Anna has also done such diverse things as playing background music in London hotels and restaurants, touring the UK and Channel Islands with the Lewis London Ballet, and repetiteuring for opera groups and choral societies. She is a Senior House Pianist at the AIMS International Summer School, and is Neil Jenkins’ accompanist of choice at his masterclasses around Britain. She is also a regular accompanist at Jackdaws Educational Trust, where she has worked with the tenor Ian Partridge and the mezzo Sarah Walker.

Anna currently teaches piano and accompanies at St Albans High School. From 1999 to 2009 she was on the staff at Tring Park School for the Performing Arts, Hertfordshire. She also accompanies the Aeolian Singers in Hemel Hempstead and the Chiltern Choir in Chorleywood, and is much in demand as an accompanist for singers and instrumentalists. She is District Councillor for the Home Counties branch of the ISM.

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Anna Le Hair started playing the piano as soon as she could reach the keys. After winning many scholarships and prizes at Edinburgh University and subsequently at the Royal College of Music, she won a scholarship from the Austrian Institute to spend a summer studying piano accompaniment at the Mozarteum in Salzburg.

Since then, Anna has enjoyed a busy and varied career as a performer and piano teacher. Engagements have included recitals, both solo and as chamber musician and accompanist, in many London venues and others around Britain and abroad. Within the last five years she has given performances of the following piano concertos

Shostakovich no. 2

Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue

Beethoven no. 3

Grieg

Mozart no. 21

Rachmaninov no. 2

Bach Brandenburg no. 5