Ana has played the violin since she was five. Two years later, when she is seven years old, she achieves her first grand prix in a national violin competition. After completing her training at the National Music School for Talented Children, Ana pursues her first musical “out of the shell” twist by studying Jazz at the Latvian Rock School. Both the Latvian Rock School and the Conservatory of Vilnius (Lithuania) later created a Jazz Violin department specifically to enable Ana to study at their school. Jazz Violin is also a new department for Codarts (the Rotterdam Conservatoire), set up to give passionate young musicians like Ana the opportunity to study jazz music on their own instrument - the violin. Ana eventually graduated with a 9 “summa cum laude” from the Conservatory as a classical solo violinist.