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Described by The Guardian as a ‘fast-rising British talent’ and featured as a ‘Rising Star’ in BBC Music Magazine, Anna Huntley was a recipient of the Wigmore Hall/Independent Opera Vocal Fellowship in 2011, selected by the Young Classical Artists Trust (YCAT) in 2012, and was a prize winner at the ‘Das Lied' Competition in Berlin and the London Handel Singing Competition. She was subsequently elected an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music in recognition of her distinguished contribution to the music profession to date.

An outstanding recitalist, Anna appears regularly at major concert halls and festivals throughout the UK and Europe including Wigmore Hall, Opéra de Lille, Musikverein Vienna, Laeiszhalle Hamburg, and Klavier-Festival Ruhr, Leeds Lieder and the Oxford Lieder Festivals and the Israeli Schubertiade with pianists Graham Johnson, Julius Drake, Simon Lepper, Joseph Middleton and James Baillieu.  Anna is also a passionate chamber musician working closely with chamber groups including Ensemble Resonanz in Hamburg and the Hebrides Ensemble and the Berkley Ensemble in the UK, as well as performing with trombonist, Peter Moore and pianist, Michael McHale in The Nexora Trio. She is also a regular performer at the North Yorkshire Moors Chamber Music Festival, most recently recording a CD of Ravel vocal chamber works there for Ayriel Music.

Other highlights of recent seasons have included the European premiere of Walter Arlen’s The Song of Songs with the Wiener Symphoniker which was featured on Netflix and in Austrian cinemas; Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with Alexander Vedernikov and the BBC Symphony Orchestra; Haydn’s Harmoniemesse with Sir András Schiff; Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde with the City of London Sinfonia; Handel’s Aci, Galatea e Polifemo for the London Handel Festival and Bach Cantatas with Georg Nigl and Luca Pianca at Wiener Konzerthaus, as well as a variety of opera roles for Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Israel Opera, English National Opera, Welsh National Opera and the Cambridge Handel Opera Group.