1. Anna Markland has featured in a long-term study of the lives of gifted children.
15 Facts About Anna Markland
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Anna Markland's grandmother graduated from Trinity College Dublin with a degree in music at just 14 years old.
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Anna Markland studied at Chetham's School of Music with Heather Slade-Lipkin where she was encouraged to play the piano.
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Anna Markland achieved an ARCM diploma at the age of 17.
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In 1982, Anna Markland was the first female and pianist to win the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition.
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Anna Markland has performed with several British orchestras including the BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
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Anna Markland has accompanied vocalists including Roderick Williams, James Gilchrist, Paul Agnew, Nicholas Mulroy, Matthew Brook, and Clare Wilkinson.
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Anna Markland has run Masterclasses for schools, including at Monkton Combe School near Bath in 1998.
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In 1986, while studying at Oxford, Anna Markland became a founding member of the vocal ensemble I Fagiolini.
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Anna Markland subsequently toured and recorded extensively with the group, which specialises in Renaissance and contemporary music and has received a number of awards.
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Anna Markland is a founding member of Tenebrae, The Finzi Singers and the Britten Sinfonia Voices, and has performed with The Sixteen, The Monteverdi Choir, The Dunedin Consort, Trinity Baroque, Les Arts Florissants, La Grande Chapelle, The Scholars' Baroque Ensemble, Pixels Ensemble and the BBC Singers.
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Anna Markland appeared throughout the 1982 BBC Young Musician of the Year series and in subsequent years as an interviewed guest in 1984 and as a judge in 2010 for the keyboards category final.
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Anna Markland was interviewed on BBC World Service's Meridian shortly after winning the competition, she was the subject of a BBC documentary feature on past competition winners in 1984, twice again in 1986, and then in 1988.
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Anna Markland presented a series of BBC Radio 3's Young Artists' Forum highlights in 1995.
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Anna Markland has performed live on BBC Radio 3's In Tune in April 2016.