Guest Leaders
Anna Brown
Anna Brown is a British violinist born in London. She is currently studying for her undergraduate degree in violin performance on a scholarship to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in the class of Krysia Osostowicz.
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Anna has won numerous awards for her playing including the John McAslan violin prize at the Junior Royal Academy of Music, where she held a scholarship, as well as both the Wandsworth and Richmond Young Musician of the Year titles. Anna is a dedicated chamber musician and has also received many accolades for her chamber music playing. Her string quartet at the Guildhall School, Quartet Concrète, are prize winners of the St James’ Chamber prize and during their time together have been selected for many prestigious masterclasses including studies with András Keller and ChamberStudio’s Hans Keller Forum mentorship program for the 2023/24 season. As well as leading her string quartet, Anna enjoys leading larger ensembles. She has led the Symphony Orchestra at the Junior Royal Academy of Music as well as the Symphony and Chamber Orchestras of King’s College School Wimbledon. Anna is also passionate about Historical Performance and has led different sized ensembles performing orchestral and opera repertoire as well as giving performances at St Martin in the Fields, London.
Zoe Hodi
Zoe Hodi is a Scottish violinist, based in London. Having studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama under Levon Chilingirian and Krysia Osostowicz, she went on to study at postgraduate level there on the London Symphony Orchestra associated Orchestral Artistry course.
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Zoe is an active chamber musician, and this summer played at the Kuhmo International Chamber Music festival in Finland. She is also an accomplished improviser, having studied under David Dolan and regularly improvises with Krystof Kohout. Her orchestral playing began at a young age, in the National Youth Orchestras of Scotland, which she went on to lead. She also spent two years in the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain with whom she played at the BBC Proms and Berlioz Festival in France. At the Guildhall she worked with eminent musicians such as Andras Keller, Jonathan Morton and the Australian Chamber Orchestra in projects. She has performed in masterclasses with maestri including Nicola Benedetti, Leland Chen, and Wolfgang Redik.
Outside of music, Zoe enjoys hillwalking and is a keen Munro bagger.