Anna Burden

Anna Burden (* in Chicago ) is an American cellist and music teacher.

Burden had piano lessons from the age of six and switched to the cello at the age of eight. Her first teacher was Nell Novak , who taught her the Suzuki method . She later studied cello with Hans Jørgen Jensen at Northwestern University , with Joel Krosnick and Darrett Adkins at the Juilliard School and with Alan Stepansky at the Manhattan School of Music . She obtained her certification as a teacher using the Suzuki method at the School for Strings in New York City and at the Chicago Suzuki Institute with Pamela Davenport . In New York she taught at the Lucy Moses School , the Brooklyn Conservatory , the Brooklyn College Preparatory Center and the School for Strings .

As a soloist she has appeared with the Peninsula Music Festival Orchestra , the Washington Chamber Symphony , the Juilliard Orchestra , the Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra and the Oak Park Symphony Orchestra and won the Grand Prize at the Music Teachers National Association Competition and First Prize at the Society of American Musicians Competition and took top places in the Washington International Competition , the Stulberg International Strings Competition and the WAMSO Young Artists Competition .

From 2009-10 she was a member of the Saint Louis Symphony and principal cellist of the Verbier Festival Orchestra . Since 2011 she has been deputy first cellist of the Orchester symphonique de Montréal and gives master classes in Montreal as well as courses at the Meadowmount School of Music , a summer music school founded by Ivan Galamian in upstate New York.

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• Orchester symphonique de Montréal: Anna Burden
• Suzuki Association of the Americas: Anna Burden
• The Peninsula Music Festival: Anna Burden