Anna Griffis

Equally at home on steel and gut strings and with new and old music, violist/violinist Anna Griffis (she/her) has performed in Mexico, Turkey, Austria, Slovenia, Czechia, Taiwan, and across North America. She is a principal viola with the New Bedford Symphony and the Boston Festival Orchestra, a member of the Albany Symphony, and performs frequently with Emmanuel Music, Blue Heron, Les Bostonades, A Far Cry, the Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, Boston Baroque, Boston Lyric Opera, and Boston Ballet. She co-founded Chicago-based Trio Speranza, prize winners at the Early Music American Baroque Competition, and performs with and is executive director of the new music group Ludovico Ensemble. Anna studied at Lawrence University, The Hartt School of Music, Tanglewood Music Center, and Boston University and now teaches and coaches chamber music at the New School of Music (Cambridge) and Tufts University, and is an affiliate artist in the Emerson/Harris program at MIT. In addition to playing and teaching, she works in marketing and communications for the Tufts Music Department and Emmanuel Music and is a freelance graphic designer. Originally from Annapolis, MD, Anna is the proud product of her public school music program. She now lives in the great neighborhood of Lower Allston with her bassoonist husband and their cat, Church, and gets excited about fonts, road trips, and diners.