Gabriella Pace
A two-time winner of the Carlos Gomes Prize ‘Best Female Singer’ in Brazil, Gabriella has worked with distinguished conductors such as Lorin Maazel, Marin Alsop, Andreas Stoehr, Isaac Karabtchevsky, Pier Giorgio Morandi, Jaime Martin, Christian Vásquez, Christian Kluxen, Fabio Mechetti and Roberto Minczuk.
In 2015 she took part in the Kerteminde Chamber Music Festival in Denmark, appearing with Trio
con Brio Copenhagen, David Kadouch and Andreas Brantelid.
In 2016 and 2017 at Ekestad Chamber Music Festival in Sweden and at Glyptoteket in Copenhagen she sang recitals with the great Swedish pianist Bengt Forsberg.
Among her current opera roles are Jenůfa, Katia Kabanová, Liù, Vittelia, Illia, Pamina.
She has also appeared as a soloist in Mahler’s Fourth and Eight Symphonies, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Orff’s Carmina Burana, Mendelssohn’s Lobgesang, Mozart’s Requiem, Rossini’s Stabat Mater.
Recordings include the Requiem Ebraico by Zeisl with OSESP (Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo), Villa-Lobos’ Canção do Amor with Orquestra Filarmônica de Minas Gerais (Naxos) and Ciclo Portinari e Outras Telas Sonoras by João Guilherme Ripper.
Engagements for 2023 include Fiordiligi in Mozart’s Così fan Tutte in São Paulo, Les Noces by Stravinsky in Rio de Janeiro, Ana da Cunha in Piedade in Manaus, Amazonas and Domitila in Milan, both operas by the Brazilian composer João Guilherme Ripper.
Gabriella started her music and vocal studies with her father, Héctor Pace, and later on studied with Leilah Farah in São Paulo and Pier Miranda Ferraro in Milan.