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Anna Stéphany is a graduate of King's College London, the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the National Opera Studio.

Amongst her many awards are the Kathleen Ferrier Award 2005 and the GSMD Gold Medal.

Anna’s operatic roles include Proserpina Orfeo for the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Euridice and Speranza Orfeo for Opera North, Dorabella Cosi fan tutte and Juno Semele for British Youth Opera, Smeraldina The Little Green Swallow, Concepçion L’heure espagnole, the title role in Mignon by A Thomas and Marcellina The Marriage of Figaro at the Guildhall. Opera scenes have included Romeo I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Juno Semele, Nancy Albert Herring, Kate Owen Wingrave, Sifare Mitridate and Spring (Rimsky-Korsakov's The Snow Maiden). Anna sang with the Glyndebourne Festival Chorus in 2002 and 2003.

Anna has appeared with numerous choral societies including The Bach Choir, Holst Singers, Highgate Choral Society and The Philharmonia Chorus.

Most recent engagements have included performances of the Mozart Requiem with both Academy of St Martin in the Fields in the Barbican’s Mostly Mozart Festival and Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, the Bruckner Mass with Orquesta Sinfonica de Galicia, a concert with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and a recital in Oxford with Roger Vignoles.

She has appeared in master-classes with Graham Johnson, Emma Kirkby, David Willcocks and Malcolm Martineau and has given recitals as part of the New London Orchestra Recital series and the Oxford Lieder Festival, both with pianist Jonathan Beatty.

Future engagements include concerts with Britten Sinfonia, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and with Sir Colin Davis and the London Symphony Orchestra at both the Barbican and Carnegie Hall. In 2008 she will sing Dorabella for Garsington Opera.

Anna's studies at the National Opera Studio were supported by British American Tobacco and The Countess of Munster Musical Trust.