Violinist
Anna began playing violin at the age of three in the Suzuki String School of Guelph. Her mother, Daphne Hughes, a founder of the school, was her first teacher, followed by Tom Wermuth for the rest of her time at the school. Anna was a member of the Guelph and Kitchener-Waterloo youth orchestras and a member of the senior-level touring string orchestra of the Suzuki String School of Guelph. She also played with the National Youth Orchestra of Canada for two summers. After high school, Anna completed the Orchestral Training Programme at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto and then went on to complete a Bachelor of Music Performance degree at the Cleveland Institute of Music, including a year of Suzuki Pedagogy training at that same institution.
As a violinist, Anna has freelanced with various orchestras and ensembles in Ontario, Manitoba, and southern England, including the Winnipeg Symphony, the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, Hamilton Philharmonic, and Windsor Symphony. For almost a decade, she was a tenured member of the Niagara Symphony and was also the second violinist of Brock University’s Walker String Quartet for three years.
Teacher
As a dedicated violin teacher, Anna has enjoyed teaching at Suzuki Institutes and Camps in Newfoundland, Alberta, British Columbia, Quebec, the Yukon, and Ontario. Currently, she has a private teaching studio in Guelph and Kitchener, and welcomes all ages and levels of students.
Arts Administrator
Anna enjoys combining her teaching and playing with arts administration work. She was the Coordinator of the University of Manitoba Suzuki Program and she was the Event Coordinator for the Suzuki String School of Guelph. She is currently the Personnel and Artist Manager for the Niagara Symphony.
She is a flexible and talented administrator with a deep understanding of the structures and challenges of arts organizations in the 21st century. She has exemplary communication skills and a passion for interfacing between artists and management.