Anna Markland

{{Infobox musical artist

| name = Anna Markland

| image = File:Anna Markland.png

| birth_name = Anna Marie Markland

| alias = Anna Markland-Crookes, Anna Crookes

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1964|5|23|df=y}}

| birth_place = Wallasey, Merseyside, England, UK

| death_date =

| origin =

| genre = Classical

| occupation = {{hlist|Pianist|soprano}}

| years_active = 1982–present

| label = Decca, Signum, Naxos, Chandos

| associated_acts = I Fagiolini

}}

Anna Markland (born 23 May 1964) (also known as Anna Markland-Crookes and Anna Crookes){{Cite web|title=Anna Markland-Crookes (Piano, Soprano) - Short Biography|url=https://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Crookes-Anna.htm#:~:text=The%20English%20pianist%20and%20soprano,Musician%20of%20the%20Year%20Competition.|access-date=2021-01-30|website=www.bach-cantatas.com}}) is an English soprano and pianist who won the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition in 1982,{{Cite web|title=BBC - BBC Young Musician - Past winners|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/youngmusician/sites/content/pages/past_winners.shtml|access-date=2021-01-24|website=www.bbc.co.uk}} playing Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto. She has featured in a long-term study of the lives of gifted children.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=BBC Radio 4: Gifted Lives|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00txmjv|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101001141345/http://www.bbc.co.uk:80/programmes/b00txmjv |archive-date=2010-10-01 |access-date=|website=}}{{Cite news|last=Dowling|first=Sian Griffiths and Kevin|title=The maestro and the misfit|newspaper=The Times |language=en|url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/the-maestro-and-the-misfit-wbxcqh5gjxr|access-date=2021-01-24|issn=0140-0460}}{{Cite web|title=Gifted children no more likely to succeed|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/8028543/Gifted-children-no-more-likely-to-succeed.html|access-date=2021-01-24|website=The Telegraph|date=28 September 2010 |language=en-GB}}{{sfn|Freeman|2010}}

Education and early life

Markland grew up in a small house on a council estate in Wirral. Her grandparents on each side had immigrated from Ireland to Liverpool, her father's side being "factory hands" and on her maternal great-grandparents concert musicians. Her grandmother graduated from Trinity College Dublin with a degree in music at just 14 years old.{{sfn|Freeman|2010|pp=114-115}} She studied at Chetham's School of Music (1974–1983) with Heather Slade-Lipkin{{Cite web|title=ANNA MARKLAND|url=https://www.bitesizeproms.co.uk/team/anna-markland|access-date=2021-01-24|website=Bitesize Proms|language=en}} where she was encouraged to play the piano.{{sfn|Freeman|2010|pp=115}} She achieved an ARCM diploma at the age of 17.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=28 September 2010|title=Music For Youth: Anna Markland|url=https://issuu.com/musicforyouth/docs/programme-1982/31|access-date=|website=}} In 1984, she won an instrumental scholarship to Worcester College, Oxford where she studied for a BA Honours degree in Music while continuing her piano performance schedule, also singing with the choir or Worcester College and with Schola Cantorum of Oxford. This was followed by two years' postgraduate piano study with Philip Fowke and vocal study with Kenneth Bowen at the Royal Academy of Music.{{Cite web|title=Anna Markland (piano) on Hyperion Records|url=https://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/a.asp?a=A12283|access-date=2021-01-24|website=Hyperion Records|language=en}}

Career

= Pianist =

In 1982, Markland was the first female and pianist to win the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition. She has performed with several British orchestras including the BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra,{{Citation|title=The Final|date=1982-04-25|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6913558/|type=Music|others=B. B. C. Philharmonic, Humphrey Burton, Anna Markland, Bryden Thomson|access-date=2021-01-24}} Royal Philharmonic Orchestra,{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Anna Markland Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Jan 16 1983 - The Times|url=https://www.thetimes.com/tto/archive/frame/article/1983-01-08/26/1.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210131093344/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/archive/frame/article/1983-01-08/26/1.html |archive-date=2021-01-31 |access-date=|website=The Times}} and the London Philharmonic Orchestra.{{Cite web|title=Index to Short Biographies of Performers - M|url=https://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/IndexBio-M.htm|access-date=2021-01-24|website=www.bach-cantatas.com}}

She has accompanied vocalists including Roderick Williams, James Gilchrist, Paul Agnew, Nicholas Mulroy, Matthew Brook,{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Matthew Brook reference to Anna Markland|url=https://matthewbrook.com/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100516053227/http://matthewbrook.com/ |archive-date=2010-05-16 |access-date=|website=}} and Clare Wilkinson.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Markland Wilkinson Brook Gilchrist|url=https://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_SIGCD516|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170706165148/http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_SIGCD516 |archive-date=2017-07-06 |access-date=|website=}} She has also accompanied the vocal ensemble I Fagiolini.{{Cite web|title=Amuse-Bouche: French Choral Delicacies|url=https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8110961--amuse-bouche|access-date=2021-01-24|website=Presto Classical|language=en}}{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=I Fagiolini / Anna Markland, Wigmore Hall|url=https://wigmore-hall.org.uk/what-s-on/diaries/97-wigmore-hall-diary-december-2015/file|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151220031653/http://wigmore-hall.org.uk:80/what-s-on/diaries/97-wigmore-hall-diary-december-2015/file |archive-date=2015-12-20 |access-date=|website=}}

Markland has run Masterclasses for schools, including at Monkton Combe School near Bath in 1998.Monkton Combe School Archives

= Soprano =

In 1986, while studying at Oxford, Markland became a founding member{{Cite web|title=About|url=https://www.ifagiolini.com/about.html|access-date=2021-01-30|website=www.ifagiolini.com}}{{Cite web|title=Performers' hidden secrets – I Fagiolini|url=http://microsites.ifagiolini.com/about-us/personnel/performers-hidden-secrets/|access-date=2021-01-30|website=microsites.ifagiolini.com}} of the vocal ensemble I Fagiolini. She subsequently toured and recorded extensively with the group, which specialises in Renaissance and contemporary music and has received a number of awards.{{Cite web|date=2012-03-25|title=Diapason - Diapason d'or de l'année 2011 : demandez le palmarès !|url=http://www.diapasonmag.fr/news.php?id=1067|access-date=2021-01-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120325044124/http://www.diapasonmag.fr/news.php?id=1067|archive-date=2012-03-25}}{{Cite web|title=Early Music|url=https://www.gramophone.co.uk/awards/gramophone-classical-music-awards-2011/early-music|access-date=2021-01-30|website=Gramophone|language=en}}{{Cite web|date=2017-03-30|title=RPS Music Awards {{!}} Royal Philharmonic Society|url=http://rpsmusicawards.com/index/ensemble|access-date=2021-01-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170330184254/http://rpsmusicawards.com/index/ensemble|archive-date=2017-03-30}}

She is a founding member of Tenebrae, The Finzi Singers and the Britten Sinfonia Voices, and has performed with The Sixteen, The Monteverdi Choir,{{Cite web|title=BBC - Radio 3 Euroclassic Notturno|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/euroclassicnotturno/playlist070723.shtml|access-date=2021-01-30|website=www.bbc.co.uk}} The Dunedin Consort, Trinity Baroque, Les Arts Florissants,{{Cite web|title=Les Arts Florissants canta i Madrigali di Cremona, mercoledì 16 maggio 2018 – Comunicato stampa {{!}} Unione Musicale|url=https://www.unionemusicale.it/les-arts-florissants-mercoledi-16-maggio-2018-comunicato-stampa/|access-date=2021-01-30|language=it-IT}} La Grande Chapelle, The Scholars’ Baroque Ensemble, Pixels Ensemble{{Cite web|title=Players – Pixels Ensemble|url=http://pixelsensemble.org/?page_id=47|access-date=2021-01-30|language=en-GB}} and the BBC Singers.

Radio and television

Markland appeared throughout the 1982 BBC Young Musician of the Year series and in subsequent years as an interviewed guest in 1984{{Cite news|date=1984-04-05|title=Young Musician of the Year 1984|language=en-GB|pages=54|work=The Radio Times|issue=3152|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/586e4a1de822411687870a92da18f587|access-date=2021-01-24|issn=0033-8060}} and as a judge in 2010 for the keyboards category final.{{Cite web|title=BBC - BBC Young Musician - The 2010 judges|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/youngmusician/sites/2010/pages/judges.shtml|access-date=2021-01-24|website=www.bbc.co.uk}} She was interviewed on BBC World Service's Meridian{{Cite web|title=Meridian - The Joke Collector - BBC Sounds|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p03m0mpl|access-date=2021-01-24|website=www.bbc.co.uk|language=en-GB}} shortly after winning the competition, she was the subject of a BBC documentary feature on past competition winners in 1984,{{Citation|title="BBC Young Musician" Young Musician of the Year 1984 (TV Episode 1984) - IMDb|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1667881/|access-date=2021-01-24}} twice again in 1986,{{Cite news|date=1986-04-10|title=Young Musician of the Year 1986|language=en-GB|pages=41|work=The Radio Times|issue=3255|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/da01f5e1bf054d1ca7bb91742eebe454|access-date=2021-01-24|issn=0033-8060}}{{Cite news|date=1996-03-21|title=The Music Machine: Young Musicians 96|language=en-GB|pages=122|work=The Radio Times|issue=3765|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/6902bea99dd64c7db9beddafda9057a6|access-date=2021-01-24|issn=0033-8060}} and then in 1988.{{Cite news|date=1988-04-14|title=Comparing Notes|language=en-GB|pages=63|work=The Radio Times|issue=3359|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/ef27fe165c504120996ae4a895ff7050|access-date=2021-01-24|issn=0033-8060}}

She presented a series of BBC Radio 3’s Young Artists’ Forum highlights in 1995.{{Cite news|date=1994-10-20|title=Young Artists' Forum|language=en-GB|pages=144|work=The Radio Times|issue=3693|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/123954fd98b64b0ea9831d7e2162d531|access-date=2021-01-24|issn=0033-8060}}

On the subject of gifted children, she was interviewed on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour programme in September 2010{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Radio 4 Woman's Hour: What happens when gifted children grow up? 27.09.10|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00txmjv|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101001141345/http://www.bbc.co.uk:80/programmes/b00txmjv |archive-date=2010-10-01 |access-date=2021-01-24|website=www.bbc.co.uk}}{{Cite web|title=Woman's Hour - 27/09/2010 - BBC Sounds|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b00txmjv|access-date=2021-01-24|website=www.bbc.co.uk|language=en-GB}} and in I was a Child Prodigy (2008).BBC Radio 4 [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00d9l4d I Was a Child Prodigy]{{Cite news|date=2008-09-04|title=1 Was a Child Prodigy|language=en-GB|pages=125|work=The Radio Times|issue=4403|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/ee97bf564bfb410a98e1c06be748da13|access-date=2021-01-24|issn=0033-8060}}

She has performed live on BBC Radio 3's In Tune in April 2016.[https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07868r6 BBC Radio 3 In Tune Hollingworth Markland 27.04.16]{{Cite web|title=In Tune - Robert Hollingworth and Anna Markland perform Poulenc's smoky 'Hotel' live on In Tune - BBC Sounds|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p03slvh1|access-date=2021-01-24|website=www.bbc.co.uk|language=en-GB}}

Audio recordings

class="wikitable" \|+ Audio discography
Year	Title	Other artists	Role	Label
1990 \| The Art of Monteverdi \| I Fagiolini, Robert Hollingworth \| Soprano \| Factory
1991 \| Bliss Choral Works \| Finzi Singers, Paul Spicer, Roderick Williams \| Soprano \| Chandos
1993 \| Howells and Bax Choral Works \| Finzi Singers, Paul Spicer \| Soprano \| Chandos
1993 \|Warlock and Moeran Choral Works \|Finzi Singers, Paul Spicer \|Soprano \|Chandos
1994 \|Insalata \|I Fagiolini, Robert Hollingworth \|Soprano \|Metronome
1994 \|Elgar Part-songs \|Finzi Singers, Paul Spicer \|Soprano \|Chandos
1994 \|Walton Choral Works \|Finzi Singers, Paul Spicer \|Soprano \|Chandos
1995 \|Tippett Choral Works \|Finzi Singers, Paul Spicer \|Soprano \|Chandos
1995 \|Purcell The Indian Queen \|Scholars Baroque Ensemble, David Van Asch \|Soprano \|Naxos
1995 \|Handel The Messiah Highlights \|Scholars Baroque Ensemble, David Van Asch \|Soprano \|Naxos
1995 \|Bach Magnificat, Cantata ‘Ich habe genug’ \|Schola Cantorum / Nicholas Ward \|Soprano \|Naxos
1995 \|The Early Byrd \|I Fagiolini, Robert Hollingworth \|Soprano \|Chandos
1996 \|Schütz Christmas Story \|Oxford Camerata, Jeremy Summerly \|Soprano \|Naxos
1996 \|Bach Magnificat, Christmas Oratorio \|Choir of New College, Oxford, Edward Higginbottom \|Soprano \|BBC Music
1996 \|Bach Motets \|Scholars Baroque Ensemble, David Van Asch \|Soprano \|Naxos
1997 \|Purcell Dido and Aeneas \|Scholars Baroque Ensemble, David Van Asch \|Soprano \|Naxos
1997 \|Handel Dixit Dominus, Salve Regina, Nisi Dominus \|Scholars Baroque Ensemble, David Van Asch \|Soprano \|Naxos
1997 \|Kenneth Leighton Choral music \|Finzi Singers, Paul Spicer \|Soprano \|Chandos
1997 \|The Caged Byrd \|I Fagiolini, Robert Hollingworth \|Soprano \|Chandos
1997 \|Vivaldi Gloria, Bach Magnificat \|Schola Cantorum, Nicholas Ward \|Soprano \|Naxos
1998 \|Purcell The Indian Queen \|Scholars Baroque Ensemble, David Van Asch \|Soprano \|Naxos
2001 \|Croce Carnevale Veneziano \|I Fagiolini, Robert Hollingworth \|Soprano \|Chandos
2003 \|Mother and Child \|Tenebrae, Nigel Short \|Soprano \|Signum
2003 \|The Dream of Herod \|Tenebrae, Nigel Short \|Soprano \|Signum
2006 \|Monteverdi Flaming Heart \|I Fagiolini, Robert Hollingworth \|Soprano \|Chandos
2006 \|Howells Choral Works \|Finzi Singers, Paul Spicer \|Soprano \|Chandos
2006 \|Handel Messiah \|Dunedin Consort, John Butt \|Soprano \|Linn
2009 \|Monteverdi Sweet Torment \|I Fagiolini, Robert Hollingworth \|Soprano \|Chandos
2010 \| Johann Mattheson: Christmas Oratorio; Magnificat \| Kölner Akademie, Michael Alexander Willens \| Soprano \| CPO
2011 \|Magnificat: Rogier and Palestrina choral works \|Philip Cave, His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts \|Soprano \|Linn
2012 \|Dover Beach Choral Music, songs by Stephen Wilkinson \|Stephen Wilkinson, Stephen Wilkinson Choir \|Soprano \|Deux-Elles
2016 \| Amuse-Bouche \| I Fagiolini, Robert Hollingworth \| Piano solo and soprano \| Decca
2017 \| The Sunlight on the Garden: The Songs of Stephen Wilkinson \| Stephen Wilkinson, choir \| Piano accompaniment \| Signum
2019 \|Leonardo: Shaping the Invisible \|I Fagiolini, Robert Hollingworth \|Soprano \|Coro
2020 \| Fresh Air Breathe Out \| Various \| Piano solo \| Besant Hall

class="wikitable"

|+ Audio discography

Year

Title

Other artists

Role

Label

1990

| The Art of Monteverdi

| I Fagiolini, Robert Hollingworth

| Soprano

| Factory

1991

| Bliss Choral Works

| Finzi Singers, Paul Spicer, Roderick Williams

| Soprano

| Chandos

1993

| Howells and Bax Choral Works

| Finzi Singers, Paul Spicer

| Soprano

| Chandos

1993

|Warlock and Moeran Choral Works

|Finzi Singers, Paul Spicer

|Soprano

|Chandos

1994

|Insalata

|I Fagiolini, Robert Hollingworth

|Soprano

|Metronome

1994

|Elgar Part-songs

|Finzi Singers, Paul Spicer

|Soprano

|Chandos

1994

|Walton Choral Works

|Finzi Singers, Paul Spicer

|Soprano

|Chandos

1995

|Tippett Choral Works

|Finzi Singers, Paul Spicer

|Soprano

|Chandos

1995

|Purcell The Indian Queen

|Scholars Baroque Ensemble, David Van Asch

|Soprano

|Naxos

1995

|Handel The Messiah Highlights

|Scholars Baroque Ensemble, David Van Asch

|Soprano

|Naxos

1995

|Bach Magnificat, Cantata ‘Ich habe genug’

|Schola Cantorum / Nicholas Ward

|Soprano

|Naxos

1995

|The Early Byrd

|I Fagiolini, Robert Hollingworth

|Soprano

|Chandos

1996

|Schütz Christmas Story

|Oxford Camerata, Jeremy Summerly

|Soprano

|Naxos

1996

|Bach Magnificat, Christmas Oratorio

|Choir of New College, Oxford, Edward Higginbottom

|Soprano

|BBC Music

1996

|Bach Motets

|Scholars Baroque Ensemble, David Van Asch

|Soprano

|Naxos

1997

|Purcell Dido and Aeneas

|Scholars Baroque Ensemble, David Van Asch

|Soprano

|Naxos

1997

|Handel Dixit Dominus, Salve Regina, Nisi Dominus

|Scholars Baroque Ensemble, David Van Asch

|Soprano

|Naxos

1997

|Kenneth Leighton Choral music

|Finzi Singers, Paul Spicer

|Soprano

|Chandos

1997

|The Caged Byrd

|I Fagiolini, Robert Hollingworth

|Soprano

|Chandos

1997

|Vivaldi Gloria, Bach Magnificat

|Schola Cantorum, Nicholas Ward

|Soprano

|Naxos

1998

|Purcell The Indian Queen

|Scholars Baroque Ensemble, David Van Asch

|Soprano

|Naxos

2001

|Croce Carnevale Veneziano

|I Fagiolini, Robert Hollingworth

|Soprano

|Chandos

2003

|Mother and Child

|Tenebrae, Nigel Short

|Soprano

|Signum

2003

|The Dream of Herod

|Tenebrae, Nigel Short

|Soprano

|Signum

2006

|Monteverdi Flaming Heart

|I Fagiolini, Robert Hollingworth

|Soprano

|Chandos

2006

|Howells Choral Works

|Finzi Singers, Paul Spicer

|Soprano

|Chandos

2006

|Handel Messiah

|Dunedin Consort, John Butt

|Soprano

|Linn

2009

|Monteverdi Sweet Torment

|I Fagiolini, Robert Hollingworth

|Soprano

|Chandos

2010

| Johann Mattheson: Christmas Oratorio; Magnificat

| Kölner Akademie, Michael Alexander Willens

| Soprano

| CPO

2011

|Magnificat: Rogier and Palestrina choral works

|Philip Cave, His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts

|Soprano

|Linn

2012

|Dover Beach Choral Music, songs by Stephen Wilkinson

|Stephen Wilkinson, Stephen Wilkinson Choir

|Soprano

|Deux-Elles

2016

| Amuse-Bouche

| I Fagiolini, Robert Hollingworth

| Piano solo and soprano

| Decca

2017

| The Sunlight on the Garden: The Songs of Stephen Wilkinson

| Stephen Wilkinson, choir

| Piano accompaniment

| Signum

2019

|Leonardo: Shaping the Invisible

|I Fagiolini, Robert Hollingworth

|Soprano

|Coro

2020

| Fresh Air Breathe Out

| Various

| Piano solo

| Besant Hall

Filmography

class="wikitable"

!Year

!Title

!Other artists

!Role

!Label

2007

|Simunye

|SDASA Chorale, I Fagiolini

|Soprano

|Polyphonic Films

2007

|The Full Monteverdi

|I Fagiolini, John La Bouchardière

|Soprano / actor

|Polyphonic Films

2013

|How Like an Angel

|I Fagiolini, Circa

|Soprano / actor

|IAR

2016

|Ode à la Gastronomie

|I Fagiolini, John La Bouchardière

|Actor

|Polyphonic Films

2016

|Amuse-Bouche

|I Fagiolini

|Piano / soprano

|Decca

2020

|The Stag Hunt

|I Fagiolini, John La Bouchardière

|Soprano / actor

|Polyphonic Films

References

Bibliography

{{Cite book

| last=Freeman

| first=Joan

| url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/527702794

| title=Gifted lives: what happens when gifted children grow up?

| date=2010

| publisher=Routledge

| isbn=978-0-415-47008-7

| location=London; New York

| language=English

| oclc=527702794

}}

External links

[http://www.bbc.co.uk/youngmusician/history/winners.shtml#abrind Winners of the BBC Young Musician of the Year]

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Category:Living people

Category:British classical pianists

Category:British sopranos

Category:British women classical pianists

Category:21st-century British classical pianists

Category:21st-century English women musicians

Category:English people of Irish descent

Category:Musicians from Merseyside

Category:People from Wallasey

Category:People educated at Chetham's School of Music

Category:Alumni of Worcester College, Oxford

Category:Decca Records artists

Category:Associates of the Royal College of Music

Category:21st-century British women pianists