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Anna Lapwood

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British organist, choir director and television and radio presenter, born 28 July 1995 at High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. In 2016 she was appointed Director of Music at Pembroke College, Cambridge, one of the youngest people ever to have directed an Oxford or Cambridge university college choir, and in 2018 she established a girls' choir at the College. As an associate artist at the Royal Albert Hall in London since 2022, her recordings have reached a wide audience on social media. She studied piano, violin, viola and composition at the Junior Royal Academy of Music and was the principal harpist for the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain and the Junior Academy Symphony Orchestra. After attending Oxford High School, where she played four instruments to grade 8 standard and began playing the organ, Lapwood gained a first-class degree from Magdalen College, Oxford, and was the first woman in the college's 560-year history to be awarded an organ scholarship. In February 2025, Lapwood announced that she will leave her position at Pembroke College to further pursue her career as a concert musician.