Anna Vinnitskaya

The daughter of a pianist couple, Anna Vinnitskaya was born in Novorossiysk on the Black Sea in 1983. She began her piano studies with her mother at the age of six and gave her first recital when she was nine. Vinnitskaya then completed her studies with Sergei Ossipenko at the Rachmaninoff Conservatory in Rostov-on-Don and with Evgeni Koroliov at the Hamburg University of Music and Drama. She was appointed professor of piano there in October 2009. Anna Vinnitskaya launched her international career in 2007 by winning first prize at the Concours Reine Elisabeth in Brussels, and in 2008 she was awarded the Leonard Bernstein Award at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival. Since then, she has performed with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Israel Philharmonic, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the Munich Philharmonic, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the NHK Symphony Orchestra, the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. In 2019, she made her debut with the Staatskapelle Dresden and the Berliner Philharmoniker playing Prokofiev’s Second Piano Concerto, and in 2023 she performed Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. In the 2023-24 season, she presented a Rachmaninoff cycle with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, was artist-in-residence at the Kammerakademie Potsdam, and toured China with the Budapest Festival Orchestra under Iván Fischer. Vinnitskaya has given recitals in the major concert halls of many European countries as well as in the USA, Brazil, Japan, Korea, and China. She has received such awards as the Diapason d’or and the Echo Klassik for her recordings. She has recorded the Shostakovich concertos with the Kremerata Baltica and piano concertos by Johann Sebastian Bach with the Kammerakademie Potsdam. Her most recent album, Dances, was released in April 2024 and includes dances by Ravel, Shostakovich, and Widmann.

Debut at Lucerne Festival was on 30 August 2011 as part of the Debut series and included works by Debussy, Scriabin, and Ravel.

April 2024