Anna is a member of the European Union Youth Orchestra and of the Chamber Orchestra of the Europe Academy. She has played with the Spanish National Youth Orchestra, the Camerata del Cuarteto Casals, and the Catalonian National Youth Orchestra. She has served as concertmaster of the Valencia Youth Orchestra and made her solo debut with them at the Palau de les Arts.
Anna began her violin studies at the age of 8 with Victoria Lorente and was awarded the Prize for Excellence in both Violin and Chamber Music studies upon completing her professional training. She pursued advanced studies at the ESMUC (the Catalonian College of Music) under Yuri Volguin and, there, was awarded the Anna Riera Scholarship. She is currently pursuing a master’s degree at HMDK Stuttgart under Anke Dill.
During her four years with the Vivancos Quartet, she received coaching from the Casals Quartet and Kenedy Moretti. The quartet garnered First Prize at the International Cambra Romànica Competition in Andorra and represented the ESMUC at the International Pau Casals Festival in Prades.
As a member of various orchestras, Anna has played under the baton of Gianandrea Noseda, Vasily Petrenko, Antonio Pappano, Manfred Honeck, James Gaffigan, Gustavo Gimeno, Fabio Luisi, Juanjo Mena, Peter Stark and Vladimir Spivakov. She has also received lessons from Ivry Gitlis, Ingolf Turban, Mikhail Spivak, Andrea Obiso, Abel Tomàs, Vicente Balaguer, and Barbara Doll. She holds the position of First Violin Tutti in the Orquesta del Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía.
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- It stimulates my creativity to play in a group where I feel I have space to develop my own personality as I perform. I love chamber music and playing in an orchestra where all the different voices are carefully arranged. I find this musical dialogue inspiring, and I have a lot of fun with it.
- There is no particular musical period I prefer above the others. I love contemporary music, classical music, especially romantic music. In fact I like switching around, because each language is enriching.
- Whenever I step onto a stage, I feel two things: respect and gratitude; respect for the music and the people I will be playing with and the people we will be playing for; gratitude for being given this opportunity to enjoy and express myself and communicate through music. The adrenaline rush heightens these feelings.
- I would love to hear Isabelle Faust play the Bach Violin Sonatas and Partitas because the way she does it is amazing. I would also love to hear Daishin Kashimoto, Gilad Karni, Sol Gabetta and Nelson Goerner play Schumann’s Piano Quartet in E-flat major.
- What I remember most about my first concert with Nostrum Mare Camerata is how easy it was to work with everybody and how friendly people were even when we weren’t rehearsing. The concert was in the Torrevieja International Auditorium, and we had lots of fun on the way there. And, afterwards, I really enjoyed playing the concert itself.