Anya Dambeck

Canadian Anya Dambeck has been deputy principal viola of the Staatskapelle Dresden since the 2010/2011 season.

She began taking violin lessons at the age of five. She received her first awards at the Kiwanis Music Festival in Ottawa (Canada) and won the National Arts Centre Orchestra Bursary Competition in 2004. After her training in Canada, she continued her studies with Wolfram Christ (viola) and Rainer Kußmaul (violin) at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg im Breisgau. During this time, she performed several times in the Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra - both as principal violist and principal 2nd violin.

She was also a trainee violinist with the SWR Symphony Orchestra in Freiburg and Baden-Baden. She has been invited several times to play in the Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa in Japan and as principal violist in the Budapest Festival Orchestra under the direction of Iván Fischer. Anya Dambeck graduated with honours from the Freiburg University of Music as a violist and violinist.

In addition to her orchestral activities, Anya Dambeck devotes herself intensively to chamber music. She has already performed with partners such as Kolja Blacher, Yaela Hertz, Christoph Eschenbach and Myung-Whun Chung. She is also a member of the Ensemble International, which was founded by members of the Staatskapelle Dresden.