Priska Comploi

Born and raised in Val Badia (South Tyrol), she earned her diploma in recorder at the “Claudio Monteverdi” Conservatory in Bolzano. She continued her studies at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in the class of Conrad Steinmann. She also devoted herself to the study of the baroque oboe, joining the class of Alfredo Bernardini at the “Sweelinck Conservatorium” in Amsterdam. She completed her studies with a Master of Arts in Musical Performance in the class of Katharina Arfken at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis.

She pursues an active concert career that has led her to collaborate regularly with numerous early music ensembles such as: La Cetra, Il Giardino Armonico, Kammerorchester Basel, Cantus Cölln, I Barocchisti, Musica Fiorita, Diferencias, Venice Baroque Orchestra, Concerto Scirocco, Collegium 1704, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Europa Galante. She has recorded for Deutsche Grammophon Archiv, Decca Records, Pan Classics, Dynamic, Winter&Winter, Alpha Productions, and Naive.

Her musical journeys have taken her to perform throughout Europe, Israel, Georgia, India, the USA, Japan, South America, and Australia. As a soloist with the ensemble Musica Fiorita, she received excellent reviews for a CD dedicated to late Neapolitan Baroque recorder concertos.

She has a particular interest in early repertoire involving various reed instruments. She explores a wide repertoire, from the 15th century with bombards and shawms to the 19th century with the romantic oboe. The recorder—from its origins to its contemporary literature—remains her favored instrument, along with the baroque oboe.

She collaborates with several contemporary composers such as Helena Winkelmann, Rezo Kiknadze, and Silvan Loher, and has contributed to their acclaimed premieres.

Since 2018, she has been a professor of historical reeds and recorder at the “XL Festival y Curso International de Música Antigua de Daroca,” specializing in Renaissance repertoire. She is regularly invited to give seminars and masterclasses at the Lysenko Conservatory in Lviv (Ukraine), the Tbilisi Conservatory (Georgia), and La Paz (Bolivia).