Anne Black, viola

Anne Black enjoys an active and varied career in the Boston area. In addition to her performances in the New England area, including regular appearances with Collage, Ms. Black is the violist of Dinosaur Annex Music Ensemble, which has recorded for CRI and Northeastern Records and has toured to Salzburg and Amsterdam. She has also presented contemporary solo viola and chamber works with Extension Works, Alea III, Phantom Arts Ensemble, and the Boston Microtonal Society, as well as for the Harvard University Fromm Foundation concerts. Ms. Black is violist of Trio Capriccio, with clarinetist Chester Brezniak and pianist Elizabeth Skavish. As principal violist of the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston, she has been featured as soloist in Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante and Hindemith’s Konzertmusik Op.48 for Viola and Chamber Orchestra, as well as in the premiere performance of Ezra Sims’ Concertpiece for Viola and Chamber Orchestra, which was also recorded for CRI. She performs with the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra, and with the Boston Symphony and Boston Pops as an extra violist, and has toured with them throughout the US, Japan, Hong Kong and Korea. Also active as a performer on period instruments, she is a member of the Handel and Haydn Society Orchestra. She has performed with Boston Baroque, as well as the Smithsonian Chamber Orchestra in Washington, D.C. She was a founding member of the Mannheim Quartet, which can be heard on Titanic Records. She studied viola at Boston University with Walter Trampler, and her violin teachers have included Broadus Erle and Syoko Aki at Yale University and Stanley Plummer at UCLA. Ms. Black is an accomplished photographer and painter, as well, and was presented by the Dinosaur Annex Music Ensemble in April 2002 in a combined exhibit/solo recital, featuring a large display of her photographs and paintings, and a program which included two world premieres and a performance of Paul Hindemith’s solo viola Sonata of 1937.