Pia Davila
The versatile soprano Pia Davila is especially active in both early and contemporary music. She is committed to new forms of musical theatre and has participated in numerous world premieres.
With just a few years, Pia Davila has made a name for herself in the world of opera. Her first engagements took her to the Städtische Bühnen Osnabrück and to the Theater Bremen. At the Hamburg State Opera she has sung in Ring and Wrestling, Purcell’s The Fairy Queen and, in 2022, the world premiere of Lorenzo Romano’s La Luna, and at the Deutsche Oper Berlin she has sung in the Ukrainian composer Alexandra Filonenko’s Ein Geschäft mit Träumen. At the Dutch National Opera she has performed leading roles in Stockhausen’s operatic cycle Licht directed by Pierre Audi, and she has sung Donnerstag under Maxime Pascal at the Philharmonie de Paris, and Sonntag at the Festival d’Automne. In 2022 she appeared in Once to be realised under Cordula Bürgi at the Munich Biennale and at the Onassis Cultural Center in Athens. In March 2022 she sang Jasmin in Haas’s Koma at the State Theatre in Braunschweig.
Pia Davila’s busy concert activity has taken her to important venues such as the Berlin Konzerthaus, the Frauenkirche in Dresden, the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg and the Muziekgebouw in Amsterdam. Important performances have included collaborations with Vox Luminis, Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy with Martha Argerich, Schumann’s Das Paradies und die Peri with the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra under Sylvain Cambreling, Manfred Trojahn’s Four Women of Shakespeare with the Jewish Chamber Orchestra Munich and, in 2023, the world premiere of Jörg Widmann’s Kantate at the Leipzig Bachfest.
She regularly works with the Baroque ensemble Musica getutscht. In March 2024 they released their joint album Dolente partita, featuring works by Monteverdi, Frescobaldi and Merula.
From Berlin, Pia Davila studied classical guitar at the University of the Arts Berlin, before switching to singing studies at the Hamburg University of Music and Theatre. She has participated in masterclasses with Deborah York, Brigitte Fassbaender, Thomas Hampson and Peter Gülke, among others, and has worked with Christiane Oelze.
She was a scholarship-holder at the Heidelberg Spring Liedakademie, and an award-winner at the singing competition of Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg, has been nominated several times for an OPUS Klassik and was welcomed to the 2019 New Year reception at the Bellevue Palace in honour of her work with refugees.