Anna Hughes

I began playing violin at the age of three in the Suzuki String School of Guelph. My mother, Daphne Hughes, a founder of the school, was my first teacher, followed by Tom Wermuth for the rest of my time at the school. I was a member of the Guelph and Kitchener-Waterloo youth orchestras and a member of the senior-level touring string orchestra of the Suzuki String School of Guelph. I also played with the National Youth Orchestra of Canada for two summers. After high school, I completed the Orchestral Training Program at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto and then went on to complete a Bachelor of Music Performance degree at the Cleveland Institute of Music, followed by a year of Suzuki Pedagogy training at that same institution.

As a violinist, I have freelanced with various orchestras and ensembles in Ontario, Manitoba, and southern England, including the Winnipeg Symphony, the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, Hamilton Philharmonic, and Windsor Symphony. For almost a decade, I was a tenured member of the Niagara Symphony and was also the second violinist of Brock University’s Walker String Quartet for three years.

As a dedicated violin teacher, I have enjoyed teaching at Suzuki Institutes and Camps in Newfoundland, Alberta, British Columbia, Quebec, the Yukon, and Ontario. I thoroughly enjoy working with all ages and levels of violin students.

I enjoy combining my teaching and playing with arts administration work. I was the coordinator of the University of Manitoba Suzuki Program and I was the event coordinator for the Suzuki String School of Guelph. I am currently the personnel and guest artist manager for the Niagara Symphony.