The Danish violinist Anne Marie Christensen has performed in a wide variety of settings as soloist, chamber musician, and orchestra member. She specializes in performance practice and ‘baroque’ violin and uses her knowledge of historical performance to bring 17’th and 18’th century music to life as a soloist and chamber musician. She also performson the “modern violin” focusing in particular on the solo violin repertoire of the late 19’th and early 20’th century.

Anne Marie has performed in many concerts both on her home island Denmark Bornholm and in the U.S. and the UK. She is co-founder and member of two ensembles. The duo Due Corde focuses on the repertoire of the Italian high baroque whereas Trio Tambourin specializes in French baroque music (read more on the ‘music’ page). She has also formed a duo partnership with the violinist Sarah Titterington, a fellow student from Oberlin Conservatory. Anne Marie has participated in numerous projects of baroque ensemble music and opera using period instruments and waw a member of EUBO 2008. She has previously held contracts in various leading Danish orchestras. She is leader of Belsize Baroque and Solomon Choir and Orchestra and has been playing with Charivari Agreable and Brook Street Band among others.

Raised on the Danish island of Bornholm she studied violin with local teachers and as a teenager she would travel to Copenhagen for lessons. She has a degree from The Royal Danish Conservatory of Music where she studied with prof. Sergei Azizian as well as a Masters of Music degree in Historical Performance from Oberlin Conservatory, Ohio where she studied baroque violin with prof. Marilyn McDonald,  and took private lesson with prof. Milan Vitek. She now lives and studies in London where she is setting out on her professional career as a performer, scholar and teacher performing with various baroque ensembles and appearing in concerts as a soloist and chamber musician while still developing her skills taking lessons with leading baroque violinists. She is currently enrolled as a DMus student at Royal College of Music London.

Anne Marie has received many scholarships from Danish, English and American sources including grants from: Augustinus Fonden, Dagny Gad Andresens Fond, Aage and Dagny Gad Andresens Fund, the Levenhulme Trust, the Manderbaach Lungershausen Foundation and an Oberlin International Grant. She was a Beatrice Taylor Scholar 2007-2008.