Violinist. Fidl Player. Educator.
Illustrations by Alban Low
Training initially in Classical music, Anna graduated from Manchester University in 2015 with a BA in Music where she specialised in Performance and Ethnomusicology.
She has gigged, toured and taught across London and the UK, including
Cecil Sharp House, Southbank Centre’s Friday Tonic series and The Jazz Cafe , Bridgewater Hall, Sage Gateshead, and multiple tours for the National Rural Touring Forum.
Anna is one of the UK’s leading performers and teachers of the Klezmer fiddle tradition.
Notable appearences include a BBC3 live session with Grammy Award nominated Yiddish Glory and
an onstage role in the highly critically acclaimed production of Indecent alongside Musical Director and Clarinetist Merlin Shepherd.
She performs widely as part of Klezmer trio Loshn and has made up the faculty on both national and international workshops including
Klezfest London
KlezNorth Derbyshire
and Friling Festival in Austria.
Anna is currently training to be a Music Therapist at the University of Limerick
Her debut album is currently in Research and Development and is supported and funded by:
“a talented and creative musician who has made a great impact on the Klezmer scene in the UK. She is one of only a handful of fiddle players worldwide dedicated to the practise of Yiddish Historically Informed Performance”
- Susi Evans.
“Anna’s musicality shines through. Her attention to detail as a player of traditional klezmer music is excellent and true to style…not only that but she’s generous with her knowledge and a great educator”
- Merlin Shepherd