Ann is deeply passionate about the unique voice of the viola, and the way in which it weaves between texture and narrative, flexing between solo and support, in particular within the string quartet repertoire. Hailing from Sydney where she made her solo Opera House debut at age 18, Ann has had a career spanning solo work, chamber music, and as a principal player in London. She spent ten years as a founding member of the critically acclaimed Cavaleri Quartet, and has over the years established a uniquely sensitive, virtuosic and insightful approach. Between 2019-2023, Ann joined Tamsin Waley-Cohen, Emma Parker and Nathaniel Boyd in the Albion Quartet, an exciting presence in the world of chamber music, both on stage and as resident artists for Signum Records. Their final album of Walton and Shostakovich works was a real highlight for Ann, and they were awarded the prestigious Critics Choice and Editor’s Choice of the Year by Gramophone magazine 2022, alongside several five star reviews.

A prize winner at several international competitions as a soloist and chamber musician, including the Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition, Hamburg String Quartet Competition, Paolo Premio Borciani & Osaka International Chamber Music Competitions, Ann has appeared in many of the great concert halls of Europe and the U.K., featured in many major festivals, appeared on a variety of commercial recordings, and is regularly found in the recording studios of London working on scores for numerous high profile recording artists and composers alike. She loves the unique variety of her musical life in London, and is comfortable within a vast array of musical landscapes, from her times alongside her beloved quartet colleagues, to appearing on stage and in the studio with artists such as Björk, Hanz Zimmer, Gregory Porter, Nick Cave & Warren Ellis, & Ólafur Arnalds.

She plays on a wonderful modern viola by English make David Milward, commissioned by her in 2010.