Anne Black enjoys an active and varied career in the Boston area. Currently she is violist of Trio Capriccio, with clarinetist Chester Brezniak and pianist Elizabeth Skavish. As principal violist of Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston, she has been featured as soloist in Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante and Hindemith’s Konzertmusik Op.48, as well as in the premiere performance of Ezra Sims’ Concertpiece, which was also recorded on the CRI label. She performs with the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra, and with the Boston Symphony and Boston Pops as an extra violist, and has toured with them throughout the US, Japan, Hong Kong and Korea.

Appearing regularly as a performer of contemporary music, Ms. Black is the violist of Dinosaur Annex Music Ensemble, which has recorded for CRI and Northeastern Records, and has toured to Salzburg and Amsterdam in addition to performing in the New England area. She has performed and recorded with Collage New Music, and has also presented contemporary solo viola and chamber works with Extension Works, Alea III, Phantom Arts Ensemble and the Boston Microtonal Society, as well as for the Harvard University Fromm Foundation concerts.

Also active as a performer on period instruments, she is a member of the Handel and Haydn Society Orchestra. She has performed with Boston Baroque as well as the Smithsonian Chamber Orchestra in Washington, D.C. She was a founding member of the Mannheim Quartet, which can be heard on Titanic Records.

Anne Black studied viola at Boston University with Walter Trampler, and her violin teachers have included Broadus Erle and Syoko Aki at Yale University, and Stanley Plummer at UCLA.

Ms. Black is also an accomplished photographer and painter, and was presented by Dinosaur Annex Music Ensemble in April 2002 in a concurrent exhibit/solo recital, featuring a large display of her photographs and paintings, and a program which included two world premieres and a performance of Paul Hindemith’s 1937 Sonata for solo viola.