Anna Rasmussen has been a member of the Suzuki faculty at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music since 2016. She has played Baroque violin with Sonata a Quatro, Musica Maxima, Just Bach, New Milwaukee Consort, and other Baroque ensembles in Milwaukee. She is principal second in the Menomonee Falls Symphony Orchestra and has played in orchestras in Wisconsin, Connecticut, North Carolina, and Texas, including the Sheboygan Symphony Orchestra, Norwalk Symphony Orchestra, Western Piedmont Symphony, Raleigh Symphony Orchestra, Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra, and Waco Symphony Orchestra.
Ms. Rasmussen loves the collaboration of chamber music. She was the first violinist in the Spiritoso Quartet, has played in several chamber ensembles with other faculty members of the Neighborhood Music School in New Haven, CT, and regularly performs with her husband, Charlie. She has recorded tracks for Paul Bogaev, and, as a member of the Spiritoso Quartet, she premiered a string quartet by Elise Grant in 2015. Ms. Rasmussen received her Master’s in Violin Performance at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Music Education from Baylor University.