Anna Lapwood

Anna Lapwood
Lapwood in 2023
Background information
Birth nameAnna Ruth Ella Lapwood
Born (1995-07-28) 28 July 1995 (age 29)
High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire
OccupationsOrganist
Choir director
Television and radio presenter
InstrumentsOrgan
Websitewww.annalapwood.co.uk

Anna Ruth Ella Lapwood MBE (born 28 July 1995[1][2]) is a British organist, choir director and television and radio presenter. In 2016 she was appointed Director of Music at Pembroke College, Cambridge, one of the youngest people ever to have directed an Oxford or Cambridge university college choir, and in 2018 she established a girls' choir at the College.[2] As an associate artist at the Royal Albert Hall in London since 2022, her recordings have reached a wide audience on social media.[3]

  1. ^ @annalapwood (28 July 2021). "It's here! Celebrating my birthday by releasing the first single from my new album" (Tweet). Retrieved 28 July 2021 – via Twitter.
  2. ^ a b "Trailblazing classical musician Anna Lapwood: 'At 19, I was told to play like a man'". Evening Standard. 19 September 2019. Retrieved 19 September 2019.
  3. ^ The Telegraph, "The latest TikTok sensation? An organist's midnight concerts of Bach and Hans Zimmer", 4 June 2023. Retrieved 25 June 2023.