Annegret Klaua

Violinist Annegret Klaua is a performer and educator based in Somerville, MA. Her many chamber music performances have brought her to venues ranging from Jordan Hall and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum to churches and homeless shelters, the latter as part of Shelter Music Boston. As an orchestral musician she plays with the Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms Society, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Odyssey Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, the Rhode Island Philharmonic, and Portland Symphony Orchestra. Highlights from her early career include performances with the Kammerakademie Potsdam, Gardner Chamber Orchestra, at the Aspen and Sarasota Music Festivals and the International Academy for Early Music, Innsbruck, being a member of the Spoleto, Italy and Verbier Festival Orchestras, and faculty positions at the Governor's School of North Carolina, Brevard Music Center, Bridgewater State College, and Winchester Community Music School. She holds degrees in performance from Indiana University, Bloomington, and the Hochschule für Musik, Dresden, in musicology from Brandeis University, and in mental health from Queen Mary University of London. Interested in health and human rights, Annegret works at the Institute for Health and Recovery on addiction and public health. She previously managed programs for the mental health care of refugees and for a decade was a volunteer counselor and peer supervisor with the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center's Medical Advocacy program.