Anna Maria Friman

Anna will present a paper: 'Modern performance of medieval music: female
voices' at the Plainsong and Medieval Music Society Conference 2008 on the 26th of April in Bristol, UK.

Anna is currently working on a PhD at the University of York (UK), where she is researching the modern performance of medieval music by women.

In 2002, she was the Keynote speaker at the Festival of World Sacred Music, Irish World Music Centre, University of Limerick, Ireland, with a paper entitled: Early music singing: fact v. fiction.

In 2004 she gave a research paper at the University of York, and in June 2005 Anna presented a paper at the Voice, Sound and Subjectivity - conference at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland. She also contributed to a Saul Seminar at the British Library with Red Byrd colleagues John Potter and Richard Wistreich.

Anna has contributed to the Granta issue devoted to ECM Records.

Photo: Anna Tchernakova
Photo: Anna Tchernakova