Sabrina Avantario is an Italian pianist and vocal coach specialising in opera and an expert in artistic vocology (with a Master's degree from the University of Bologna in 2022 cum laude). She is also trained as a singer, composer, choir conductor and conductor, based in Antwerp (Belgium) since 2009, with extensive experience in the Italian repertoire. She has participated in numerous international opera productions and song recitals (winning several chamber music awards).
Her international experience includes working in Belgium (at Opera Ballet Vlaanderen and La Monnaie), Greece (Greek National Opera), Switzerland (Lucerne and Bern Opera House), Ireland (Wexford Festival Opera), Germany (Staatstheater Kassel), Japan (Otsu and Tokyo Bunkamura Hall), Lebanon (Al Bustan Festival, Beirut), Bahrain and Italy (Teatro Comunale in Bologna, Festival dei due mondi in Spoleto, Ferrara Musica, among others).
Conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Ottavio Dantone, Vladimir and Dmitri Jurowsky, Umberto Benedetti Michelangeli, Alberto Zedda, Alexander Joel; composer Giancarlo Menotti; directors such as Michael Hampe, Luca Ronconi and Graham Vick are some of the personalities with whom she has worked over the last thirty years.
Since 2023, she has been responsible for G.I.V.A., the Italian association of artistic vocologists.
Sabrina Avantario worked at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro from 1995 to 2015, more specifically as principal répétiteur for the last ten years.
Her experience as a teacher includes collaborations and masterclasses at the Royal Conservatoire of Brussels, the Royal Conservatoire of Wallonia in Liège and the Conservatoire of Ghent.
Between 2017 and 2025, she taught at the IOA (International Opera Academy) in Ghent.