Anna Jova is a multi-instrumentalistic artist, performing with nyckelharpa and (baroque) violin with Early Music, Folk and improvisational music projects. She specialises in traditional and early music, sometimes in immersive arrangements with modern elements, creating new soundscapes as well as composing music for her ensembles. She has been conducting many interdisciplinary projects, with dance of various kinds as well as literature.

Since more than a decade she has been regularly performing with Baroque and Folk ensembles around Europe (Austria, Germany, Italy, UK, Latvia, Sweden, Lithuania, Estonia, Hungary, Russia) and in the US, and since 2016 she leads the monthly Historical Tunes Session - a workshop and jam session to recover 17th/18th traditional music.

Besides her undergraduate studies at the music conservatory in violin pedagogy and baroque violin/early music, her musical development was influenced most by extensive visits and stays in US, UK and Scandinavia. There, she played with and learned from various brilliant musicians and styles.

Her projects have lead her to play and teach at various international prestigious festivals including

Boston Celtic Music Festival (US), Barockfest Gotha (GER), Medieval Musin in the Dales (UK), Vivat Curlandia - Early music festival (LV), Sabatants Traditional Dance Festival (EE), New England Folk Festival (US), Schrammelklang-Festival (AT), Mittelalterfest Eggenburg (AT), Erdball (AT), …, to play with the Leeds Baroque Orchestra (Peter Holman) and the Collegium Musicum Riga (Maris Kupcs), and as concertmaster of different baroque orchestra projects, including Leeds Opera Orchestra and the MUK Baroque orchestra. In March 2020 she organised the international "Nyckelharpa Tanzt" festival in Vienna, which was sadly hindered by the pandemic lockdown. 

More information about her current projects may be found in the other sections.

Contact

Verein zur Förderung innovativer historischer und traditioneller Musik 

ZVR_no: 1109681564

Name: Dr Anna Breger

E-Mail: info@annabreger.com

Website: www.annabreger.com