Anna Cannon

Anna Grace Cannon is an Invercargill-born teacher, musician and composer. Anna teaches a variety of instruments, composition and theory full time at her studio in Otatara and is passionate about creativity. She began writing music at the age of fourteen. Anna enjoys writing music for her students to play. In 2015 the St Cecilia School of Music accepted five piano pieces into their exam syllabus. (Tweed Street Blues, Storm in A Minor, Bluff Harbour Blues and Moonlit Splendour.) In 2015 Anna received a merit award for her piano piece Aramoana, Pathway to the Sea from Otago University for the Lilburn Trust Prize in Music.

Anna has worked as a private music teacher for twenty years in Auckland and Invercargill. Lifelong learning and inspiring others to fulfill their potential is at the core of Cannon's philosophy. She is registered with the Institute of Registered Music Teachers in New Zealand, the St Cecilia School of Music and ANZCA. Anna is passionate about music education; a number of her music students now work as music teachers in New Zealand.

The highlights of Cannon's life include a trip to Chethams International Piano Summer School in 2013, meeting Christopher Norton in 2015 and writing a dissertation on his work and being in a position to support and mentor budding musicians.