Anna Marsh is a Baroque wind specialist, who is also fluent in Medieval, Renaissance, Classical and Modern instruments. Her interests lie principally in the double‐reed family, though she also performs on the Renaissance and Baroque recorder. Originally from Tacoma, WA, Anna appears regularly with Opera Lafayette (DC), Tempesta di Mare (Philadelphia), Ensemble Caprice (Montreal), Opera Atelier (Toronto), Tafelmusik (Toronto), Washington Bach Consort (DC), and Pacific MusicWorks (Seattle), among others. She has been the featured soloist with the Foundling Orchestra with Marion Verbruggen, Arion Orchestre Baroque, The Buxtehude Consort, The Dryden Ensemble, the Boulder Bach Festival, New York State Baroque, the Indiana University Baroque Orchestra and others. She co‐directs Ensemble Lipzodes and has taught both privately and at festivals and master classes at the Eastman School of Music, Los Angeles Music and Art School, the Amherst Early Music, and Hawaii Performing Arts Festivals and the Albuquerque, San Francisco Early Music Society, Rocky Ridge Music Center and Western Double Reed Workshop. She tours internationally, mostly to Europe and South America, and has also been heard on Performance Today, Harmonia and CBC radio and recorded for Chandos, Analekta, Centaur, Naxos, the Super Bowl, Avie, and Musica Omnia. Marsh studied music and German studies at Mt. Holyoke College, The Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California and holds a Doctor of Music from the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University.
Anna Marsh has taught over 80 private students in her work as a bassoon, piano, and recorder teacher. Her students have ranged in age from 8 to 88 and from professionals to amateurs. She has given masterclasses at festivals in Londrina and Brasilia, Brazil and in Quito, Ecuador. Anna has taught privately at the Eastman School and the Los Angeles Music and Art School. She also has taught and coached ensembles at the Amherst Early Music Festival, Hawaii Performing Arts Festival, San Francisco Early Music Society Baroque Workshop, Cornell University, The Western and Albuquerque Double Reed Workshops and the Rocky Ridge Early Music Festival and Workshop. She has also lectured at the Washington National Gallery of Art and the Weyerhauser Company.