A versatile solo and chamber musician, flutist Anna Urrey performs frequently at venues such as Carnegie Hall, David Geffen Hall, Le Poisson Rouge and National Sawdust, and engages in a variety of creative projects. As a core member of the Exponential Ensemble, she is passionate about chamber music and curating concert/educational programs. Anna has performed with the International Contemporary Ensemble, The Knights, New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, American Symphony Orchestra, New Haven Symphony, the Mark Morris Dance Company, NOVUS NY, and spent three summers at the Castleton Festival as Principal Flute under the direction of Maestro Lorin Maazel.
Sought after for high-profile concerts, she has shared the stage with a star-studded array of talent, including Plácido Domingo, The Irish Tenors, Audra McDonald, Patti LaBelle, Brian McKnight, Jennifer Holliday, Jane Birkin and Ólafur Arnalds. Anna also enjoys taking on innovative recording projects, which range from the feature films Radium Girls (2018), Little Women (2020), and Goodnight Mommy (2022), to playing Principal Flute in the Experiential Orchestra’s GRAMMY-winning recording of Dame Ethel Smyth’s work, The Prison.
A dedicated educator, Anna is a New York Philharmonic Teaching Artist, a Wm. S. Haynes Collaborative Ambassador and is on faculty at the Marymount School. She earned her Master of Music and Performance Certificate from the Manhattan School of Music and Bachelor of Music from Rutgers University, where she graduated magna cum laude and was the recipient of the Outstanding Achievement Award in Performance. Principal teachers include Bart Feller, Kaoru Hinata, Robert Langevin and Michael Parloff.
