Photography: Jamie Chapman
Anna Beresford is a freelance conductor based in Cardiff. Anna is the Musical Director of Caerphilly Community Chorus and the City of Newport Symphony Orchestra. She is Assistant Music Librarian at Welsh National Opera and sings with the BBC National Chorus of Wales. Anna made her conducting debut with Northern Ballet in their Autumn 2022 tour of The Little Mermaid by Sally Beamish while she was Cover and Assistant Conductor.
Anna gained a MMus with Distinction from the Royal Northern College of Music in Orchestral Conducting with a Choral Conducting specialism. Her teachers were Mark Heron, Clark Rundell, David Hill and Stuart Overington. As part of the course she regularly assisted the conductors at the BBC Philharmonic and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic orchestras, as well as working with the talented orchestras and choirs at Chethams School of Music and with the Psapphaensemble. During her time at the RNCM she conducted in concerts with RNCM orchestras and choirs, BBC Philharmonic, NEW Sinfonia, and Chethams Middle School Symphony Orchestra.
On the first Sorrell Women Conductors Programme, Anna studied with Sian Edwards at the Royal Academy of Music. She has participated in masterclasses with conductorsincluding Alice Farnham, Toby Purser, Jonathon Lo, Barry Wordsworth and Jessica Cottis. Anna is grateful to have taken part in Women Conductors' programmes with the RPS and Royal Opera House.
Anna studied Music at the University of Manchester and won the Proctor Gregg Prize for Conducting. In 2022, she won the National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain's Weston Conductors Competition, becoming Associate Conductor with the ensemble and assistant to Guest Conductor, Martyn Brabbins. Anna is passionate about music education, both as an instrumental teacher and in her work for projects with National Youth Arts Wales and the National Children’s Orchestra of Great Britain.
Anna gained a MMus with Distinction from the Royal Northern College of Music in Orchestral Conducting with a Choral Conducting specialism. Her teachers were Mark Heron, Clark Rundell, David Hill and Stuart Overington. As part of the course she regularly assisted the conductors at the BBC Philharmonic and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic orchestras, as well as working with the talented orchestras and choirs at Chethams School of Music and with the Psapphaensemble. During her time at the RNCM she conducted in concerts with RNCM orchestras and choirs, BBC Philharmonic, NEW Sinfonia, and Chethams Middle School Symphony Orchestra.
On the first Sorrell Women Conductors Programme, Anna studied with Sian Edwards at the Royal Academy of Music. She has participated in masterclasses with conductorsincluding Alice Farnham, Toby Purser, Jonathon Lo, Barry Wordsworth and Jessica Cottis. Anna is grateful to have taken part in Women Conductors' programmes with the RPS and Royal Opera House.
Anna studied Music at the University of Manchester and won the Proctor Gregg Prize for Conducting. In 2022, she won the National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain's Weston Conductors Competition, becoming Associate Conductor with the ensemble and assistant to Guest Conductor, Martyn Brabbins. Anna is passionate about music education, both as an instrumental teacher and in her work for projects with National Youth Arts Wales and the National Children’s Orchestra of Great Britain.