Before joining the NZSO Anna played with the North German Radio Orchestra and the Århus Symphony Orchestra in Denmark. As a student in Wellington, Anna was concertmaster of the Wellington Youth Orchestra and Principal Second Violin of the NZSO National Youth Orchestra. She has been awarded several prizes and scholarships, including a DAAD scholarship from the German Government and performed concertos by Mendelssohn, Vivaldi, Sibelius, Bach and Mozart.
Alongside her work with the NZSO and in partnership with her husband, violist Christiaan van der Zee, Anna runs Karori Classics, a series of monthly chamber music concerts for the benefit of charities within the local community.
Martin and Kay Pipe