the United States and Europe. He has also toured extensively in Asia, presenting concerts of Spanish-American baroque music in Malaysia, Thailand, South Korea, Indonesia and India among others.
He collaborates regularly with the ensembles L'Arpeggiata, Cappella Mediterranea, Le Concert d'Astrée, The Rare Fruits Council, Ensemble Clematis, Les Agremens, and Capilla Real de Madrid.
He has held lute and basso continuo seminars in Argentina, Brazil, Spain and France. In 2007, he founded the Glossarium ensemble, with which he tackles various programmes from the Spanish and South American Renaissance and Baroque periods.
He has made numerous recordings for the Virgin, Naive, K617, Alpha, Naxos, Sony, MA Recordings, Testigo and Musica Ficta labels, among others. As a composer and arranger, he works as an artistic producer in the advertising and film sectors.
Anna Reinhold
Mezzo-soprano
After studying at the Conservatoire de Paris (CNSMD) and the University of Vienna, Anna Reinhold made her stage debut under the direction of William Christie, as part of his academy, "Le Jardin des Voix"; this was followed by numerous engagements with Les Arts Florissants, in Europe and America.
She now collaborates regularly with many conductors and ensembles : Leonardo García Alarcón (Cappella Mediterranea), Raphaël Pichon (Pygmalion), Laurence Equilbey (Accentus and Insula Orchestra), Jonathan Cohen (Balearic Islands Simphony Orchestra, Arcangelo ensemble, Orchestre d'Auvergne), Vincent Dumestre (Le Poème Harmonique), Simon-Pierre Bestion (La Tempête), Ryan Brown (Lafayette Opera), John Butt (Edinburgh Orchestra), Josh van Veldhoven (Bachvereniging), Jonathan Cohen (Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest and the Orchestre d’Auvergne), Andrea Marcon (La Cetra Barockorchester Basel), Giovanni Antonini (Il Giardino Armonico), Stephan Macleod (Gli Angeli Genève) ...
At the Opera, she sang the title role of L'Italiana in Algeri (Rossini) and Mélisande (Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande) at the Atelier lyrique de Tourcoing, L'Italiana in Algeri again, at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Cybèle (Lully's Atys) at the Opéra Royal de Versailles and at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Menesto (Cavalli's Elena) at the Festival d'Aix en Provence, Pandora (Draghi's El Prometeo) at the Opéra de Dijon, Adèle and Al Cirbec (Le Mystère de l'écureuil bleu by Marc-Olivier Dupin) at the Opéra Comique in Paris, or the Second Camerist (Le Nain by Zemlinsky) at the Théâtre de Caen.
Particularly appreciated for her interpretations in concerts and chamber music repertoire, Anna Reinhold is a regular guest at festivals such as Les Musicales de Colmar (Schönberg's Pierrot Lunaire, Wagner's Wesendonck Lieder, Mahler's Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen ...), the Kaposvar Festival and the Budapest Festival Academy in Hungary, the Cork Festival in Ireland; she recently sang the cantata Phaedra (Britten) with the Orchestre régional de Normandie and performs in duet with guitarist and lutenist Quito Gato, in both baroque ("Lagrime mie") and popular ("Mi corazón espanol") programs.
She also founded the ensemble "Il Caravaggio" with harpsichordist Camille Delaforge, which can be heard in France and abroad, in French and Italian baroque repertoires.
Anna Reinhold made numerous recordings, notably with Raphaël Pichon and the Pygmalion ensemble (Bach's Hohe Messe), lutenist Thomas Dunford ("Labirinto d'Amore"), Cappella Mediterranea conducted by Leonardo García Alarcón ("Heroines of the Venetian Baroque"), William Christie's Les Arts Florissants (« N’espérez plus, mes yeux », « Bien que l'Amour », « Si vous vouliez un jour »), or the ensemble Il Caravaggio (« Madonna della Grazia »).
Highlights of her 2024-2025 season include the Garçon de cuisine (Rusalka) at the Opéra de Massy, a French tour with Campra's Carnaval de Venise and the ensemble Il Caravaggio, and numerous concerts with the ensembles Cappella Mediterranea, Il Caravaggio and La Parenthèse.
Anna Reinhold has been represented by RSB Artists since 2013.