Anna Lapwood

Born in High Wycombe (Buckinghamshire) on July 28, 1995, Anna Lapwood is a British organist and choral conductor. She grew up in a religious family with an Anglican clergyman father, and studied piano, violin and viola at the Junior Royal Academy of Music, before taking up the harp with the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain. After studying at Oxford High School, where she began playing the organ, she became the first woman to be appointed assistant organist at the school. In 2016, Anna Lapwood was appointed Head of Music at Pembroke College, Cambridge, aged just 21. In this role, she is responsible for directing the choir and founds Pembroke College's Girls Choir for young students. In 2025, the organist and director left her post to devote herself to her musical career, which had grown in importance since the release of her four albums for Signum Classics, between 2020 and 2022. Signed by Sony Classical, she recorded the successful albums Luna (2023), Midnight Sessions at the Royal Albert Hall (2023), The Waiting Sky (2024) and Firedove (2025), featuring popular hits and classical pieces played on the organ. Anna Lapwood was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 2024, and went on to become a presenter on BBC Radio 3 and BBC Proms on television.

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