Anna Bastow

Viola

Member since 2011

‘I first discovered my love of music aged five when my family moved next door to a violin teacher. I remember spending a lot of time sitting on the doorstep listening to the violin lessons next door until I was allowed to start learning myself.’

Anna Bastow grew up in East Yorkshire where she started learning the violin aged seven. She concurrently studied music at Manchester University and violin and viola at the Royal Northern College of Music. She then continued her viola studies with Predrag Katanic in Linz, Austria. Soon after graduating, she spent five years as Co-Principal Viola of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra before joining the LSO in 2011.