Anna Sheppard is a recent graduate of the University of Cincinnati-Conservatory of Music, earning a Master’s Degree in Trumpet Performance. While at Cincinnati, Sheppard held an assistantship playing, coaching, and performing in the CCM Graduate Brass Quintet. She also holds a Bachelor's Degree in Instrumental Music Education and a Certificate in Trumpet Performance from Appalachian State University. She is a freelance trumpet player/ teacher and has performed with the Lexington Philharmonic, CCM Philharmonia, CCM’s Wind Symphony, CCM’s Concert Orchestra, River’s Edge Brass Band, the Appalachian Symphony Orchestra, and the Symphony of the Mountains in Kingsport, TN. She has performed as a soloist on such works as Copland’s Lincoln Portrait, Copland’s Quiet City and Saint-Saën’s Septet for Piano, Trumpet, and Strings. Sheppard's recent orchestral repertoire includes performing as principal player on works such as Marsalis’s Swing Symphony, Prokofiev’s Symphony no. 7, Brahms Symphony no. 4, Falla’s The Three Cornered Hat, and Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen. She is the recipient of the Joe Phelps Trumpet Achievement Scholarship and a member of Phi Kappa Lambda and the International Trumpet Guild.

Sheppard is also involved in other musical fields. Recently, she was a coauthor of a chapter titled Reclaiming Musical Identities Confounded by Physical Injury and Damage with Dr. Katy Strand and Dr. Jennifer Snodgrass in Trauma Resisted and (Re)Engaged: Inquiry into Lost and Found Narratives in Music Education, published under Springer Publishing (2024). Additionally, she has worked as a research assistant under Dr. Jennifer Snodgrass, working on books such as Contemporary Musicianship: Analysis and the Artist and Teaching Music Theory: New Voices and Approaches. Sheppard was also a tutor in the Learning, Research, and Technology Music lab as well as serving as a TA in Music History.