Anna Phoebe

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Anna Phoebe is a composer, producer, performer and broadcaster whose work sits at the intersection of classical, electronic, and experimental music. She co-hosts BBC Radio 4’s Friday night show Add To Playlist.

A compelling live performer, Anna has toured the world, both as a solo artist and with multi-platinum selling bands including Roxy Music, Trans-Siberian Orchestra and Jethro Tull. She has performed as a solo violinist on top international stages and festivals including US arenas, Royal Albert Hall, Royal Festival Hall, Glastonbury Festival, the O2 Arena, Fuji Rock Festival and Montreux Jazz Festival, and supported Bob Dylan at the Rock Legends Festival in Poland. Following the success of a sell-out solo UK tour in 2024, Anna will be touring her new solo album Divergence (releasing in October 2025) in 2025 and 2026.

Anna works as composer for the Royal Ballet School and has created music for several projects with the students. She wrote the music for the WWF Climate Disaster advert and has composed the scores for films including Ethel (Miriam Margolyes), Belittled (Kiran Sonia Sawar) and Harriet and The Matches (Cillian Murphy and Bernice Stegers) and more recently Apple TV’s hit new series The Buccaneers. She has recorded violin and viola for film and television composers Martin Phipps, PJ Harvey, Flood and Nina Humphreys on productions including Black Earth Rising, Peaky Blinders, Black Mirror, War & Peace and ITV’s In Plain Sight.

Also an accomplished broadcaster, Anna regularly appears on Radio 6’s Steve Lamaq’s Roundtable, Radio 3’s Earlier… With Jools Holland, and Radio 4’s live magazine programme on the world of arts, literature, film, media and music, Front Row. Having co-hosted BBC Radio 4’s Add to Playlist since May 2024, alongside Jeffrey Boakye, she has swiftly become a fan favourite known for her warmth, curiosity and instinctive ability to map unexpected connections between sounds, ideas, people. Millions tune in weekly, drawn to the unlikely chemistry of Bach and Beyoncé, Stravinsky and Skepta.

Born in Hamburg, West Germany, as a native German speaker Anna learnt English upon moving to Manchester, and began learning to play the violin at age 7. She completed a degree in Social Policy and Government from The London School of Economics before going on to pursue her music full-throttle, starting out as a session musician and in 2003 successfully auditioning to become a member of the Trans-Siberian Orchestra.

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