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Biography English born Anna Starr commenced her studies on modern oboe and recorder in Australia where she grew up. She completed her Bachelor of Music at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music, studying with Barry Davis and Antony Chesterman. During this time she was the recipient of numerous Conservatorium prizes. Following her graduation, Anna chose to specialize on historical instruments, and moved to Europe in 1999 in order to undertake studies in Holland and France. She graduated with a Master's Degree in Historical Oboes from the Sweelinck Conservatorium van Amsterdam studying with Alfredo Bernardini, and a Mastère de practique de l'orchestre classique et romantique from the Centre d'Etudes Supérieure de Musique et de Danse de Poitou-Charantes, with Marcel Ponseele. Anna has performed, recorded and broadcast with baroque and classical orchestras and chamber music ensembles in America, Australia, and virtually every European country. Since 2010, she has been based in far north Norway where she is a founding member of Brøstadbotn Barokk Band and plays regularly with all of Norway’s baroque orchestras. She continues to tour with the major European orchestras, working with ensembles such as Concerto Copenhagen, Helsinki Baroque Orchestra, Les Talens Lyriques, Le Cercle de l’Harmonie, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Arte dei Suonatori, Holland Baroque Society. In addition to this, Anna is a regular visitor to Australia, working with The Australian Chamber Orchestra and the Fifth Continent Ensemble and in chamber music collaborations with other Australian period instrument specialists. Anna is most at home as a chamber music player, a genre she is passionate about, and together with her own ensembles has won the International Young Artists Presentation in Antwerp, the second prize in the Brugge Early Music Competition for chamber music, and the third prize in the Van Wassenaer Concours in The Hague. As a soloist, Anna’s first commercial solo recording was released in 2004 as part of the Complete Chamber Music of François Couperin with Musica ad Rhenum. A second cd, the complete solo oboe repertoire of CPE Bach, will be released late in 2011, also with the Brilliant Classics Label. She has performed and broadcast concerti with New Dutch Academy in The Netherlands, Arte dei Suonatori in Poland, and the Fifth Continent Ensemble in Australia, and was a finalist in the International Telemann Competition in Magdeburg.
When Anna is not making music, she is happiest out in the stunning
wilderness of her homeland, climbing a mountain, sea kayaking or skiing.
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