Curriculum Vitae
Anna Vinnitskaya was born in 1983 in the Russian city of Novorossiysk. Her parents are also pianists. She began piano lessons at the age of six with her mother, and played her first solo recital at the age of nine. After studying with Sergey Ossipenko at the Serge Rachmaninoff Conservatory in Rostov-on-Don, she attracted the attention of Ralf Nattkemper at a piano competition. He invited her to the Hochschule für Musik und Theater (HfMT) in Hamburg, where she began training with Evgeni Koroliov in October 2002. In October 2009 she was in her turn appointed professor of piano at the HfMT Hamburg. Anna Vinnitskaya has won several international prizes, most notably first prize at the Queen Elisabeth International Music Competition in Brussels in 2007 and the Leonard Bernstein Award at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival in 2008.
Solo engagements have repeatedly allowed her to play with many notable orchestras, among them the Münchner Philharmoniker, the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, the NDR and SWR Symphony Orchestras, the Royal Philharmonic, the Israel Philharmonic, the Luxembourg Philharmonic, the Belgian National Orchestra, and the KBS Symphony Orchestra Seoul. Conductors with whom she has worked include Charles Dutoit, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Louis Langrée, Marek Janowski, Emmanuel Krivine, Kyrill Petrenko, Juraj Valcuha, Dimitri Jurowski, Alan Buribayev, Pietari Inkinen, and Gilbert Varga. She has enjoyed a particularly close rapport with the last-named ever since the final round of the Queen Elisabeth International Music Competition.
She is acclaimed by audiences worldwide for her solo recitals, and is a welcome guest at such internationally renowned festivals as Schleswig-Holstein, Rheingau, Verbier, and the Festival de Piano de La Roque d’Anthéron. For a three-year period starting with the 2009/10 season, Anna Vinnitskaya is one of the artists in the ‘Junge Wilde’ series at the Konzerthaus in Dortmund.
Anna Vinnitskaya’s debut CD, a programme of works by Rachmaninoff, Gubaidulina, Medtner and Prokofiev, was released on Naïve in April 2009. The recording was awarded the ‘Diapason d’Or Découverte’ and a ‘Choc du Mois’ in the magazine Classica. It was also chosen as ‘CD des Doppelmonats’ in the magazine Piano News and nominated for a Midem Classical Award in the Solo Instrumental category.
