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A graduate in jazz piano, Anna studied to gain the necessary skills to accompany her voice. Recent performance highlights include being a soloist in Coca Cola Christmas in the Park - to a live audience of well over 100,000 in 2007 and 2009; playing at the Queenstown Winter Fest Jazz Ball along side New Zealand favourites Hollie Smith and Katchafire and headlining two sold out concerts in the popular Lyttelton venues, THE HARBOURLIGHT and LOONS. For Anna, 2010 holds the concert recording of a live EP in June, and continued work of her first studio album. "Anna Whitaker possesses all the necessary ingredients - beautiful voice, mean keyboard skills and fine musicianship - to carve out for herself a substantial niche in that ever popular genre of the jazz pianist/ singer." -Tom Rainey |
Upon graduating high school in 2002, Anna studied musical theatre and classical singing in both Australia and New Zealand, before finding her roots at the esteemed Christchurch Jazz School. 








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