Anna Paulová is one of the most prominent Czech clarinetists of the young generation. In 2015, she was a laureate of the Prague Spring International Music Competition, where she won the 2nd prize and other special awards – the Bohuslav Martinů Foundation Prize, the Gideon Klein Foundation Prize, etc. She has previously won prizes in many important Czech and international clarinet competitions (Marco Fiorindo in Turin, Giacomo Mensi in Brenno – Italy, Krško – Slovenia, Markneukirchen – Germany, Wroclaw – Poland, Oldenburg – Germany, Possehl-Musikpreis, Yamaha Scholarship, etc.). In 2016 she was the absolute winner of the Bohuslav Martinů Foundation Competition. In 2019 she advanced to the semi-finals of the prestigious ARD International Music Competition in Munich. She is the recipient of the Viktor Kalabis and Zuzana Růžičková Foundation Award for the best student of the HAMU in Prague in 2020.She received the Special Golden Medal Award at the Vienna International Music Competition (2019) and the Manhattan International Music Competition (2022) and performed at the Salon de Virtuosi Festival at the Bohemian National Hall in New York in November 2022.
At the age of fifteen she made her debut with the PKF-Prague Philharmonia and conductor Leoš Svárovský. Later, she appeared as a soloist with other leading Czech and international orchestras, such as the Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice, Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic Zlín, Münchener Kammerorchester, Orquestra Cascais e Oeiras Portugal, Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana, etc. In 2014 she performed as a soloist with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Jiří Bělohlávek.
In addition to her soloist career, she is a chamber musician and collaborates with many outstanding instrumentalists such as Charles Neidich, Ivo Kahánek, Martin Kasík, Václav Hudeček, Tomáš Jamník, Lubomír Brabec and other leading artists.
She focuses on compositions by Czech composers of the 20th and 21st centuries (Bohuslav Martinů, Karel Husa, Viktor Kalabis, Josef Páleníček, Miloslav Ištvan, Jiří Teml, Zdeněk Šesták, etc.) and also collaborates with composers of the younger generation. She is also involved in the interpretation of Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto in the original version for bass clarinet.
She studied at the Prague Conservatory with Prof. Milan Polák and Prof. Ludmila Peterková and at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague with Prof. Jiří Hlaváč and Prof. Vlastimil Mareš. She continued her studies at the Musikhochschule Lübeck, where she attended classes with Prof. Sabine Meyer and Prof. Reiner Wehle. She further extended her studies at the Royal Conservatoire Antwerp with prof. Annelien van Wauwe and at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome under Maestro Alessandro Carbonare. She is currently a doctoral candidate at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague.
She has participated in numerous masterclasses under the guidance of top soloists and teachers (Sharon Kam, Shirley Brill, Charles Neidich, Yehuda Gilad, Martin Fröst, François Benda, Philippe Berrod,Paul Meyer, Karl Leister, Wenzel Fuchs and many others).