Anna Larson

Anna Larson is an Austin, Texas songwriter and pianist whose music draws on indie, folk, soul and Americana. She describes herself as chasing beauty, and her website carries the line "Beauty is what I'm chasing."

She grew up on gospel and spent years as a classical pianist, and she has followed her own path from those roots toward piano-driven originality. She made her solo album debut in February 2019 with Shifting Sand, a collection of songs rife with soul and Americana. Cocoon, seven original songs with an accompanying short film, followed in January 2021 and was made completely in isolation during 2020.

Her music has appeared on NPR Music's All Songs Considered, and she placed in the 2019 Woody Guthrie Songwriting Competition. Her Insight Timer teacher page also says she has performed at the Woody Guthrie Folk Festival.

That page describes her as an award-winning pianist, singer-songwriter, composer and educator, and a long-time music educator and performer. She believes in the power of beauty and encourages her students to create each day.

Peter Blackstock of the Austin American-Statesman's 360 music blog called her "an Austin artist worth watching...the gentle beauty of her voice...leaves the most lasting impression."