Anna Tam

Who is Anna Tam?

Anna was born in London. She began studying the cello aged 6 at the Bromley Youth Music Trust. Later, as principal cello in their Symphony and Chamber orchestras she toured to Austria winning the Internationalen Jugendmusik-Festival in Vienna. Anna studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama from 2002 to 2006 with Leonard Stehn and then with Raphael Wallfisch. She continued her orchestral playing at the Guildhall School performing Schoenberg’s Five Pieces for Orchestra and Elliot Carter’s First Symphony and The Minotaur on Radio 3 with their Symphony Orchestra. She has also played with the Young Musician’s Symphony Orchestra and with the London Philharmonic Orchestra’s Future Firsts. In 2010 she will be performing with Opera de Bauge and Vocal Motions Elastic Theatre. She began playing chamber music aged 9 and has been a member of various groups since then performing with a piano quintet at the Wigmore Hall.