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Biography

Anna is a multi award-winning Composer, Performer and Educator originally from Dorset in the UK. She studied Composition at the Royal Northern College of Music, and then spent two years as the Graduate Musician in Residence at Radley College where she taught Music Technology, Composition and ran a weekly Popular Music programme. 

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She has recently completed an MA in Opera-Making at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where she has collaborated with librettist Olivia Bell to devise the 25-minute chamber opera Lost Property for performance in July 2023.

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This year, she is a Britten Pears Young Artist, working with poet Katie Byford on a new 15-minute song cycle to be premiered by baritone Jonathan Eyers and pianist Emily Hoh at the Aldeburgh Festival 2024. She has been spending time in Aldeburgh, the home of Benjamin Britten, and has been receiving close mentorship from composer Sally Beamish OBE.

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Described as “making a name for herself” by Tom Mckinney on BBC Radio 3, her piece february twilight was recently selected as Song of the Day on Essential Classics.

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Anna's body of work ranges from uplifting vocal works and catchy pop songs to delicate electronic soundscapes and experimental multimedia pieces. Her work has been performed by ensembles such as the European Union Chamber Orchestra, the No Dice Collective, Kantos Chamber Choir, Juice Vocal Ensemble, the ORA Singers, the Hermes Experiment, the Gesualdo Six, the BBC Singers, members of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Psappha, The Listening Project, and the Consone Quartet.

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With a particular affinity for working with voices and text, Anna spent 2021 as a young composer collaborating with the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain, which involved an album released on NMC Recordings featuring two of her works. Her piece The Way Through the Woods written for the National Youth Choir was published in March 2023 by Stainer & Bell. 

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In 2021, Anna completed her tenure as composer-in-residence for the London Oriana Choir having won their five15 Young Composers’ Competition in 2019. This culminated in a showcase at the Southbank Centre as well as a Spotify release of her final work for the choir, In the Blue. The choir now regularly performs her works throughout their concert calendar.

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As a singer herself, she takes pride in writing idiomatically and joyfully for all types of voices, whilst also engaging with text in meaningful ways and exploring her own methods to make the human voice sound its most exciting.

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As a performer, she sings with the highly sought-after London Contemporary Voices and sang in various Manchester based ensembles during her undergraduate degree, with a particular interest in new music performance. In 2018 she toured Europe as a singer and synth player with the band New Order, which was subsequently showcased as part of the documentary Decades on Sky Arts.

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Anna was previously a composer with the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain in 2015, after having won the BBC Young Composer Competition in 2014 with her piece Underneath for voices and beat boxer.