Anna Markland

She has performed live on BBC Radio 3's In Tune in April 2016.

On the subject of gifted children, she was interviewed on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour programme in September 2010 and in I was a Child Prodigy (2008).

She stars, as Anna Crookes, in John La Bouchardière's 2007 film The Full Monteverdi.

Markland has run Masterclasses for schools, including at Monkton Combe School near Bath in 1998.

She presented a series of BBC Radio 3’s Young Artists’ Forum highlights in 1995.

In 1986, while studying at Oxford, Markland became a founding member of the vocal ensemble I Fagiolini. She subsequently toured and recorded extensively with the group, which specialises in Renaissance and contemporary music and has received a number of awards.

Two years later, in 1984, she won an instrumental scholarship to Worcester College, Oxford where she studied for a BA Honours degree in Music while continuing her piano performance schedule, also singing with the choir or Worcester College and with Schola Cantorum of Oxford. This was followed by two years' postgraduate piano study with Philip Fowke and vocal study with Kenneth Bowen at the Royal Academy of Music.

In 1982, Markland was the first female and pianist to win the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition. This activated a career as a pianist primarily based in the UK and comprising solo recitals, concerto performances, accompaniment and masterclasses. She has performed with several British orchestras including the BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

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. She 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.

She studied at Chetham's School of Music (1974–1983) with Heather Slade-Lipkin and achieved an ARCM diploma at the age of 17.

Anna Markland (born 23 May 1964) is a British pianist who won the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition in 1982, playing Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto and subsequently pursued a dual performing career as pianist and soprano.