Meet Anna Diemer

Anna Diemer (they/them) is an Asheville, NC-based voice teacher, soprano, and arts entrepreneur. They have been teaching voice at the high school, collegiate, and adult levels for the past ten years, and they strive to help their students reach their personal singing goals through an individualized, physiological approach. Their private studio consists of young professionals, singer-songwriters, high school students, and members of choirs like the Houston Symphony Chorus, Asheville Symphony Chorus, and Houston Masterworks. Additionally, they work with middle, high school, and community choirs on vocal technique and diction coaching.

With a background in opera, musical theater, and jazz, Anna enjoys performing in all genres, with an interest in reviving the medium of art song. Anna specializes in new music and has commissioned and premiered works by Houston-area composers Joshua Zinn and Mark Buller and Asheville-area composer Samuel Hunter. They made their Houston Symphony solo debut in 2016, and in the fall of 2017, she collaborated with Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Music Director, on a project involving singers in a performance of Charles Ives' Symphony No. 3, The Camp Meeting. Most recently, they were featured as a soloist in Aaron Copland’s In the Beginning with the Houston Symphony Chamber Singers during their tour of Poland and Germany.

Anna graduated summa cum laude with their Bachelor of Music from Furman University and earned their Master of Music in vocal pedagogy and performance at the University of Houston, where they studied with Melanie Sonnenberg.