Anyssa Neumann

Raised in California and based in London, pianist Anyssa Neumann has been praised for the
“clarity, charm and equipoise” of her performances, which have taken her across North
America and Europe. Recent projects have included Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with orchestras
in California and Sweden, duo recitals with flautist Håkan Sundin, concerts with the Swedish
wind quintet Fem Blåsare, and experiments with solo recital formatting, resulting in a new
concert experience called Meditations. In 2024, Anyssa served as Alternate Pianist on the West
End run and International Tour of The Lehman Trilogy (National Theatre).

A keen performer of art song, Anyssa enjoys ongoing partnerships with British bass-baritone
Timothy Dickinson (BBC Singers) and American soprano Rena Harms (ENO, LA Opera). Other
collaborative partners have included soprano Emma Tring (BBC Singers), mezzo-soprano
Katherine Nicholson (BBC Singers), violinists Yolanda Bruno (Toronto Symphony) and Amy Tress
(Solem Quartet), and cellist Sara Sant’Ambrogio (Eroica Trio). She has appeared on
NPR’s Performance Today, Sirius Satellite Radio, Swedish Radio, Estonia National Radio, and
David Dubal’s radio program The Piano Matters, which featured her solo debut album. During
the Covid-19 pandemic, she video-recorded Bach’s Goldberg Variations at home; called #IsolationVariations, the playlist of all 32 videos can be found on YouTube.

A graduate of the Manhattan School of Music and University of Oxford, Anyssa continued
performance studies with Fabio Bidini in Berlin, Paul Stewart at Université de Montréal, and
Josu de Solaun at Escuela Superior Musical Arts in Madrid, with additional masterclasses at the
Banff Centre and IMS Prussia Cove. She earned her PhD in musicology from King’s College
London in 2017, focusing on pre-existing music in the films of Ingmar Bergman. In 2018, she
developed this material into a lecture-recital, which she toured in six countries, culminating in a
live broadcast from the Arvo Pärt Centre as part of the 2021 Tallinn Film Festival. In October
2023, she completed a postdoctoral research position at Uppsala University.