Anya Burgess plays, restores, and builds violins. She grew up playing a lot of music, but really found her groove when she started playing traditional tunes on the fiddle in her late teens. Anya studied violin making at Indiana University in Bloomington, IN and also spent many summers in Cape Breton, NS learning from violin maker Otis Tomas. She decided to open her own violin repair and violin building business in the fall of 2002, and has been servicing the needs of South Louisiana string players ever since. She works with both traditional and Classical musicians.

Anya has an eclectic taste in music, from world music to pop music and Classical, but her main interests in playing and learning tunes are in the Cajun and Old-Time repertoires. She has always really loved to travel and play music, but there's nothing she loves better than hanging out at her home and workshop on the Bayou Teche with her husband Richard and son Reuben. In addition to playing with the Magnolia Sisters, she's also a member of the all-female Cajun band, Bonsoir, Catin. You can see her work and some current projects at www.anyaviolins.blogspot.com