Violinist Anna Presler specializes in performance of contemporary and classical chamber music. A faculty member at the School of Music at Sacramento State since 1995, she teaches undergraduate and graduate students in violin and chamber music. Her students can be found teaching and making music across California and beyond. As a longtime member of San Francisco’s Left Coast Ensemble, she performs each season on the ensemble's subscription series in the San Francisco Bay Area. She also served as the group's artistic director from 2007 to 2023. In recent years Presler has performed as resident artist at the Red Note and Wunsch New Music Festivals, and at Music Decanted, Virginia Tech, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Valley of the Moon Music Festival. She regularly coaches in the summer at the CalCap Workshop in Sacramento. In addition to being a member of the Grammy nominated New Century Chamber Orchestra for two decades, Presler was a fellow at the Banff Art Center, the International Music Seminar at Cornwall, and Tanglewood Music Center; her chamber music coaches there included Eugene Lehner, Gil Kalish, and Julius Levine. She is a graduate of North Carolina School of the Arts, Yale University, and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.