The highest virtuosity and poetic depth: audiences and critics alike appreciate that Anna Vinnitskaya can not only ignite spectacular fireworks, but also knows how to paint great paintings. Her technical brilliance is never a virtuoso end in itself, but always a means of expression. Creative power and tonal nuance, unconditionality and energy characterize Anna Vinnitskaya's piano playing.
The 1st prize at the Concours Reine Elisabeth in Brussels in 2007 marked Anna Vinnitskaya's international breakthrough. Today she is a valued partner of many major orchestras worldwide and leading conductors such as Andris Nelsons, Krzysztof Urbański, Dmitri Kitajenko, Alan Gilbert, Kirill Petrenko and Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla.
Anna Vinnitskaya's debuts with the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France led to immediate re-invitations. More recently, she has been resident artist with the Dresden Philharmonic at the invitation of Marek Janowski, the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne and the Frankfurt Museum Orchestra. With piano recitals, she is a regular guest at renowned piano series such as the Berlin Philharmonic, Cologne, Essen, Dortmund, Stuttgart, Munich and Hamburg, the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels, Konzerthaus Vienna and Suntory Hall in Tokyo. In the current season, she is performing with the hr Symphony Orchestra, the Bern Symphony Orchestra, the Dresden Philharmonic, the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, among others.
Anna Vinnitskaya is also a passionate chamber musician. With the Schumann Quartet, she will perform Robert Schumann's Piano Quintet, among other works, in April 2023.
CD recordings by Anna Vinnitskaya have won numerous awards such as the Diapason d'Or and the Gramophone Editor's Choice. At the beginning of 2021, she presented an album of Frédéric Chopin's Ballades and Impromptus, which has been received with continuing critical enthusiasm. "With what naturalness the arpeggios and runs interlock, how elegantly and sublimely she phrases musical lines at the same time - that's how you have to play Chopin," was Mascha Drost's verdict on Deutschlandfunk. Previous releases include a Rachmaninoff album with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester and Krzysztof Urbański, and a recording of Bach's piano concertos together with Evgeni Koroliov, Lyupka Hadzi Georgieva, and the Kammerakademie Potsdam (Alpha Classics/Outhere Music), to name a few.
Anna Vinnitskaya was born in Novorossiysk, Russia. She studied with Sergei Osipienko in Rostov and then with Evgeni Koroliov at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg, where she herself has been a professor since 2009.