Anna Vinnitskaya (Piano)
Anna Vinnitskaya was born in 1983 in Novorossiysk, Russia. Her parents are
also pianists. She received her first piano lessons from her mother at the age
of six and played her first public recital when she was nine years old. After
studies with Sergei Ossipenko at the Sergei Rachmaninoff Conservatory in
Rostov-on-Don, Anna Vinnitskaya attracted the attention of Ralf Nattkemper at a
piano competition and was invited by him to the Hamburg University of Music and
Theater (HfMT), where she began her studies with Evgeni Koroliov in October
2002. In October 2009, she was appointed professor of piano at the HfMT Hamburg
herself.
Anna Vinnitskaya has won several international piano competitions. Among her
awards are the first prize at the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels (2007)
and the “Leonard Bernstein Award” of the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival
(2008). Since the beginning of the 2009/2010 season she is taking part in the
concert series “Junge Wilde” at the Konzerthaus Dortmund for the duration of
three years. This special series, presenting seven young artists who pursue
ambitious careers, attracts great attention nationwide.
As a soloist Anna Vinnitskaya regularly performs with renowned orchestras
such as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the City of Birmingham Symphony
Orchestra, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, the NDR and SWR Radio
Symphony Orchestras, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Munich Philharmonic
Orchestra, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the KBS Symphony Orchestra Seoul,
the New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestre National de Belgique as well
as the Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin, the DSO and the Konzerthausorchester
Berlin.
She has collaborated with conductors e.g. Andrey Boreyko, Alan Buribayev,
Charles Dutoit, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Reinhard Goebel, Pietari Inkinen, Marek
Janowski, Dimitri Jurowski, Emmanuel Krivine, Louis Langrйe, Yoel Levi, Andris
Nelsons, Kyrill Petrenko, Helmut Rilling, Krzysztof Urbanski, Juraj Valcuha and
Gilbert Varga.
The list of festivals Anna Vinnitskaya has performed containes the festivals
in Verbier, Schleswig-Holstein, Colmar, Lucerne, la Roque dґAnthйron,
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Lille. The summer of 2013 marked Anna Vinnitskaya’s
successful debut at the Piano Festival Ruhr.
Anna Vinnitskaya has been recording three CDs – all three published by the
French label naпve. The first CD featuring works by Rachmaninov, Gubaidulina,
Medtner and Prokofiev was published in 2009. This recording was awarded the
“Diapason d’Or ‘Nouveautй’” as well as the “Choc du Mois” by Classica Magazine
(June 2009). Furthermore, it was nominated for a Midem-Classical Award (category
“Instrumental Solo”).
In October 2010, this highly successful CD was followed by another: Anna
Vinnitskaya’s first orchestral recording as the soloist of the Deutsches
Sinfonieorchester Berlin under the baton of Gilbert Varga. Anna Vinnitskaya
received the "ECHO Klassik" award in October 2011 for this recording.
In February 2012 Anna Vinnitskayaґs third CD, that is dedicated to piano
works of Maurice Ravel, was published. It was awarded with the "Gramophone
Magazine Editorґs Choice" (September 2012) and the "Diapason dґOr".
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