Anna Vinnitskaya
Anna Valerevna Winnizkaja ( in other transcription Anna Valeryevna Vinnitskaya, Russian Анна Валерьевна Винницкая; * August 4, 1983 in Novorossiysk ) is a Russian pianist. At the Academy of Music and Theatre in Hamburg is Germany's youngest piano professor.
Life
Anna Winnizkaja comes from a musical family. Her parents are also musicians, their grandfather was a conductor. She showed early musical talent and received from the age of six years of piano lessons. Mid-1990s, Sergei Ossipenko noticed her and offered her to visit his class at the Rachmaninoff Conservatory in Rostov-on- Don. With her parents she moved then from Novorossiysk to Rostov, where she studied from 1996 to 2001 at Ossipenko. Then she went to Germany to Hamburg University of Music and Theatre, where she was taught by Ralf Nattkemper and particularly by Evgeni Koroliov.
From the age of 13, she took part in international competitions. She played with the Moscow Symphony Orchestra, the Dortmunder Philharmoniker, the Milan Symphony Orchestra and the Symphony Orchestra of Madrid. Solo concerts she gave in Russia, Germany, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, France, Norway and Spain.
On June 2, 2007, she became the second woman in the history of the competition the first prize in piano at the Concours Reine Elisabeth in Brussels Musical.
Awards and prizes
- International Junoshenki Competition - First Prize (1995 )
- Monza Competition - Third Prize (2000)
- Jaén Competition - First Prize / Audience Award (2002)
- Elise Meyer Competition ( Hamburg) - First Prize (2004)
- International Piano Competition Ferruccio Busoni (Bolzano) - Fourth Prize (2005)
- Concours Reine Elisabeth Musical - First Prize (2007)
- Leonard Bernstein Award ( 2008)
- ECHO Klassik for best young artist (2011)