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A N N A B A X T E R A native of Oklahoma, USA, soprano Anna Baxter began her music education as a child studying piano, clarinet and oboe as well as 10 years of ballet instruction. She has studied at the University of Tulsa, Southern Methodist University and Baylor University, where she earned her Master’s Degree of Music in vocal performance. Further studies continued privately with internationally acclaimed artists KS Olivera Miljakovic and KS Wicus Slabbert in Vienna, where she has found her new home.
Baxter was a prize winner at the 2007 International Singing Competition of Passau. Other awards include 1st Prize of the Naftzger Young Artists Competition in Kansas and the Olsen Memorial Scholarship Competition in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Previous productions in the US include appearances with the Forth Worth Opera, Tulsa Opera, and Gilbert & Sullivan Society of Tulsa. Her European debut in 2006 as Violetta in La Traviata was highly acclaimed by audience and critics alike. She has also given concerts and recitals in the USA, Europe and Asia. She has sung with orchestras such as the Zagreb Philharmonic, Philharmonic Orchestra of the Hansestadt Lübeck, the Sherman Symphony, and the Hong Kong Pan Asia Symphony Orchestra.
Since the 2008/09 season Baxter has appeared regularly as a guest soloist at Theater Lübeck and Theater Freiburg in Germany as well as Stadttheater Bern in Switzerland.
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