Soprano, professor, composer and producer, Ana Maria Pinto was born in Porto and completed her musical studies at ESMAE and UdK Berlin. Ana Maria Pinto won a scholarship from the Foundations Walter-Kaminsky and Calouste Gulbenkian. Pinto has worked since 2015 in projects related to Arts Education with the connection between the Human Beings and Nature in view. At the end of 2016, Ana Maria created and founded Novaterra, Associação Cultural Arte e Ambiente. In 2020, she created the Jardim Studium, where musical production merges with artistic residencies in the middle of the Nature. In 2021 founded her school Voz da Terra.
As a lyrical singer, Ana Maria Pinto has a large repertoire, with special emphasis on Oratorio and Lied. In opera she played roles such as Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro), Elle (La voix humaine), Blanche de La Force (Dialogues des Carmélites), Musetta (La Bohème), and Kumudha (A flowering tree, John Adams).
Ana Maria Pinto has performed in venues such as the Victoria Hall in Geneva, the National Theater in Kosice (Hungary), the Cathedral in Berlin or the Chapelle de la Trinité in Lyon, the Konzerthaus in Izmir, Turkey, as well as the Konzerthaus in Rzeszów, Poland.
She played the role of Cecilia in the film "Casanova Variations", where she acted with John Mallkovich and sang with tenor Jonas Kaufmann.
Ana Maria recorded songs by Fernando Lopes Graça and Vianna da Motta with pianist Nuno Vieira de Almeida and in January 2017 released the album Anterianas, with music by Luís de Freitas Branco and Franz Schubert. In November of the same year, she released her first album of original songs Seven Songs for a New Earth.
In order to promote the exchange between classical artists and African musical culture, Ana Maria Pinto has performed several concerts with African musicians in Portugal, Namibia, and Guinea Bissau.
Ana conducts, composes and produces performances for the four choirs she founded within Novaterra.
