A member of the Venice Baroque Orchestra (VBO) since 2003, violinist Gianpiero Zanocco has performed as concertmaster with the orchestra throughout Europe, Asia, and the US. Not only a frequent soloist with VBO, he also performs with Sonatori della Gioiosa Marca, L’Arte dell’Arco, and Il Pomo d’Oro. Mr. Zanocco has recorded for Deutsche Grammophon, Warner Classics, Amadeus Records, Brilliant Classics, and ORT.

A native of Castelfranco Veneto, where he studied violin with Michele Lot and graduated with honors from the Conservatorio Agostino Steffani, Mr. Zanocco won several competitions, including first prize at the Mario Benvenuti Violin Competition in Vittorio Veneto, first prize at the International Chamber Music Competition Pinerolo e Torino Città Metropolitana, and first prize at the Carlo Soliva International Music Contest.

He performs Classical repertoire for violin and fortepiano with multi-instrumentalist Anna Fusek, with whom he recently recorded an album devoted to Mozart’s sonatas.

Swedish mezzo-soprano Ann Hallenberg regularly appears in opera houses such as Teatro alla Scala, Teatro La Fenice, Teatro Real, Theater an der Wien, Opernhaus Zürich, Opéra National de Paris, Opéra National de Lyon, Théâtre de La Monnaie, Dutch National Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper, Staatsoper Berlin, Semperoper Dresden, and Royal Swedish Opera. She also performs regularly at the Salzburg, Verbier, and Edinburgh festivals.

Ms. Hallenberg’s operatic repertoire includes a large number of roles by Monteverdi, Vivaldi, Handel, Gluck, Mozart, Rossini, and Massenet. Equally at home on the concert stage, she frequently appears in concert halls and festivals throughout Europe and North America. She has built an unusually vast repertoire that spans music from 17th-century works by Monteverdi and Cavalli to contemporary works by Franz Waxman and Daniel Börtz, via works by Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Berlioz, Brahms, Mahler, and Chausson.

Ms. Hallenberg has worked with such legendary conductors as Fabio Biondi, William Christie, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Emmanuelle Haïm, Philippe Herreweghe, Andrea Marcon, Marc Minkowski, Riccardo Muti, Kent Nagano, Sir Roger Norrington, Sir Antonio Pappano, Christophe Rousset, and Alberto Zedda. She has recorded more than 40 CDs and DVDs that feature music by Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, Mozart, Haydn, Gluck, Rossini, Mendelssohn, Brahms, and Bruckner, among others. At the International Opera Awards in 2016, her solo disc Agrippina won the award for Best Operatic Recital—her second win in the category.

Founded in 1997 by Baroque scholar and harpsichordist Andrea Marcon, the Venice Baroque Orchestra (VBO) is recognized as one of the finest period instrument ensembles. The orchestra has received critical acclaim for its concert and opera performances throughout North America, South America, Europe, and Asia, and has appeared in more cities across the US than any other Baroque orchestra in history.

Committed to rediscovering 17th- and 18th-century masterpieces under Mr. Marcon’s leadership, the VBO has given the modern premieres of Cavalli’s Orione; Vivaldi’s L’Atenaide and Andromeda liberata; Benedetto Marcello’s La morte d’Adone and Il trionfo della poesia, e della musica; and Boccherini’s La Clementina. With Teatro La Fenice, the orchestra has staged Cimarosa’s L’olimpiade, Handel’s Siroe (which was reprised at the Brooklyn Academy of Music), and Galuppi’s L’olimpiade. The orchestra is the subject of three recent video recordings, and its performances were also featured on Swiss TV in the documentary film by Richard Dindo, Vivaldi in Venice.

In 2018, VBO embarked on two tours with countertenor Franco Fagioli, with concerts in the UK, Slovenia, France, Japan, and China. Its annual US tour featured multi-instrumentalist Anna Fusek on recorders. VBO has performed at the George Enescu Festival with mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kožená, the Grafenegg Festival with harpist Xavier de Maistre, and the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival with mandolinist Avi Avital.

In recent seasons, VBO has performed Vivaldi’s Juditha triumphans at Carnegie Hall, the Barbican Centre, and the Palais des Beaux-Arts, marking the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the oratorio’s premiere in Venice. It also has given performances with violinist Viktoria Mullova in Vienna and Budapest. On recent tours, the group visited 18 US cities with violinist Nicola Benedetti, and Japan with mandolinist Avi Avital. The orchestra has collaborated on tours to Europe, the US, and Asia with renowned artists, including countertenor Philippe Jaroussky, contralto Marie-Nicole Lemieux, soprano Karina Gauvin, violinist Robert McDuffie, Ms. Kožená, and Mr. Avital.