“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

 

 

 

“…a true lioness at the keyboard,” Anna Vinnitskaya was born in Russia in 1983. Winner of several international competitions, including the 2007 Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels, her breathtaking virtuosity and fiery temperament thrill audiences everywhere.  Among the orchestras with which Anna has appeared are the Basel Symphony, Israel Philharmonic, KBS Symphony/Seoul, Luxembourg Philharmonic, Munich Philharmonic, National Orchestra of Belgium, NDR Orchestra/Hamburg, RSO/Berlin, Royal Philharmonic/London and the SDR Orchestra in Stuttgart.  Conductors with whom she has collaborated include Charles Dutoit, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Pietari Inkinen, Marek Janowski,  Dimitri Jurowski, Emmanuel Krivine, Louis Langrée, Yoel Levi, Kyrill Petrenko, Juraj Valcuha and Gilbert Varga.

  

Solo recitals have led Anna Vinnitskaya to the United States, Brazil, Korea, China, Japan, and to most of the European countries.  She appears frequently at international festivals such as Schleswig-Holstein (where she received the 2008 Leonard Bernstein Award), Rheingau, Verbier, and La Roque d’Anthéron.  Between 2009 and 2012, Anna will be performing on the Junge Wilde Concert Series at the Konzerthaus in Dortmund.  Known for presenting exceptional young artists on the threshold of international careers, the series attracts great attention throughout Germany. 

  

In April 2009, Anna Vinnitskaya’s debut CD, featuring works by Rachmaninov, Gubaidulina, Medtner and Prokofiev, was released on the French label, Naïve.  This recording received several awards including the “Diapason d’Or Nouveauté” and the “CD des Doppelmonats” (Piano News Magazine); it was also nominated for a Midem-Classical Award in the Instrumental Solo category.  Also for Naïve, Anna’s first orchestral CD was recently released, featuring Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 2 and Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G with the Deutsches Sinfonieorchester in Berlin under Gilbert Varga.

Anna Vinnitskaya received her first piano lessons from her mother at the age of six and made her first public appearance three years later.  After studies at the Rachmaninov Conservatory in Rostov-on-Don, she attracted the attention of renowned pianist and pedagogue, Ralf Nattkemper. In 2002, he invited her to continue her studies with Professor Evgeni Koroliov at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg. In 2009, she was appointed Professor of piano at the same institute.

 

www.annavinnitskaya.com

 

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