Originally from Swansea in Wales, Anna is an aspiring opera singer and recent graduate of the University of Cambridge where she studied Music.

Growing up, the various demands of opera grew independently from one another for Anna. She harnessed her love for singing through her membership of her school and sixth form’s respective choirs, as well as the Ariosa Singers and Swansea Philharmonic Choir, while her love for acting was nurtured in her membership of West Glamorgan Youth Theatre Company. The two came together in perfect harmony upon her discovery of her love of opera at university. Also at home, she gained the ATCL (2015) and ARSM (2017) diplomas in singing, and won the Heather James Piano Prize (2015) for her mark in Grade 8 Piano (ABRSM).

As an aspiring opera singer, Anna spent as much her time at Cambridge singing as much opera as possible. She has sung in the choruses of Holst’s Savitri (CUOS, ADC Theatre, 2017), Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel (Empyrean Ensemble, Trinity College Chapel, 2017), and Bizet’s Carmen (CUOS, West Road Concert Hall, 2019). She has sung the roles of Elsie in Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Yeomen of the Guard (CUGSS, Robinson College Auditorium, 2018) (available to watch in the 'videos' tab!), Marianna in Rossini’s Il signor Bruschino (CUOS, Emmanuel College Chapel, 2018), La suora infermiera in Puccini’s Suor Angelica (Empyrean Ensemble, Trinity College Chapel, 2018), Princess Ida in Gilbert and Sullivan’s Princess Ida (CUGSS, Minack Theatre, 2019), and Milly in Thomas Chesworth and Paul Norris’s The Wings of the Dove and The Worm in Samuel Macdonald’s Jonah on the Hill; both premiered in a festival of student-written opera named CUOS Shorts (CUOS, Trinity College Chapel, 2020) (and both also available to watch in the 'videos' tab). For her final recital at university she compiled a one-act one-woman opera named ‘The Scorned Woman,' (the submission for which you can ALSO find in the 'videos' tab!) using songs of various twentieth-century British and American composers such as Benjamin Britten and Samuel Barber.

Anna’s ensemble work during her time at university has afforded her many exciting opportunities, too. Her time as a choral scholar in Homerton College Charter Choir took her all over Europe, touring Germany (2017), the Czech Republic (2018), and France (2019). She recorded Till all the place with music ring with the choir in 2019.  She had the opportunity to sing the soprano solo in excerpts from Handel’s Messiah at Homerton’s 250th Anniversary Celebration, and she deems her performance of ‘Pie Jesu’ in Fauré’s Requiem at St-Martin-in-the-Fields (2019) with the choir as her most prominent singing engagement to date (available to listen to on the home page). She was a regular deputy for multiple other choirs, most frequently joining Downing College Chapel Choir, notably in their tours to North America (2018) and Hungary (2019). She is also a member of Vox Cantab; a project-based choir. Her extra-curricular activities spread to a cappella singing witnessing her appointment as Musical Director (2018-20) and Co-President (2019-20) of the Fitz Sirens; an all-female group. She took on the roles of Recitals Manager and President of the Homerton College Music Society in her second and final years respectively. For the latter role, she was awarded the Pointon Prize for an undergraduate student reading Music who made the most distinctive and valuable contribution to the musical life of the College that year.

Over the next year Anna plans to freelance as a musician while she prepares for postgraduate conservatoire auditions. She looks forward to singing with Vox Cantab, Swansea’s St Mary’s Church, and the National Chorus of Wales when circumstances allow. She hopes to sustain solo performance practice, too, by singing livestreamed recitals in Cambridge and Guildford, and eagerly anticipates staging Menotti’s The Telephone next year in Jesus College Chapel.

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