Riana Anthony

Riana Anthony began playing the cello at the age of nine in Japan under the tutelage of her mother, Lifen Anthony, and cellist Kurata Sumiko. She made her Honolulu Symphony debut at the age of 12 with J. Haydn's Concerto No. 1, and three years later performed A. Dvorak's Cello Concerto No. 3. Dvorak. A graduate of the Robert McDuffie Center for Strings and the Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University, Riana studied with Hans Jorgen Jensen and Julie Albers.

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The Shanghai City Symphony Orchestra presents Riana as soloist in a performance of Dvorak's Cello Concerto "The City, The Romanticism", followed by a recital tour of China in the same season. In 2016, Riana makes her debut at the Kennedy Center and gives recitals in the United States, China and Denmark, closing the year with a performance of D. Kabalevsky's Cello Concerto No. 2. Riana is invited to perform in the Future Master Concert Series at the Shanghai Oriental Arts Center for several seasons, and appears as a soloist at the Peninsula Music Festival with the NAC Orchestra.

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Recently, Riana gave the European premiere of John Williams' brand-new composition "Highwood's Ghost" with the Brussels Philharmonic and conductor Stéphane Denève at the Flagey Festival in Brussels.