Anna Holmes

Sample Performance Experience

Chamber Music

> The Lowry Trio – lunchtime recital at Llandaff Cathedral 2023 performing Fanny Mendelssohn’s Piano Trio in D minor, Lili Boulanger’s D’un Soir Triste and
Gabriel Faure’s Piano Trio

> The Contolo Quartet – Shostakovich Summer School with The Brodsky Quartet
2022 performing Shostakovich’s quartets nos 8, 10 and 13

> Quartet Draig – performance at the Wigmore Hall for the Cavatina Intercollegiate String Quartet Competition 2021 performing Beethoven’s String Quartet op. 18 no. 5

> Quartet Draig – String Quartet in residence at the European String Teachers
Association Summer School 2021

> The Velaris Piano Quartet – awarded the McGrenery Prize for Chamber Music
and the Cardiff Violins Prize for Chamber Music (RWCMD)

> Quartet Draig – awarded the Bridgewood and Neitzert Chamber Music Prize
and the Albion String Quartet Prize

> The Llinyn Quartet – Three Stories about Home at the Three Choirs Festival
2018

> Coaching from world-class chamber musicians including Bartosz Woroch, Simon
Rowland-Jones, Alice Neary, Ursula Smith, Dorothea Vogel and Carole Presland

> Coaching/masterclasses with members of The Gould Trio, The Brodsky Quartet,
The Albion Quartet and The Tippet Quartet

Orchestral

> GSMD Symphony Orchestra projects including Stravinsky’s Firebird conducted
by Gianandrea Noseda, Messiaen’s Turangalîla-Symphonie and Mahler’s
Resurrection Symphony

> RWCMD Symphony Orchestra with repertoire including Mendelssohn’s Symphony no. 4 (leader), Szymanowski’s Violin Concerto no. 1 and Faure’s Requiem

> RWCMD String Soloists (leader) – project with visiting artist Timothy Ridout
with repertoire including Dobrinka Tabakova’s Suite in the Old Style

> Performances with The Meridian Sinfonia at Cadogan Hall and Southwark
Cathedral

> RWCMD String soloists – projects alongside world-class musicians Anthony
Marwood and Leonard Elschenbroich

> RWCMD Opera Orchestra (leader) and Chamber Orchestra (principal second)

Baroque Violin

> GSMD Historical Performance with the Academy of Ancient Music – UK tour performing Handel’s Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks

> The Cambridge Handel Opera Company – production of Handel’s opera
Tamerlano

> The Monteverdi Vespers with the RWCMD Early Music Department

> Chamber Opera Scenes with GSMD Historical Performance

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