Anne Tupling has a busy performing schedule in the Midlands and Shropshire.  She manages Sounds Interesting, providing lively classical music of the highest standard for corporate events and weddings and fixes orchestras for Shropshire concerts.

Anne has studied violin and chamber music with some of the UK's premier string quartets. At university she learnt with Hugh Maguire and for many years was a pupil of Howard Davies, leader of the Alberni Quartet. She has also studied chamber music with Michael Bochmann, Roger Coull, the Terroni Piano Trio  and Bingham String Quartet. Anne's first music degree was BA in Music and Psychology at Nottingham , followed by MA in Music and Arts Education at London Institute.

Anne has extensive experience as an orchestral leader. For fifteen years she was leader of the Leicester Symphony Orchestra, playing many great orchestral showpieces from Stravinsky’s Petruska to Bartok’s Concerto for Orchestra and Resphigi’s Pines of Rome in De Montfort Hall. She also led Leicester University Choral Society, Proteus Chamber Orchestra, Leicester Chamber Orchestra, and Leicester Festival Orchestra in many of the great orchestral tone poems. Anne currently freelances with Nottingham Bach Society, Aberystwyth Philomusica and The National Festival Orchestra, playing in Symphony Hall, Birmingham and Nottingham Concert Hall. Nearer home, she enjoys leading Shrewsbury, Ludlow and Montgomery County Music Festival Choral Society Orchestras, Shrewsbury Cantata Orchestra in St. Chad’s church and playing regularly at Shrewsbury's Gateway Arts Centre.

When Anne and her husband moved to Shropshire, she founded the Counterpoint ensemble, a local group giving chamber concerts and playing for charity events. Recent performances have included ‘On Wenlock Edge’ with tenor Adrian Thompson, Beethoven's Septet, Spohr’s Nonet, Hummel and Brahms' clarinet quintets, Flute quartets by Mozart, Lennox Berkeley Sextet and oboe quartets by Alan Rawsthorne and Lennox Berkeley.

In recent years Anne has given regular concerts in Shropshire, Worcs and The Midlands with Counterpoint Piano Trio. Their repertoire is large and includes trios by Beethoven, Turina, Shostakovitch, Mozart, Saint-Saens and Haydn. Anne has flourishing Duos with Hilary Summers (cello), and Richard Walker (piano).  She and Richard recently gave a violin and organ recital in Wales.

  Anne's France-based musical activities include Duo “Reflections” with Stella Searson (piano/harpsichord), performing in Normandy. In May Anne leads the Picardie Music Festival orchestra as well as performing with Counterpoint in Dompierre and Ponches Estruval. 

Anne is fortunate to own a Pietro Messori violin made in Modena, Italy in 1910.