Anna Stokes - Flute

Anna Stokes RCM BMus (hons)  is an orchestral, chamber and solo player. She has performed in recitals with the Emanuel Ensemble (which she founded in 2001) at the Purcell Room, Wigmore Hall, Cadogan Hall, Conway Hall, Leeds International Festival, Schubert Society of Britain, Villa D’este–Lake Como and numerous UK Concert Societies. The Emanuel Ensemble have also performed in the presence of HRH Prince Charles and Princess Alexandra. In 2006, they were featured on the sound track of the film “In A Day”.

As a soloist, she has given performances for the Qatar Foundation Concert Series–Doha, Beethovenhaus–Bonn, Cheltenham International Festival, UK concert societies and performed concertos/solo works by J. S. Bach, Chaminade, Mozart, Quantz, Reinecke and Rouse. In 2006-2008, she was selected to participate in the Sir James Galway International Masterclass and in the 2007 masterclass won a gold Nagahara headjoint for "Best Class Performer" by popular vote. Anna recently recorded solo works by the composer Tasoulla Christou and performed on the recording of Ben Woolf’s Cello Concerto “Etz Chayim”.

She freelances in orchestras including the London Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra, Brandenburg Sinfonia, London Concert Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Janácek Philharmonic and Orpheus Sinfonia amongst others.  In September 2009, she performed on Camilla Kersake's debut launch CD for Universal Records. In February 2010, Anna then  performed in a live concert with Camilla Kerslake for H.R.H Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace. Recent awards include the Marc Rich Scholarship for Artistic Achievement 2008, Haynes International Flute Competition 2007 Prize Winner-USA, LPO “Future Firsts” Place 2006-2007 and Solti Foundation Award. Other awards include Foundation for Sport and the Arts, EMI Sound Foundation and RCM Wilfred Brown Duo Prize. Anna has also given workshops in the UK, Hong Kong and Qatar.

Anna began studying the flute with Athanasios Kalimeris. She was then awarded a scholarship to the Purcell School of Music where she studied with Anna Pope for five years before being awarded a Foundation Scholarship to the Royal College of Music. Whilst at the RCM, she studied flute with Susan Milan and Stewart McLlwham and graduated in 2004 with First Class Honours, later studying privately with Celia Chambers and Paul Edmund Davies. She has also received coaching from an array of flautists including Susan Thomas, Kenneth Smith, the late Sebastian Bell and composers Edwin Roxburgh, Nicholas Maw and the late Jindrich Feld. 

Flute Masterclasses / Private Tuition
Sir James Galway
Sebastian Bell
David Butt
Celia Chambers
Paul Edmund-Davies
Phillippa Davies
Robert Dick
Athanasios Kalimeris
Jean Weger Larson
Jaime Martin
Stewart McLlwham
Susan Milan
Andrew Nicholson
Kenneth Smith

Coaching
Jindrich Feld (composer)
Nicholas Maw (Ensemble coaching on his quartet)
Yonty Solomon  (Ensemble Coaching)
Nigel Clayton (Duo coaching)
John Blakely (Duo coaching)
Colin Bradbury (Woodwind Coaching)
Henry Hereford (Duo Coaching)
Chilingirian Quartet (Ensemble coaching)
Lowri Blake (Ensemble Coaching)
Janet Hilton  (Enemble Coaching)
Daphne Boden (Duo coaching)
Ieuan Jones  (Duo Coaching)
Jane Manning  (Duo coaching)
Kathleen Livingstone  (Duo coaching)