Anita D'Attellis
Anita is a solo pianist, accompanist, chamber musician and teacher, based in Oxfordshire.
She developed a passion for chamber music at a young age, playing in a piano trio while still at school which led to performances at the Royal Albert Hall, the Purcell Room, and St. John’s Smith Square. After a degree in music, she furthered her piano studies at the Royal Academy of Music with Vanessa Latarche. She also studied privately with the renowned Russian pedagogue, Dina Parakhina.
Her career began as an accompanist, performing at the Brighton and Cheltenham International Festivals, and other prestigious venues, such as Snape Maltings, the Royal Festival Hall, and the Symphony Hall in Birmingham. She continues to enjoy accompanying, playing for various choirs and instrumentalists across the UK. Additionally, she performs with the saxophonist Huw Wiggin and the oboist Julia White on cruise ships worldwide.
Anita has a keen interest in twentieth-century and contemporary music; she has commissioned and performed works by Graham Lynch and Libby Croad, and will give two performances of Doreen Carwithen’s Piano Concerto in 2026.
Other concerto performances have included Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, the Grieg Concerto, Shostakovich Piano Concerto no. 2, Mendelssohn’s first piano concerto, Saint-Saëns’ second, the Beethoven Choral Fantasy, Constant Lambert ‘The Rio Grande’, and Mozart Piano Concertos K.491, K.467 and K.488.
Anita is the founder of ‘Winter Recitals, Wallingford' (WRW), a chamber music series in South Oxfordshire. She began this non-profit venture in 2018, out of a desire to curate innovative programmes and collaborate with a variety of ensembles and musicians. Since its inception, WRW has donated £27,000 to charitable causes, and provided a platform for talented young musicians to perform, alongside the professional concerts.
Anita is an experienced teacher; she previously held the position of Head of Music at Trevor-Roberts School in Hampstead, London, and later became Head of Keyboard at Sherborne Girls, Dorset. Since 2008, she has taught piano at Eton College.