Anna Larsen

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NEW!  Lang Lang Foundation Young Scholar Anna Larsen wins prestigious ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Award for her first original symphony, composed last year!
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Anna Larsen is a native of Boston MA and was born in March of 2000.  She started playing piano by ear when she was three and composing when she was six.  She possesses innate perfect pitch, which is the ability to name any note or any combination of notes.  This helps her to hear music in her head and play it on the piano or write it down on paper, the same way we would write a story.  Anna has always loved performing for audiences and played her first solo recital when she was six.  She now studies piano with renowned Professor Hung-Kuan Chen and Tema Blackstone at the New England Conservatory. 

Anna has won many awards and competitions for her performances.  In 2008, Anna received a prestigious scholarship from the Lang Lang International Music Foundation.  Under Lang Lang's mentorship, she has played in master classes and to sold-out, high profile venues like Carnegie Hall and Segestrom Hall.  Anna loves playing in groups and making friends through music, and it was a thrill to play in these amazing venues. She has also been a musical ambassador performing in music education and outreach programs for young audiences.  She has performed across the US in Los Angeles, Berkeley, Chicago, Boston, New York, Lincoln, Connecticut, and appeared on the Oprah show as one of the world's most talented young children.  When she was ten years old, she became the first person ever at such a young age to record the complete album of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier.  Also at ten years old, she won the Newton Symphony Orchestra Young Soloist Competition and performed Beethoven's Concerto No 1.

Anna has also won a number of awards for her compositions.  She has won second prize in the Music Teachers National Association competition for her Symphonic Etudes.  More recently, her first Symphony for full orchestra, composed at ten years old, won the prestigious Charlotte Bergen ASCAP Foundation Young Composer Award, given once a year by the Foundation as the top prize for Young Composers.  It will have its world premiere with the New Philharmonia Orchestra of Newton in 2012.  Anna now studies composition with Martin Boykan. 

Anna hopes to leave behind many original, enduring, and inspiring master compositions for both musicians and non-musicians to enjoy in generations to come. She enjoys the freedom of composing original music and performing to audiences, and hopes her career will include performing, composing, and conducting. Anna will continue growing as a composer, recording artist, and concert pianist of the Lang Lang foundation. Outside of music, Anna loves swimming, skating, reading, writing and drawing cartoons.
You can follow Anna on her YouTube channel, which has 128 videos and 600,000+ views.