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Anu Komsi (born January 9, 1967, Kokkola, Finland) is a Finnish coloratura soprano.

She started her musical studies with flute and violin, often playing in the Kokkola Orchestra and the Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra. This instrumental background is a strong factor in her later success as a singer. As a teenager, together with her twin sister Piia Komsi, she started taking singing lessons in Kaustinen with Anni Kentala, who had herself studied with Lea Piltti, at one time Richard Strauss´s preferred coloratura. In 1986 she went on to study at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, in the class of Professor Liisa Linko-Malmio. In 1992 she passed her diploma in singing and subsequently deepened her studies with Régine Crespin and Marjut Hannula.

Early on in her career Anu Komsi gained fame as a pitch perfect interpreter of contemporary vocal music. Already in 1988, Esa-Pekka Salonen had premiered his "Floof" with her as soloist. In 1993 she held her