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Anna has a keen interest in period instrument playing and has played in period ensembles of all shapes and sizes. She plays regularly with the Dunedin Consort. Her interest started at the Birmingham Conservatoire, where she played in the Capelle Baroque Orchestra for period instruments. Her first teacher on the baroque violin was Dianne Terry, and while at the Conservatoire she also studied with Nicolette Moonen.
While in Birmingham Anna also acquired her baroque violin from a friend. The violin is by John Milnes, Oxford, and was built in 1999, and this is the violin she still
plays. Her baroque bow was made by Christopher Halstead.
After moving to Glasgow, Anna studied baroque violin with Ruth Slater at the RSAMD and played regularly as a co-leader with Edinburgh Symphony Baroque and also with Dunedin Consort. She continues to play in the majority of baroque performances in the area. Recent engagemants includes Bach’s Christmas Oratorio.
In the summer of 2007 Anna did a tour of Sweden with a group called Baroqolie. The name was intended as a pun on the vegetable, and worked well for most people, but a few people didn’t feel the name matched the serious style and repertoire of the group. Nevertheless the tour was a great success with two different programmes, covering music by Bach, Corelli, Purcell, Telemann and Vivaldi.
Anna loves the music of Bach, especially the Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin, the Sonatas for solo cello, the large choral works like the Passions and the B Minor Mass and generally everything else that he wrote.
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