Anna Vinnitskaya

Anna Vinnitskaya’s piano playing is characterized by the utmost virtuosity and poetic depth, for which she has been praised by critics and audiences alike. She never employs technical brilliance as a virtuoso end in itself, but always as a means of expression.

Anna Vinnitskaya celebrated her international breakthrough by winning first prize at the Concours Reine Elisabeth in Brussels in 2007. Today, she is a valued partner of numerous leading orchestras and conductors around the world, including Andris Nelsons, Valery Gergiev, Krzysztof Urbański, Dmitri Kitajenko, Alan Gilbert and Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla.

One of the highlights of the 2021/22 season is her renewed collaboration with Kirill Petrenko and the Berliner Philharmoniker. As part of their joint tour, she makes her debut at the Salzburg Festival and returns to the Lucerne Festival and the Philharmonie in Paris.

Anna Vinnitskaya’s debuts with the Staatskapelle Dresden, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France led to immediate invitations to the return. Most recently, she was artist in residence with the Dresden Philharmonic thanks to the invitation of Marek Janowski, as well as with the WDR Symphony Orchestra in Cologne and the Frankfurt Opera and Museum Orchestra. She regularly gives recitals as part of leading piano series at the Philharmonie in Berlin, Cologne, Essen, Dortmund, Stuttgart, Munich and Hamburg, as well as at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, the Konzerthaus in Vienna and the Suntory Hall in Tokyo.

Anna Vinnitskaya is a passionate chamber musician. She can be heard as part of a piano trio with violinist Emmanuel Tjeknavorian and cellist Daniel Müller-Schott during the 2021/22 season, performing works by Debussy, Tchaikovsky, Brahms and Schubert.
Her CD recordings have won numerous prizes, including the Diapason d’Or and editor’s choice in Gramophone. At the start of 2021, she released an album of Chopin’s ballades and impromptus, which received widespread critical acclaim. Previous recordings include a Rachmaninoff album with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra and Krzysztof Urbański, as well as a recording of Bach’s keyboard concertos with Evgeni Koroliov, Ljupka Hadzi Georgieva and the Potsdam Chamber Academy for Alpha Classics / Outhere Music.

Anna Vinnitskaya was born in Novorossiysk in Russia. She studied with Sergei Ossipienko in Rostov and with Evgeni Koroliov at the University of Music and Theatre in Hamburg, where she has been a professor since 2009.