Anna Cashell

Anna Cashell was born in Dublin and began her violin studies in Ireland before accepting a place in the Yehudi Menuhin School at the age of 12. She is currently studying for a Masters Degree in Performance at the Royal College of Music, from where she graduated in July 2004 with a Bachelor of Music Degree (First Class) and the Tagore Gold Medal. Her studies are currently supported by a Sydney Perry award, a Musicians Benevolent Fund Award, and the Irish Arts Council. In July 2004 she was honoured to receive the Serena Nevill award from the Concordia Foundation.

Anna has given solo concerts all over Ireland and in England at several prestigious concert halls as well as venues in Belgium, Germany, Spain, France and Israel. Anna enjoys playing chamber music currently performing with her brother and sister as the Cashell trio, with whom she has performed in many venues and festivals in Ireland and at St. James’s Piccadilly as part of the Concordia concert series. Anna is also a member of the Panoply sextet and during the past year has performed in concerts in China and England as part of the sextet. Anna recently won the Raymond Fox bursary, awarded by the Making Music Society.