Te Deum

The Argentine soprano Jaja Niborski completed her studies at the Universidad Nacional de las Artes in Buenos Aires as well as at the Haute École de Musique in Lausanne and at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. From 2016 to 2018, she was a member of the Ensemble Estudio Coral in Buenos Aires. In Europe, she has performed with ensembles such as Cappella Mediterranea, La Chapelle Harmonique, Los Elementos, La Boz Galana, Domus Artis, Ensemble Cantatio, Capella Reial de Catalunya, La Cetra Barockorchester, Gli Angeli Genève, Bern Vocal, L’Ensemble Vocal de Lausanne, Ensemble Diderot, Musique des Lumières, and Voces Suaves. She was a finalist and prizewinner in several competitions, including the Concorso Caffarelli (Italy, 2024), the Concours Kattenbourg (Switzerland, 2024), and the Pietro Antonio Cesti Competition (Austria, 2022). Most recently, she recorded the album “Singing in the City of Angels” with La Boz Galana. Her operatic repertoire includes roles such as Belinda (“Dido and Aeneas”), Papagena (“The Magic Flute”), the title role in “L’Eudirice”, Shepherdess (John Blow’s “Venus and Adonis”), Orazio (“Il Muzio Scevola”), and Fanny in Rossini’s “Cambiale di Matrimonio”, as well as roles in world premieres. In concert, she has appeared as a soprano soloist in works including Handel’s “Messiah”, “Silete Venti”, “Chandos Anthems”, and “Dettinger Te Deum”, Brahms’s “A German Requiem”, Purcell’s “Te Deum and Jubilate”, Vivaldi’s “Gloria”, Hasse’s “Sanctus Petrus et Sancta Maria Magdalena”, Telemann’s “Day of Judgment”, Zelenka’s “Missa die filii”, and Mozart’s “Exsultate, jubilate”. She has also given solo concerts with the Tiroler Symphonieorchester Innsbruck and the Ensemble Musicae Antiquae Collegium Varsoviense.

The soprano Anna Piroli is from Cremona, Italy. In addition to a bachelor’s degree in literature, she completed her vocal studies at the Conservatory of Milan and at the Conservatorio della Svizzera italiana in Lugano. She has received several awards, including the Michiko Hirayama Scholarship of the Fondazione Scelsi (2016), first prize at the San Colombano Competition for Sacred Music in Piacenza (2022), the Fatima Terzo Prize in Vicenza (2023), and a prize at the European Baroque Competition in Sacile (2023). Her recordings have been released by Erato, Arcana, Dynamic, Stradivarius, Tactus, and Alia Vox. Performances have brought Anna Piroli to some of Europe’s leading Baroque ensembles, including Collegium Vocale Gent, Il pomo d’oro, La Cetra Barockorchester, RossoPorpora, La fonte musica, La Compagnia del Madrigale, and Vox Luminis, as well as contemporary music ensembles such as Cantando Admont, Schallfeld Ensemble, Divertimento Ensemble, and L’arsenale. Since 2021, she has maintained a close artistic collaboration with Jordi Savall, including concerts with the Capella Reial de Catalunya and the ensemble Hespèrion XXI. She has sung in numerous world premieres, including at the Biennale di Venezia, IRCAM in Paris, the National Opera of Kyiv, the Prague Opera, and the Opéra de Dijon. Recent highlights include Handel’s "Jephta" on a European tour with Il pomo d’oro alongside Joyce DiDonato and Michael Spyres, Salome in Bononcini’s "La Decollazione di San Giovanni Battista" at the Retz Festival, and Euridice in Monteverdi’s "Orfeo" at the Teatro Fraschini in Pavia, the Wiener Konzerthaus, deSingel in Antwerp, Concertgebouw Brugge, and the Utrecht Early Music Festival.

The Swiss mezzo-soprano Lara Morger completed her vocal studies at the Bern University of the Arts with Tanja Ariane Baumgartner, graduating with distinction. She received further artistic inspiration from Christiane Iven and Brigitte Fassbaender. In 2024, she became the first Swiss singer to win both first prize and the audience prize at the International Bach Competition in Leipzig. Her wide-ranging repertoire, spanning from early Baroque to contemporary music, has already brought her to Europe’s major concert halls under the direction of renowned conductors such as Jordi Savall, Christoph Prégardien, and Kristian Sallinen, as well as to ensembles including lautten compagney Berlin and the Bern Symphony Orchestra. In opera, she sang, among other roles, the title role in Handel’s "Alessandro" at the E.T.A. Hoffmann Theater in Bamberg in 2022 under the direction of Gottfried von der Goltz. In 2025, she gave her critically acclaimed debut at the Salzburg Mozart Week.

The haute-contre tenor David Tricou studied in his hometown of Montpellier as well as at the Conservatory of Paris. He has sung in operas such as Rameau’s "Pigmalion" and "Anacréon" on tour with William Christie, Cavalli’s "L’Egisto" at the Opéra-Comique in Paris and in Luxembourg under Vincent Dumestre, and Rossi’s "Orfeo" in Versailles, Nancy, Bordeaux, and Caen under Raphaël Pichon. Further engagements include Rameau’s "Castor et Pollux" in Sablé and at the Festival de La Chaise-Dieu, John Blow’s "Vénus et Adonis" in Caen, Graun’s "Adriano in Siria" in Potsdam and Essen, Antonia Bembo’s "Ercole amante" in Stuttgart and Herne, as well as the title role in Rameau’s "Zoroastre" in Münster. With the ensemble la co[opéra]tive and Campra’s "Le carnaval de Venise", he toured throughout France, sang with Le Concert Spirituel in Lully’s "Persée" at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, and took part in world premieres in Metz and Modena. As an accomplished Mozart interpreter, his repertoire includes roles such as Tamino ("The Magic Flute"), Marzio ("Mitridate"), and Bastien ("Bastien and Bastienne"), as well as Almaviva in Rossini’s "Il barbiere di Siviglia" and Nemorino in Donizetti’s "L’elisir d’amore". In concert, he has appeared with ensembles including Les Arts Florissants, Les Correspondances, Le Banquet Céleste, il Gusto Barocco, and Ensemble 1700 under conductors such as William Christie, Hervé Niquet, Jörg Halubek, and Dorothee Oberlinger. He sang under Jordi Savall in Monteverdi’s "L’Orfeo" in Avignon, performed the role of Gardefeu in Offenbach’s "La Vie Parisienne" in Versailles, and toured with Vincent Dumestre and Lully’s "Armide" to Madrid, Paris, Toulouse, and Versailles.

The tenor Ferran Mitjans studied singing and violoncello at the Escolania de Montserrat and continued his training with the Cor Jove of the Orfeó Català, with the soprano Anna Ollet, and later at the Conservatori del Liceu in Barcelona and with teachers such as the countertenor Carlos Mena, the baritone Marcel Boone, and the soprano Marta Mathéu. In 2018, he was awarded the Salvat-Bach Scholarship and has since worked regularly with ensembles such as the Capella Reial de Catalunya under Jordi Savall and the Collegium Vocale Gent under Philippe Herreweghe. Under the direction of Jordi Savall, he has taken part in numerous recordings and concerts, including Mozart’s "Requiem" and Mass in C minor, Bach’s "Christmas Oratorio" and "St John Passion", Haydn’s "The Creation", Beethoven’s "Missa Solemnis", and Schumann’s "Paradise and the Peri". Ferran Mitjans is a founding member of the ensembles El Cor Cererols and Cristóbal de Morales, with which he is dedicated to the rediscovery and dissemination of the Iberian Renaissance repertoire and the musical tradition of Montserrat. Recent highlights include appearances as a soloist in Handel’s "Messiah" at the annual gathering of the Associació Messies Participatiu under the direction of Xavier Pastrana and with the orchestra Vespres d’Arnadí.

The baritone Mauro Borgioni studied at the Scuola Civica in Milan, the Conservatory of Cesena, and at the Fondation Royaumont. Projects with conductors such as Jordi Savall, Giovanni Antonini, Ottavio Dantone, and Alessandro De Marchi have brought him to venues including the Wiener Konzerthaus, the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, the Berlin Philharmonie, the Teatro Regio Torino, the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Teatro Massimo di Palermo, the Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona, and the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music. He has also performed at Carnegie Hall, the Chicago Symphony Center, and in Beijing. He sang the title role in Monteverdi’s "L’Orfeo" at the Teatro Regio di Torino, at the Monteverdi Festival in Cremona, at the Teatro Comunale di Ferrara, at the Opéra Grand Avignon, and again in 2025 with Michele Pasotti and La Fonte Musica on a European tour in Vienna, Antwerp, Bruges, and Utrecht. The title role in "Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria" brought him to Rome, Cremona, and Ravenna. He has repeatedly interpreted the role of Testo ("Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda"), including on a recording with La Fonte Musica. Other highlights include Garibaldo ("Rodelinda") at Theater Kiel, Astolfo ("Orlando furioso") and Aquilio ("Farnace") in Ferrara, as well as Aeneas ("Dido and Aeneas") in Palermo and Ravenna. In 2023, he sang the role of Jacob in the world premiere of the opera “The Song of the Ladder” by John Barber at the Teatro Metastasio di Prato. In concert, he has performed masses, cantatas, and oratorios by composers including Monteverdi, Bach, Vivaldi, Haydn, Mozart, and Handel. His discography includes, among others, the album "Venere e Marte" with I musici del Gran Principe, released in 2026.