“Vinnitskaya is a true lioness at the keyboard, devouring the most difficult pages of music with adamantine force. She seemed almost to relish the technical thickets, never rushing, never banging, maintaining control of wildly different simultaneous textures (in the Gubaidulina Chaconne) and pacing long buildups with unswerving focus. In this literature, she has everything a top-level artist needs.”

Recital: Washington Performing Arts Society

WASHINGTON POST

 

 

 

Hailed by the Washington Post as a “lioness at the keyboard,” Anna Vinnitskaya has emerged as one of the most exciting pianists of her generation. Born in 1983 in Novorossiysk, Russia, she played her first orchestral concert at the age of eight and her first recital at the age of nine. After studies in Russia with Sergej Osipenko, Ms. Vinnitskaya became a protégé of Evgeni Koroliov at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater in 2002, where she herself was appointed Professor of Piano in 2009.

Already established on the international stage, Ms. Vinnitskaya’s upcoming engagements include the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie/Bremen, Indianapolis Symphony, Konzerthausorchester/Berlin, National Orchestra of Russia, Orquestra Filarmônica de Minas Gerais/Belo Horizonte, Brazil, and the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra in Moscow. Recital appearances include performances in Bensheim, Cologne, Leverkusen, and Wuppertal. She will make her New York recital debut at the Frick Collection in October 6, 2013.

Other renowned orchestras with whom Ms. Vinnitskaya has performed include the City of Birmingham Symphony, Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, the radio symphony orchestras of Hamburg, Stuttgart, and Berlin, New Japan Philharmonic, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, and KBS Symphony Orchestra/Seoul, as well as at the Lucerne Festival in 2011. She collaborates regularly with conductors such as Andrey Boreyko, Alan Buribayev, Charles Dutoit, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Pietari Inkinen, Marek Janowski, Dimitri Jurowski, Emmanuel Krivine, Louis Langrée, Yoel Levi, Kyrill Petrenko, Krzysztof Urba?ski, Juraj Valcuha, and Gilbert Varga. Also an enthusiastic chamber music player, she collaborates regularly as a trio with violinist Erik Schumann and cellist Nicolas Altstaedt. 

Anna Vinnitskaya has won several international piano competitions and received numerous awards, most notably first prize at the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels (2007) and the Leonard Bernstein Award at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival (2008). For the past three years, she has taken part in the concert series “Junge Wilde” at the Konzerthaus in Dortmund. This special series presents young artists who pursue ambitious international careers. 

In April 2009, Ms. Vinnitskaya’s debut recital recording was released on the French label NAÏVE, featuring works by Rachmaninov, Gubaidulina, Medtner and Prokofiev. This recording was awarded the “Diapason d’Or” as well as the “Choc du Mois” by Classica Magazine. It was also nominated for a Midem-Classical Award. In October 2010, she made her first orchestral CD, featuring Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No.2 and Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G with the Deutsches Sinfonieorchester/Berlin under the direction of Gilbert Varga. This album earned her an ECHO Klassik award in October 2011. Ms. Vinnitskaya’s most recent CD, including Ravel’s “Miroirs” and “Gaspard de la nuit” also received the “Diapason d’Or”. 

 

 

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