Anna Tilbrook

Anna has collaborated with many leading singers and instrumentalists including Lucy Crowe, James Gilchrist, Ian Bostridge, Mary Bevan, Sophie Bevan, Barbara Hannigan, Sir John Tomlinson, Nicholas Daniel, Michael Collins, Natalie Clein, Philip Dukes, Jack Liebeck, Chloe Hanslip, Guy Johnston, Laura van der Heijden, Ben Goldscheider, Jess Gilliam and the Fitzwilliam, Carducci, Sacconi, Elias, Navarra and Barbirolli string quartets. She has also accompanied José Carreras, Angela Gheorghiu and Bryn Terfel in televised concerts.

Anna has performed at Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Carnegie Hall New York, Wigmore Hall, St John’s Smith Square, deSingel Antwerp, Alte Oper Frankfurt, Anima Mundi Pisa and Wrocław Cantans. She has made appearances at the Edinburgh, Aldeburgh, Cheltenham, Oxford Lieder, West Cork and Savannah (Georgia) Chamber Music festivals and has curated a number of series of concerts for the BBC.

Anna has had a duo partnership with James Gilchrist for over 25 years. They have made a series of acclaimed recordings of English song for Linn and Chandos, the Schubert song cycles for Orchid, Schumann’s cycles, the songs and chamber music of Vaughan Williams with Philip Dukes and most recently Solitude, settings of Purcell, Schubert, Barber and a cycle written for James and Anna by Jonathan Dove, Under Alter’d Skies.

Anna has also worked with Lucy Crowe for over 20 years, and in 2021 they released their disc Longing featuring Lieder by Strauss, Berg and Schoenberg on the Linn label.

Anna has appeared on the jury for the Song Prize for Cardiff Singer of the World, as well as teaching at the University of Oxford and the Academy.