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Anna da Silva Chen is widely regarded as one of Australia’s leading concert violinists, known for her passion and virtuosity as a concerto soloist, chamber musician, concertmaster and director. She coleads the Alma Moodie Quartet and has been a member of the Australian Chamber Orchestra since 2024.

Deeply motivated as a chamber musician and curator, Anna embraces complex and neglected works across many historical periods. As founding member of the Alma Moodie Quartet, she shares the dedication to the music their namesake championed — the classics as well as rarely played quartets by Schoenberg, Reger, Ligeti and Zemlinsky. She has performed as guest violinist with the Australia Ensemble, Omega Ensemble, Australia Piano Quartet, Ensemble Q, and Selby & Friends, as soloist, guest director, and concertmaster of Ensemble Apex, and as a festival artist in the Canberra International, Tasmanian, Brycefield Estate, and Newcastle Music Festivals. She has been privileged to perform chamber music alongside Richard Tognetti, Kristian Winther, Andrew Haveron, Julian Smiles, Shuann Cai, Daniel de Borah and Lee Dionne