My name is Anna Wedlock and in addition to being creative director here at Bela Strings, I am a fiddler, violinist, teacher, and arranger. After a decade of classical violin training, I began studying traditional fiddle music, and for the last 7 years I've been performing bluegrass and celtic music in addition to pop, jazz and classical.

I attended University of King’s College Halifax and Dalhousie University on full scholarship, where I studied with Philippe Djokic. Throughout my time at Dal, I played first violin with the Nova Scotia Youth Orchestra, the Dal Symphony Orchestra, and in 2012 I was a featured soloist with the Dal Chamber Orchestra, performing Vivaldi’s Concerto for Four Violins. I also studied at the University of Otago, New Zealand, with Tessa Petersen.

After graduating from Dal, I was immediately hired to teach fiddle/ violin at the Maritime Conservatory of Performing Arts and now run a studio there of over 20 students, age 5- 70.

I have made a name for herself as a first-call fiddler for performance, touring and recording projects. She has worked with a wide variety of East Coast artists including Thomas Stajcer, Old Man Luedecke, J.P. Cormier, Gabriel Minnikin, The Big Country Ramblers, Dwight Deon, Tom Terrell, Andrew Sneddon, and composer David Christensen.

Through my work with the quartet, I have become a sought after arranger, producing dozens of commissioned arrangements for events. Over the last 2 years, I have arranged music for Willie Stratton’s album Della Rosa (nominated for ECMA Album of the Year),The Swallowtails (a celtic ep with cellist India Gailey), Cassie Josephine’s album Only Half Blue, and Terra Spencer’s single In the City. In 2017, I was nominated for the Music Nova Scotia Musician of the Year award.

I live and work in the North end of Halifax with my dog and partner!