Anna Castro Grinstein hails from Buenos Aires, Argentina. This year, she leads performances of The Barber of Seville as Opera Holland Park’s young artist conductor, and will also return to London to lead Gothic Opera’s production of Donizetti’s rarely performed Maria de Rudenz. She was conducting fellow for the 2023 Aix-en-Provence opera festival, and was selected as a Britten Pears Young Artist. In 2022, she was sponsored by Barbara Hannigan’s initiative Momentum, our future now, and served as artistic director of Colectivo Sonoro Ensemble 2015 to 2020. She earned her Bachelor’s Degree in conducting in Buenos Aires and later pursued a Master’s degree at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg in Germany.