Anna Ryan
Flute | 2023 Julius Isserlis Scholarship
A note from Anna
I am planning to attend the Master’s Programme at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz (HfMT Köln) in Cologne to complete my postgraduate studies with Professor Robert Winn. I am very grateful to the RPS Julius Isserlis Scholarship for support in helping to fund my studies.
Professor Winn is an inspiring teacher who I first met on the Oxford Flute Summer School Masterclass Course. His flute class in Cologne is a rigorous and creative environment, from which many successful flautists have developed. I am very much looking forward to learning further from Professor Winn and excited to study in Germany which will allow me experience living abroad, immersing myself in another language and culture. I hope to benefit from the broad range of opportunities in Europe as I work towards my aim of becoming a professional orchestral flautist.
Biography
Anna Ryan is a London-based flautist and postgraduate student at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, studying with Philippa Davies, Ian Clarke and Christopher Green. She graduated in 2021 with a first-class degree in Music from Murray Edwards College, Cambridge University.
While studying she performed frequently with ensembles including the Cambridge University Orchestra and Opera Society, Guildhall Symphony Orchestra and UBU Ensemble, in various solo and chamber recitals, and as a soloist for the Female Composers’ Festival and the Cambridge University Symphony Orchestra. Anna has also performed as a soloist with the Choir of St. John’s College Cambridge directed by Andrew Nethsingha including a disc recording and services for Epiphany and Advent, broadcast live on BBC Radio 3. A single from the disc recording is available to listen to on Spotify here. She now freelances and regularly plays with the Orion Orchestra. In 2022 Anna won 2nd Prize and the Musician’s Answering Service Prize for best UK competitor in the British Flute Society's Young Artist Competition and a scholarship for the Oxford Flute Summer School Masterclass Course. She was the winner of the Cambridge University Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition in 2019. At the Royal College of Music Junior Department she was also awarded the Freda Dinn and Ida Mabbett Prize as the Runner-Up in the 2017 Peter Morrison Concerto Competition. Anna is generously supported by the Countess of Munster Musical Trust.