The Latvian violinist Anna Britala started violin lessons at the age of six with Igors Doriņš. In Latvia she won the 3rd prize in the Latvian National String Players Competition in 2005. She took courses for orchestral playing and chamber music for many years at Collegium Musicum Schloss Pommersfelden.
In 2008 Anna moved to Amsterdam to study with Ilya Grubert at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, where she completed her Bachelor’s degree in 2013. During that time she also studied composition for a year and participated with the Fenrych Quartet
including the Netherlands String Quartet Academy and St Lawrence String Quartet Seminar in Stanford, USA.
Anna followed her Master’s degree at the Utrecht Conservatory with Elisabeth Perry, where she also performed as a soloist in a joint project of the conservatory orchestras of Utrecht and Mallorca.
As an orchestral musician, Anna played in the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester on tours in 2012, 2014, 2015 and 2016, Lucerne Festival Academy, and later also Lucerne Festival Alumni.
Anna substitutes for the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, the Flanders Symphony Orchestra and the North Netherlands Orchestra. She performs as a soloist with amateur and semi-professional orchestras, and with various chamber music ensembles such as Duo Ambiguity (concerts via Stichting Muziek in Huis), ShapeShift (contemporary music) and ReSamba (Brazilian music in a new guise).