Anna Leese
Teacher of Music and Voice, Arts - Music
Anna is a professional lyric soprano and New Zealand Soprano and international singer and performer.
Anna is a teaching fellow at the University of Waikato as well as a doctoral candidate at the University of Otago, where she is researching co-composition between singers and conductors in Aotearoa, NZ.
Anna has performed at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the Classical Opera Company, Opera Köln, Flanders Opera, Opera Holland Park, Canadian Opera Company, and for New Zealand Opera, as well as representing NZ in Cardiff Singer of the World.
Most recently Anna has sung Strangest of Angels (New Zealand Opera), Mozart’s Requiem with New Zealand and Christchurch Symphony Orchestras, at the Adam Chamber Music Festival, Nelson; Wakatipu Festival, Queenstown; Ravel’s Scheherazade with Orchestra Wellington; Messiah with Queensland Symphony, New Zealand Symphony and Royal Melbourne Philharmonic Society; The Governess (Turn of the Screw) with New Zealand Opera; Auckland Philharmonic Orchestra; Auckland Choral Society, and in A Night at the Opera Gala with Dunedin Symphony Orchestra.
Anna’s recordings include Elgar’s The Apostles, a recital disc with Graham Johnson, and Haydn: ‘Italian Love Songs’.
She holds qualifications as PGDip Teaching (primary), MusB (Hons), PGDip Advanced Opera Studies (Royal College of Music, London), Doctoral Candidate in Musical Arts (Otago University).
