Anna SCHOLZ studied cello at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest with Tamás Koó and at the Oberlin Conservatory (USA) with Andor Toth. In 2008, she received a doctoral degree (DLA, summa cum laude) at the Academy of Music, and between 2000 and 2005 she studied Musicology as well.
As a student, she participated in several prestigious international youth orchestras (Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester, Jeunesses Musicales World Orchestra, UBS Verbier Festival Youth Orchestra) where she had the opportunity to work with conductors such as James Levine, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Zubin Mehta, Yuri Temirkanov. She participated in numerous master classes (Josef Podhoranksy, Gerhard Mantel, Zara Nelsova, Guido Schiefen, Herwig Tachezi).
From 2003 to 2016 she worked as cellist of the Hungarian State Opera and the Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra.
She is particularly interested in Baroque music and historical performance practice: since 2003 she has been a member of the period instrument Orfeo Orchestra led by György Vashegyi. In her DLA dissertation, she discusses the performance problems of Bach's cello suites. On this topic she has already given a number of courses, and an abstract of her thesis has been published in Hungarian and English. She is supervisor of several dissertations at the Doctoral School of the Academy of Music and is a consultant in the New National Excellence Program.
As an active and dedicated chamber musician, she regularly performs on modern and Baroque cello, and is always keen to expand her repertoire with rarities.
Her work has been recognized with several awards and scholarships: first prize at the Leó Weiner International Instrumental Competition (Nyírbátor, 1998), second prize at the Popper Music Competition of the Academy of Music (Budapest, 2002), Annie Fischer Scholarship (2007), Juventus Prize at the Hungarian State Opera (2009), TÁMOP Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music (2012), Hungarian State Eötvös Scholarship (2015), and since 2018 she is a Fellow of the Hungarian Academy of Arts.