New York City based cellist Anne Blake is a passionate performer known for her adaptability and unique sound. Anne has performed with orchestras around New York City including the New Conductors Orchestra, NYC Master Chorale, and the Chelsea Symphony. She regularly plays for weddings and events around the city, and her work spans classical performance as well as contemporary music. Her international performance experience includes solo and orchestral performances at renowned venues such as Smetana Hall in Prague, the University of Salzburg’s Aula Hall, and the Royal Palace of Caserta in Italy, where she performed for a UNICEF benefit concert. Recent recordings include work with Little Moon, Gavin McMahan, and Johanna Jones. Anne was also recently chosen as the cello soloist for the Orchestra at Temple Hill's production of the oratorio “Lamb of God”, which featured five performances across the Bay Area.

In addition to her performing career, Anne is deeply committed to music education. She is Suzuki certified and has over ten years of teaching experience, specializing in teaching small children as young as three. Anne served as the cello teaching artist at WHIN Music Community Charter School in Washington Heights, where she helped provide high quality music education to children who might not otherwise have had access to it. Anne also founded a cello program at the Myriad School of Music in San Francisco. She successfully brought in students and created a comprehensive cello curriculum for the school. Additionally, Anne keeps a studio of private cello students and is passionate about using music as a means of connection and community.

Anne holds a Master’s degree from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and an undergraduate degree from Brigham Young University. During her time at the conservatory, she was an integral part of the orchestra and was an avid chamber musician. Anne was the principal cellist of the Brigham Young University Philharmonic and Chamber Orchestras and had the opportunity to travel across Europe performing with the orchestra in various venues in Austria, Italy and the Czech Republic. While on tour she was the principal cellist and soloist for Ginastera’s Variaciones Concertantes.  This tour also included community outreach opportunities, like meeting with Ukrainian Refugees and performing for and meeting Italian ambassadors. Her studies also took her abroad for a semester in Italy, where she performed and studied with the Conservatory De Milan orchestra. Anne was the cellist of the BYU Honors Quartet, where she was responsible for putting on concerts for the community.

Anne’s primary teachers include Jennifer Culp, Michelle Kesler and Kari Caldwell. She has played in masterclasses for world-class musicians such as Steven Isserless, Michael Tilson Thomas, Richard Aaron and Rosemary Elliot.