Originally from Annapolis, Maryland, violist and violinist Anna Griffis performs as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral player throughout the United States and abroad. She has given recitals in Mexico, Turkey, Austria, Taiwan, and throughout North America and made her concerto debut with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra at the age of 16.
Equally at home on modern and period instruments and with early and contemporary music, Anna is a member of New Bedford Symphony (principal), Albany Symphony, Hartford Symphony, and Grand Harmonie (principal), and performs with the Rhode Island Philharmonic, Emmanuel Music, Marsh Chapel Collegium, Boston Baroque, New Trinity Baroque, Les Bostonades, Blue Heron, and Arcadia Players. She has worked closely with and premiered works by John McDonald, Erin Gee, Robert Carl, and Mischa Salkind-Pearl. Anna performs with and is executive director of the Ludovico Ensemble, a group focused on music of the European avant-garde, which celebrates its 17th season in 2019-20. Always happy to be playing chamber music, she co-founded Trio Speranza, winners of the Presentation Prize at the 2014 Early Music America Baroque Competition, was violinist/violist in the Anatolian Trio with whom she toured Turkey, and performs regularly with the South Coast Chamber Music Series. She has performed as a soloist with the Tufts Symphony Orchestra, New England Repertory Orchestra, and the Hartt Contemporary Ensemble.
As a baroque musician she attended the Baroque Performance Institute at Oberlin, Vancouver Early Music, Tafelmusik Summer Institute, and Amherst Early Music, where she led Conradi's Ariadne as concertmaster under the direction of Alexander Weimann. As a modern violist she attended the National Orchestral Institute and was a fellow at the Garth Newel Music Center and the Tanglewood Music Center. She has worked under the baton of Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Alan Gilbert, Stéphane Denève, Andrew Parrott, and John Williams. Anna has recorded for BMOP/sound, Albany Records, and Edition Lilac. She's a frequent studio session musician and can be heard on tracks by DJ Premiere, and has performed with pop artists Aimee Mann, Weird Al, Hugh Jackman, and Andrea Bocelli.
Anna studied violin performance at Lawrence University and The Hartt School of Music and received her Masters and Diploma in viola performance from Boston University as a student of Michelle LaCourse. In addition to her performing career, she is on faculty at the Dana Hall School of Music, maintains a private studio, and serves as the Coordinator of P.R. and Box Office for the Tufts University Music Department. When she's not playing, teaching, or administrating she likes to spend time in the great neighborhood of Lower Allston with her bassoon-playing, basketball-loving husband, and their cat, Pig.
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Equally at home on modern and period instruments and with early and contemporary music, Anna is a member of New Bedford Symphony (principal), Albany Symphony, Hartford Symphony, and Grand Harmonie (principal), and performs with the Rhode Island Philharmonic, Emmanuel Music, Marsh Chapel Collegium, Boston Baroque, New Trinity Baroque, Les Bostonades, Blue Heron, and Arcadia Players. She has worked closely with and premiered works by John McDonald, Erin Gee, Robert Carl, and Mischa Salkind-Pearl. Anna performs with and is executive director of the Ludovico Ensemble, a group focused on music of the European avant-garde, which celebrates its 17th season in 2019-20. Always happy to be playing chamber music, she co-founded Trio Speranza, winners of the Presentation Prize at the 2014 Early Music America Baroque Competition, was violinist/violist in the Anatolian Trio with whom she toured Turkey, and performs regularly with the South Coast Chamber Music Series. She has performed as a soloist with the Tufts Symphony Orchestra, New England Repertory Orchestra, and the Hartt Contemporary Ensemble.
As a baroque musician she attended the Baroque Performance Institute at Oberlin, Vancouver Early Music, Tafelmusik Summer Institute, and Amherst Early Music, where she led Conradi's Ariadne as concertmaster under the direction of Alexander Weimann. As a modern violist she attended the National Orchestral Institute and was a fellow at the Garth Newel Music Center and the Tanglewood Music Center. She has worked under the baton of Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Alan Gilbert, Stéphane Denève, Andrew Parrott, and John Williams. Anna has recorded for BMOP/sound, Albany Records, and Edition Lilac. She's a frequent studio session musician and can be heard on tracks by DJ Premiere, and has performed with pop artists Aimee Mann, Weird Al, Hugh Jackman, and Andrea Bocelli.
Anna studied violin performance at Lawrence University and The Hartt School of Music and received her Masters and Diploma in viola performance from Boston University as a student of Michelle LaCourse. In addition to her performing career, she is on faculty at the Dana Hall School of Music, maintains a private studio, and serves as the Coordinator of P.R. and Box Office for the Tufts University Music Department. When she's not playing, teaching, or administrating she likes to spend time in the great neighborhood of Lower Allston with her bassoon-playing, basketball-loving husband, and their cat, Pig.
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