Anna Meenderink (Naaldwijk, 1996) started playing the violin at the age of five with PIVO at the

Royal Conservatory in The Hague and was admitted to the Young Talent Department with Koosje

van Haeringen at the same conservatory at the age of ten. At the age of fifteen she switched to

viola and studied with Liesbeth Steffens. She has regularly taken lessons and masterclasses

with Wolfram Christ, Nobuko Imai, Isabelle van Keulen and Garth Knox. In 2021 she obtained her

bachelor’s degree with an “excellent” with Iván Martín Mateu at the Conservatorio Superior de

Salamanca. She is currently studying for a master’s degree in classical viola at the Conservatory

of Amsterdam with Marjolein Dispa and Frederik Boits.

Anna is a versatile musician with a great love for chamber music. She has collaborated with

Peter Brunt, Frederique Saeijs, Lucia Swarts and Mikhail Milman, among others. In 2015 she

played Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante with Isobel Warmelink with the Atheneum Chamber

Orchestra conducted by Arjan Tien. Anna also has extensive orchestral experience and has

collaborated with leading conductors such as Herbert Blomstedt, Kurt Masur, Jonathan Nott,

Michael Sanderling and James Gaffigan. In 2017 she was leader of the National Youth Orchestra

and from 2018 to 2020 she was a member of the Gustav Mahler JugendOrchester. In 2019 she

won the academy in the Luzerner Sinfonieorchester and in 2022 she won a temporary contract in

the Orquesta Filarmónica de Malaga. Currently she performs regularly with dutch professional

orchestra’s such as het Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest andhet Radio Philharmonisch

Orkest.

Anna plays a viola by Hargrave (Meyenburg, 1993) and a bow by Stüber (The Hague, 20th

century), made available by het Nationaal Muziekinstrumentenfonds.