Anna Beresford is a freelance musician working throughout the UK, based in Cardiff. Anna is the Musical Director of Caerphilly Community Chorus and the City of Newport Symphony Orchestra. She is Assistant Music Librarian at Welsh National Opera and sings with the BBC National Chorus of Wales. Anna regularly steps into freelance roles in score reading, assistant conducting and leading education courses. 

 

In August 2023, Anna was Assistant Chorus Director to the RNCM Chamber Choir in their BBC Proms performance of Ligeti's Requiem, alongside the Edvard Greig Cor and London Philharmonic Chorus. Anna was chosen to undertake an observer placement in July 2023 of the Royal Opera House on their production of La traviata. She made her debut with Northern Ballet in their autumn 2022 tour of The Little Mermaid, with a score by Sally Beamish, while she was Cover and Assistant Conductor. In 2022, she won the National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain's Weston Conductors Competition, becoming Associate Conductor with the ensemble and assistant to Guest Conductor, Martyn Brabbins. Anna works as an assistant with the Northern Film Orchestra and as a tutor for National Youth Arts Wales' training choir project Côr Skills. 

 

Anna studied an MMus in Orchestral Conducting with Choral Conducting at the Royal Northern College of Music. Her teachers were Mark Heron, Clark Rundell, David Hill and Stuart Overington. As part of the course she regularly assisted the conductors at the BBC Philharmonic and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic orchestras, as well as working with the Psappha ensemble and Chethams School of Music. During her time at the RNCM she conducted various college ensembles, the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, NEW Sinfonia, and Chethams Middle School Symphony Orchestra in concert. 

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On the first Glover-Edwards Women Conductors Programme in 2018/19, Anna studied with Sian Edwards at the Royal Academy of Music. She has also participated in various masterclasses and has taken part in Women Conductors' programmes with the RPS and Royal Opera House. 

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