Anna Lapwood
“You never know how long you’ve got to make a difference, so if it makes you happy, cram your life as full as you can!”
When the first lockdown was imminent, many people panic-bought pasta, tinned tomatoes and Andrex. Not Anna Lapwood. She ordered a large two-manual electronic organ to be delivered to her top-floor Royston flat. No Netflix for her – she was determined to use the time to practise and to conduct online rehearsals with her two choirs at Pembroke College, Cambridge.
Her diligence during lockdown has paid off. She is ready for her BBC Proms debut on 7 September in Saint-Saëns’s Symphony No. 3 (the ) with the Hallé Orchestra and Mark Elder; and her first solo organ disc, recorded during lockdown on the Ely Cathedral organ, will be released shortly afterwards on Signum. Over Zoom, she shows me her organ dominating one wall of her sunny flat, where she
