Anna Vinnitskaya

The daughter of a pair of pianists, Anna Vinnitskaya was born in 1983 in Novorossiysk, Russia, a port city on the Black Sea. She began her piano training with her mother at the age of six and gave her first piano recital when she was nine. Vinnitskaya completed her studies with Sergei Osipenko at the Rachmaninoff Conservatory in Rostov-on-Don and with Evgeni Koroliov at the Hamburg Hochschule für Musik und Theater, where she was appointed professor of piano in October 2009. Vinnitskaya launched her international career in 2007 by winning first prize at the Concours Reine Elisabeth in Brussels, and in 2008 she received the Leonard Bernstein Award. Since then, she has performed with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Israel Philharmonic, Munich Philharmonic, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, NHK Symphony Orchestra, Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, and Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. She made her debuts with the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden and the Berlin Philharmonic in 2019 with Prokofiev’s Second Piano Concerto and, in 2020, with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra playing Shostakovich’s Second Piano Concerto and with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France with Rachmaninoff’s Third. Her partners on the podium include Iván Fischer, Alan Gilbert, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, Marek Janowski, Andris Nelsons, Kirill Petrenko, and Krzysztof Urbański. As a recitalist, Vinnitskaya has made guest appearances in the major concert halls of many European countries as well as in the USA, Brazil, Japan, South Korea, and China. She has received such distinctions as the Diapason d’or and the Echo Klassik for her recordings, which include the Shostakovich concertos with the Kremerata Baltica, works by Rachmaninoff with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, and keyboard concertos by Johann Sebastian Bach with the Kammerakademie Potsdam. Her latest album, which focuses on the Ballades and Impromptus of Frédéric Chopin, was released in February 2021.

Lucerne Festival appearance debut on 30 August 2011, as part of the Debut series in a program of works by Debussy, Scriabin, and Ravel.

July 2021