Luna

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"She is much more than a talented organist, a choir director, and a social media sensation... She is a star on a mission" - The Sunday Times "She has rightly become 'the world's most in-demand organist' - New York Times "Imaginative, open-minded, and a brilliant musician, organist and conductor Anna Lapwood is the perfect ambassador for classical music." - Gramophone Anna Lapwood is an associate artist at the Royal Albert Hall (London) and serves as the director of the music department at Pembroke College (Cambridge). She was awarded the title of associate member of the Royal Academy of Music and the prestigious Gamechanger Award from the Royal Philharmonic Society in 2023. Anna regularly performs concertos with leading symphony orchestras and gives recitals in concert halls and churches across Europe and the United States; she will make her debut at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles in 2024. Anna has also performed with Alison Balsom, Bonobo, and Benedict Cumberbatch. As a presenter, she made her television debut hosting the BBC Young Musician show (she also served as a jury chair in 2022), hosted a televised ball, and regularly contributes to BBC Radio 3 and 4 programs. Anna also reaches a wide audience online with over a million followers on social media. She was the first woman in the 560-year history of Magdalen College, Oxford, to receive the organ scholarship and became an ambassador for the Cathedral Music Trust in 2022. Anna leads the annual Cambridge Organ Experience for Girls and, in 2022, she designed and edited "Gregoriana" for Stainer & Bell, an anthology of 12 new organ pieces written by female composers, which won the Presto Music Publication of the Year award. After four successful albums with Signum Classics, Anna signed with Sony Classical in 2023, releasing the EP "Midnight Sessions at the Royal Albert Hall" in April and a new album in the fall. Anna describes her album: "One of the highlights of my year is the time I spend teaching music in Zambia. I love the people, the music, and the laughter, but I especially always look forward to the first time I see the Zambian night sky again. Anyone who has spent time in Africa can tell you how extraordinary the sky is, but it's hard to express. You look up and it is filled with stars - more stars than you would ever believe possible - bright stars, dim stars; some twinkle, others are static; some are true incandescent orbs and others are points smaller than pinpricks. With this album, I imagine we are standing there, contemplating the sky, overwhelmed by the vastness of what we can see. I imagine that by looking at the sky, our minds can almost take us there, traveling through the night sky and exploring the individual stars with their unique personalities and characteristics."