Annalisa Pappano is one of America's leading viol players. As a member of the Ensemble Atalante she won a Diapason d'Or and Gramaphone Award. She has given concerts with the Houston Grand Opera, the Cincinnati Opera, the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra San Francisco and numerous other ensembles in Belgium, England, Ireland, Colombia and Canada. Beginning originally from the violin, she plays pardessus de viole, lirone and viola da gamba. She was a lecturer in viol and performance practice at the University of Cincinnati, is the founder and artistic director of the Catacoustic Consort, and led her own early music concert series in Cincinnati for 18 years before moving to Germany in 2019.