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Anna is currently enjoying a very varied career. Her teaching practice in central Glasgow is thriving, and she also teaches for North Lanarkshire Council and RSAMD Musicworks.
In addition to modern violin Anna also plays the baroque violin, and has a strong interest in period performance. She has played regularly with the Dunedin Consort and while a student at the RSAMD used to co-lead the Edinburgh Symphony Baroque for many of their concerts.
On modern violin she has been leader of several orchestras, including the Nordic Youth Orchestra for three years and the RSAMD orchestras.
Anna started playing the violin at the age of five. She started out after her mum read an advertisement in the paper about violin lessons for children. The teacher used a homegrown variation on the Suzuki method and to begin with the parents learnt with the children. Most parents soon gave up, and so did Anna’s mum, but she has since taken it up again and receives lessons when Anna is in Sweden.
When Anna’s teacher moved to a different city, she started lessons at the council’s music
school, and then progressed through various orchestras and teachers. Aged 15 she was a member of a serious young quartet that rehearsed weekly, then progressed via a special music programme at De Geergymnasiet, the Swedish equivalent to High School or A-levels, where she received violin lessons with Roland Kjellström. It was while studying here that she started to think about going into music as a profession.
At 19 she studied at a special music college prep course at Lunnevads Folkhögskola
for a year, and from there moved to the UK to study at the Birmingham Conservatoire. It was at Birmingham Conservatoire that she became interested in period performance and started lessons with Dianne Terry and Nicolette Moonen. Her teachers on modern violin in Birmingham included Marat Bisengaliev, Jacqueline Ross and Clive Lander.
After graduating from the Birmingham Conservatoire in 2004 with a BMus (Hons) degree, Anna went on to study for two years at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow. There she studied violin with Ruth Crouch and baroque violin with Ruth Slater.
She received her Master of Music in 2006, and was also awarded the British Reserve Insurance Prize for Early Music in her final year at the RSAMD.
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