Anna Grayson

Anna is Choir Administrator and a soprano in the Choir, responsible for organising engagements outside regular Chapel services and helping Chapel events run smoothly. She graduated with a BA in Music from St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, in July 2026. She was an alto, choir librarian and later choir administrator for St Catharine’s College Choir. She was awarded the Harold Halsey Hull Prize for ‘outstanding contribution to College instrumental or vocal music’ and the Weaver Prize for choral music. During her degree, Anna studied recorder at the Royal Academy of Music through the CAMRAM scheme and regularly performed on recorder and oboe in College and University concerts and operas. She is also an enthusiastic conductor – recent highlights include conducting the Cambridge University Opera Society’s 2026 production of Die Lustigen Weiber von Windsor and The Pirates of Penzance at the Minack Theatre. She was selected for the first round of the Royal Academy of Music’s Glover-Edwards Conducting Programme. Before university, Anna studied recorder, oboe and piano at the Junior Department of the Royal Northern College of Music, winning its 2022 concerto competition on recorder and receiving the Carole Nash Prize for performance. She was first oboist in the Junior RNCM Symphony Orchestra and the Hallé Youth Orchestra. Outside of music, Anna enjoys learning languages, with a focus on German and Italian. She spent a year studying German literature and Music at Heidelberg University, having been awarded the Baden-Württemberg Scholarship.