Anna Tropper-Lener

Anna Tropper-Lener is an artist and multi-instrumentalist hailing from Graz, Austria. She was born in 1999 into a family of musicians, making a musical career almost unavoidable. Already at the age of five, she developed a passion for the piano, which marked the starting point of her creative journey. Soon after, she started taking lessons for violin and drums at the age of six, making her musical training more holistic. During her adolescence, encouraged by her supporting violin teacher Lucia Froihofer-Garber at the Johann-Joseph-Fux Konservatorium in Graz, she began to participate at classical competitions with the violin all over Austria, during which time she started to reconsider whether classical music should really constitute the locus of her musical career. When one of her teachers at the time, Igmar Jenner, introduced her to Jazz music, she instantly knew that jazz violin would bring her the fulfilment she had always been looking for.

Despite this realisation, she is currently studying classical violin as well as classical violin music education at the Kunstuniversität Graz and will attain her degree in 2023. In September 2022, she finally plans on making her dream come true by starting to study jazz violin at the Anton‑Bruckner‑University in Linz.

Besides her passion for jazz violin, she also loves acting and, more generally, entertaining people in every way possible. Through her engagements as an artistic director at Schauspielhaus Graz (“Physiker”, “Making a Great Gatsby”) and at the Volkstheater München (“Selbstmörder”), she discovered that there is much more to being an artist than only playing an instrument. Anna displays a broad artistic skillset, which ranges from compiling arrangements for a variety of instruments, grooving on the piano, and singing over recording her own songs in her home studio to expansive social‑media management, experiences in leading and conducting a choir, and managing bands as well as theatre productions as an artistic director.

In short, Anna is a multifaceted entertainer and musician with a focus on the violin who is very grateful that she has been given the opportunity to live her dream.