Pianist and singer Annalisa Monticelli is a highly sought-after musician, having performed internationally as a soloist, with ensembles and orchestras. Her passion for music started at a very young age, and she has dedicated her life to mastering various musical genres. She studied classical and jazz piano, voice, Accompaning for instruments and voice, conducting, musicology, chamber music, composition and music education in Italy, Argentina, and the USA, graduating with maximum Marks and honours.

She moved to Ireland to work as a collaborative pianist for the Royal Irish Academy of Music, where she later became Italian and vocal coach. In 2015, she became Lecturer-Repetiteur at Dundalk Institute of Technology, where she served as Lecturer and Program Director for the  Music and Musical Theatre programmes. In 2025, she joined the academic staff of Maynooth University as an academic performance tutor for the Musical theatre and rock/pop strands. 

Since she arrived in Ireland, she has appeared in all major Irish venues, has collaborated with INO as repetiteour and Italian Coach and has released several CDs. In 2025 she acted as repetiteur and vocal coach for Sweeney tood (organised by Irish musical theatre and the National concert hall) and she will return to her role for the upcoming production of west side story. In recent years, she performed and taught opera, diction, chamber music, piano, Irish art song and improvisation masterclasses/workshops in Spain, Italy, Portugal, England, Scotland, Switzerland, Poland, France, Malaysia, and the USA.

Annalisa is pianist, Musical Director, and co-arranger for ’The Morricone Experience’- a successful production touring across Ireland and the recently launched 'The Hans Zimmer Experience' and 'La Dolce Vita'. She is also pianist for the Irish-Latin band Baile an Salsa since 2018 and co-founder, pianist and singer for the Dublin-based Hibertango quintet.  her latest project sees her as pianist and musical director for 'andrew lloyd webber and beyond', a show that celebrates the art of music theatre. She is an eclectic musician, with more than twenty years of experience coaching and performing Chamber music and Opera, alongside Tango, Jazz and Latin-American Music; both as a pianist and a singer.​