Anna Baksheeva, MMus (Masters Degree in Violin Performance) is a Russian born Canadian violinist and violin teacher based in Ottawa, Canada. She has been studying and playing the violin since the age of 5. Classically trained in Russia with music degrees from the United States and Canada, Anna has been teaching and performing in Ottawa since 2010. Anna is both a solo performer and a part of larger musical ensembles including duets, trios and quartets, and regularly performs in chamber series, special events, weddings and for retirement communities. Anna is also available to teach violin in her home studio.
Anna Baksheeva Music Academy is an exclusively violin and fiddle learning place in Ottawa and virtually around the world! We devote our time to teaching students ages 5 to 95 and all levels of playing and guarantee good technique for all levels of playing and solid habits for all styles of music students choose to play. Our goal is to help ALL students to accomplish their personal objectives whether it’s to learn a favourite fiddle tune for fun, make YouTube video or to win a National Violin / Fiddle Competition and prepare for music degree audition /exam.
It was great to work with some of your students! Thank you for all the work that you do and I look forward to the next time.
Deer Anna, Thank you again for being a part of our day. Everyone loved your music, which made the ceremony perfect for us all. Your violin and Vaughan Williams’s piece “Lark Ascending” drew my eyes unconsciously upward, to an imagined bird, hovering in the breeze. A lot of guests commented how beautiful music was and…
Thank you so much, Anna, for everything, and our apologies for not having a chance to speak with you in person, it all went by so fast. Our entrance piece was so beautiful, can’t wait to see the video so we can hear the rest of it, the guests were all raving about your talent!…
Good evening Anna! It was trully wonderful having you play for our ceremony and we received many compliments about the music. The selection and timing of the songs was perfect for us. I was very impressed how quickly you learned the new songs, and how professional and responsive you were. With great pleasure I will…
“Thanks again for your services. It was so beautiful and professionally presented. We will keep you in mind for future occasions.” Diane
Thank you Anna for the beautiful music yesterday. It was absolutely beautiful. So many people enjoyed your music.
Pleasure working with your team again….
Great soulful Violinist & Superb Teacher I’ve been a student of Anna’s for three years now, and I feel absolutely blessed that I’ve found her and she had space to take me on as a student. While being a great violinist, which I had the pleasure to witness in numerous of her performances, what sets…
“Anna and Andrew made our wedding extra special with their beautiful music. They were incredibly helpful in choosing the right music for our type of event, and accommodating when when we had to make slight adjustments to our timeline. The music was gorgeous – from the classical pieces for the ceremony itself, to the recognizable…
“We booked Duo Pleiades to play for our intimate wedding of 20 guests and they were absolutely amazing.They made time prior to the wedding to work out our requested songs list, and were very accommodating in playing our requested music. On the big day, they were prompt and professional, and their music absolutely enhanced our…
“For my birthday my boyfriend surprised me by inviting the talented violinist Anna Baksheeva to play popular songs live for us under the sunset in Rockliffe park! We were able to dance various social dances to Anna’s creative and beautiful playing even on an unconventional dance floor-the parking lot! We continued dancing all through the…
“Lovely duo! They performed for the Algonquin College community. Anna and Andrew are incredibly talented and professional. Highly recommend.”
“We were so excited to have Duo Pleiades perform at our wedding cocktail hour! Anna and Andrew played even more beautifully than what we had envisioned for our special day-&our guests were absolutely blown away! They have very large repertoire of music-both classical and modern music… “
“Excellent musician and kind person! Highly recommended! Professional, unique and original! “ Recommendation on Alignable.com
“Anna is a talented violin player and teacher. She is a true professional.” Recommendation in Alignable.
“Anna is Ottawa’s best kept secret. There are few violinists around the world at her level of play and she is here in the capital a phone call away. She is an amazing talent and her skillsets are miles above the norm. Book now-you will be glad you did! “
“I heard this duo recently at a program music for Valentine’s Day, lovely program. Very informative as well as thoroughly ennoble.”
“They are fantastic performers!” Recommendation on Alignable.com
Recommendation for Duo Pleiades on Alignable.com : “They are top worldly professional playing with heart and love for their craft. They get the crowd roaring with delight…They are flexible when planning any kind of event. A must see! Display of talent…
“Excellent Musicians!” … Recommendation for Anna’s Duo Pleiades on Alignable.com
“Anna is a very talented and devoted violinist and teacher. Talented in a wide variety of musical styles, she can play for any occasion. She teaches all ages.
I have known Anna for 2 years as a confident soloist and performer. During this time Anna has been proactive in self-promotion as a performer and a teacher. It was truly inspiring for the students to hear her play with ease and to clearly outline the positives and negatives of pursuing a career as a…
During her studies with me, Ms. Baksheeva showed a great deal of natural technical ability and an excellent musical instinct. She was a careful listener and absorbed suggestions immediately. Her general music knowledge was comprehensive and this came out in her violin playing. Her sound quality was very expressive and versatile. During our work together…
Anna has been working on a new pedagogical workbook for the violin teaching. She has also been part of the Montessori school system and has been a regular guest in schools of the mainstream school boards. She seems to possess an endless reserve of energy that allows her to practice, organize all these ideas, teach…
I am honored to provide this reference for Duo Pleiades – Anna and Andrew, incredibly professional individuals who consistently provide exemplary customer service. Each time I have contracted their services, they have been pleasant to deal with and my customers have always been more than happy with the service. Anna and Andrew are always polite,…
Anna Baksheeva is a talented and dedicated violinist. She is very enterprising and has many ideas on how to share music with a broader audience. She has been working on getting projects in both schools and retirement residences, with herself, her chamber music groups and her students.
Thanks to Anna and her deep understanding of the instrument and pedagogy, my daughter discovered and developed a dormant gift in music. This gift has flourished into a surprising level of playing and comprehension in music that allowed my daughter to participate in RCM music exams and violin rentals, talent shows at school. We live…
Since the beginning of taking lessons with Anna, my daughter has developed skills, confidence and passion for violin, I have noticed an increase with her ability to focus at school to the point of being as much attentive if not more than the average students. Her motor skills in many areas at school, has also…
My daughter has been a student of Anna Baksheeva since 2015. She has mild form of autism and Anna managed to reach to her level of understanding and her needs. She has developed method of teaching her proper violin technique regardless of her limitation. She saw potential in my daughter and just kept going. …
Anna provides a warm and constructive environment for learning violin. At the core of Anna’s approach is a personal and professional love of music. She seeks to nurture and cultivate a child’s natural curiousity and musicality, all the while providing a solid foundation for mastery of the instrument. I heartedly recommend Anna as a teacher…
Anna created an elegant atmosphere at our event. We enjoyed her live music performance as much as she enjoyed playing music for us!
