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This is the 75th year of Dartington Music and Summer Festival, a celebration of music from early music to jazz with courses for all ages and abilities, set in the heart of a medieval estate in beautiful Devon (UK). Following a week teaching on the Rodolfus Eton Choral...

Anna recently spoke to Annabel Samson from Tatler ahead of her late-night BBC Prom. Read the full interview on Tatler.com.   "‘I’m a massive adrenaline junkie,’ says Anna Lapwood, the 28-year-old ‘TikTok organist’ from the balcony of the Royal Albert Hall which has...

Anna conducts Evensong with singers from the Rodolfus Foundation Choral Course at the Chapel of Eton College. Featuring music from Lucy Walker, Kerensa Briggs, Gerald Finzi and Herbert Howells, the service will broadcast at 4pm on Wednesday 9th August.   For more...

"An entrancing performance from a one-woman orchestra." The Evening Standard "A stunningly beautiful concert from the Tik Tok organist." iNews "with some great lighting design — from roving spotlights to glittering disco balls to audience phone torches synced with...

Last Friday, Anna joined Clive Myrie and Sandi Toksvig for the BBC Two broadcast of the First Night of the Proms. The season kicked off with Sibelius’s ever-popular Finlandia, Grieg’s dramatic Piano Concerto performed by classical superstar Paul Lewis, and Britten’s...

Anna is looking forward to spending a week performing as part of the Ryedale Festival. Events include an organ recital at Ampleforth Abbey, a "Come and Sing Vivaldi Gloria", three concerts with the Pembroke Chapel Choir and an opportunity to "Discover the Organ" at St...

Anna recently filmed with German national broadcaster ZDF for a feature on "heute in Europe" and "Mittagsmagazin". Featuring new footage from Pembroke College Cambridge and the Royal Albert Hall, the programme can be watched now on the ZDF website.

"One of the highlights of my year is the time I spend teaching music in Zambia. I love it for the people, the music & the laughter, but I also always look forward to the first time I see the Zambian night sky again. You look up and it’s just completely full of...

Anna will conduct two services with the BBC Singers at St Giles' Cripplegate, London for BBC Radio 3's Choral Evensong. She'll be joined by The Pembroke College Girls' Choir for the Remembrance Choral Evensong. Repertoire will include works by Cecilia McDowall, Hubert...

Anna has just launched a new #PlayLikeAGirl merch range with the Royal Albert Hall including t-shirts, pencils and erasers. More products will be added soon. Shop on the Royal Albert Hall website or in the Hall's Box Office Gift Shop.

Anna joined YolanDa Brown (Saxophonist and host of the LPO Offstage Podcast), piccolo player Stewart McIlwham and violinist Martin Höhmann to take a close look at Camille Saint-Saëns’ Organ Symphony. They discuss the challenges of communicating with the conductor from...

Anna appeared on CBS Saturday Morning News this weekend to talk about what she gets up to during her late-night rehearsals at the Royal Albert Hall, her rise in following on social media and some of her most viral moments.

Alexandra Coghlan from The Daily Telegraph recently joined Anna during one of her late night practice sessions at the Royal Albert Hall, to talk about how she is using TikTok to bring new audiences to organ concerts, her upcoming late night BBC Prom in July and her...

This week Anna joined Canadian organist, Isabel Demers, at the Royal Albert Hall for an afternoon of rehearsal for the Organ Celebration concert on June 4th. Other performers in the stellar line-up for the Organ Celebration are David Briggs, Thomas Trotter and Wayne...

Last night, Anna joined the London Youth Choirs with a performance of Eric Whitacre's' 'Fly to Paradise' in celebration of their 10-year anniversary showcase. The concert featured all 10 London Youth Choirs and 1,000 guest singers from schools across London, raising...

Anna is thrilled to be running the Cambridge Organ Experience for Girls again this year. The event caters for all levels of experience, from those who have never played the organ to those who have been learning for several years and are considering organ scholarships....

As part of Eric Whitacre's role as Artist in Residence at Pembroke College, Cambridge, Eric and Anna will be co-hosting a series of events on Saturday 11th and Sunday 12th June 2023. Choral Workshop:nJoin Eric Whitacre for a choral workshop hosted by Pembroke College....

Anna's first EP on SONY - Midnight Sessions at the Royal Albert Hall - is out today. Listen Now Tune in to YouTube at 8:30pm BST to watch performances of all tracks filmed at the Royal Albert Hall with live commentary from Anna.

On July 25th, Anna will perform her first recital at the BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall. The late-night programme 'Moon and Stars' will include Anna's arrangement of Hans Zimmer's Interstellar Suite for organ, the world premiere of a new organ work by Olivia...

Last night, Anna made her conducting debut at New York's iconic Lincoln Center, where she conducted Eric Whitacre's Leonardo Dreams of his Flying Machine with The Pembroke College Chapel Choir. The Choir also joined the singers of DCINY (Distinguished Concerts...