Anna is going into her second year studying Timpani and Percussion with Professor Andy Barclay and Professor Patrick King at the Royal Academy of Music. Anna is from Poltava in Ukraine and started playing at the age of eight and subsequently attended R. Glier Kyiv Municipal Academy of Music from 2018 to 2022. In her final year she was awarded a Red Diploma.

Whilst there, she also performed with a marching Drum Line Drum Art Show which has taken her to Doha in Qatar and also to Riyadh, Monaco and Paris. She was lucky enough to have a one-to-one masterclass with renowned percussionist Colin Currie in Grafenegg, Austria in 2022. Anna has won countless awards in Ukraine for her playing including four at international level.