Background
Anna Vinnitskaya was born in Novorossiysk.
music educator pianist university professor
Anna Vinnitskaya was born in Novorossiysk.
From 1995 to 2001, she studied at the Rachmaninoff Conservatory in Rostov-on-Don with Sergei Ossipenko, after which she was admitted to the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg, where she studied with Ralf Nattkemper and Evgeni Koroliov.
She displayed musical talent from an early age, following her first piano lessons at age 6. As a soloist, she has played with major orchestras, including the Moscow Symphony Orchestra, the Dortmunder Philharmoniker, the Milan Symphony Orchestra and the Orquesta Sinfonica de Madrid, and has given recitals all around Europe. She entered the competition circuit at age 13, winning first prize at the International Junoshenki competition.
This was followed with a first prize at the Elise Meyer Competition in Hamburg in 2004, and the fourth prize in the Ferruccio Busoni International Competition in Bolzano in 2005.
After a memorable Gaspard de la nuit (Ravel) in the first rounds, she impressed the audience and jury in the final round with Beethoven"s Sonata Number.13 in East flat "Quasi una fantasia", Operation 27 Number.1; the compulsory work Louisiana Luna y la Muerte by Miguel Gálvez-Taroncher.
And the Piano Concerto Number.2 by Sergei Prokofiev.