Irene Brigitte

Irene Brigitte Puzzo (born in Trieste in 1989) completed her Master’s Degree in Renaissance and Baroque Singing at the ‘Arrigo Pedrollo’ Conservatory in Vicenza with the thesis titled “Lágrimas de saudade: Contribution for a Contextualized Interpretation,” supervised by Stefano Lorenzetti and Hugo Soeiro Sanches. Currently, she is enrolled in the Artistic Studies PhD program at the University of Coimbra, focusing on 16th-century sung poetry in Portuguese under the guidance of José Abreu and Paulo Estudante. She is a collaborating researcher PhD Students of CECH (Centre for Classical and Humanistic Studies), involved in the musicological project “Worlds and Collections” (Mundos e Fundos). She also collaborates with CESEM – P PORTO as singer in a research project dedicated to Portuguese Renaissance music lead by Pedro Sousa Silva. Irene Brigitte Puzzo started her discographic activity in 2008, participating in various projects. In the realm of Early Music, her discography includes two albums with Arte Minima Ensemble, “Francisco de Santa Maria: Missa ‘O Beata Maria'” (Pan Classics, 2023) and “In splendoribus” (2021), the album “Royne des fleurs” with the ensemble Sesquialtera commissioned for the Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference 2021, and the critical edition of Du Fay’s medieval mass “Se la face ay pale,” directed by Claudia Caffagni (2017, Amadeus). Irene Brigitte Puzzo has expanded her Early Music studies by participating in numerous masterclasses led by notable figures such as Claudia Caffagni, Gemma Bertagnolli, Christian Hilz, Maria Cristina Kiehr, Emma Kirkby, Roberta Invernizzi, and Lia Serafini, among others. She has performed as both a soloist and chorister in prestigious European venues, including Milan’s Cathedral, the Olympic Theatre of Vicenza, Teatro Dal Verme, and Casa da Música of Porto.