Winning first prize at the 2007 Concours Reine Elisabeth in Brussels marked Anna Vinnitskaya’s international breakthrough. Her performances with leading orchestras such as the Berliner Philharmoniker, the Leipziger Gewandhausorchester, the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, the Münchner Philharmoniker, the NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and the Boston Symphony Orchestra have been met with great enthusiasm worldwide. The breathtaking technical precision and tonal nuance of her piano playing allow her to bring maximum artistic expression to her interpretations. Uncompromising dedication, energy and poetic depth characterise Anna Vinnitskaya’s piano playing.
During the 2026/27 season, she will, amongst other engagements, embark on a tour of German cities with the Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz under Michael Francis – performing Bartók’s Piano Concerto No. 1, which she will also play with the Dresdner Philharmonie conducted by Gergely Madaras. She will also be touring the UK, Germany and Austria with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, conducted by Thomas Søndergård, performing piano concertos by Tchaikovsky and Schumann, and will give several solo recitals, including in Osnabrück and Prague.
In the 2025/26 season, Anna Vinnitskaya performed Rachmaninoff’s piano concertos with, amongst others, the Orchestre de Paris under Klaus Mäkelä, the London Philharmonic Orchestra under Vladimir Jurowski, and the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin under Valentin Uryupin. With the Berner Symphonieorchester and Principal Conductor Krzysztof Urbański, she performed all of Rachmaninoff’s piano concertos over two consecutive evenings. Ravel’s Concerto for the Left Hand featured on the programme for the gala concert at the Wiener Musikverein to mark the 125th anniversary of the Wiener Symphoniker, which Anna Vinnitskaya performed together with Principal Conductor Petr Popelka, followed by a tour to the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, the Müpa Budapest, the Philharmonie in Essen and the Konzerthaus Freiburg. In the 2025/26 season, Anna Vinnitskaya gave recitals in Bordeaux, Tokyo, Paris, Luxembourg, Madrid and Hamburg, amongst other venues. Together with Evgeni Koroliov and Ljupka Hadzi-Georgieva, she performed Bach’s works for one to three pianos and orchestra with the Menuhin Academy Soloists in Vienna and Basel, as well as with the Kölner Kammerorchester at the Kölner Philharmonie.
During the 2024/25 season, Anna Vinnitskaya was the Artist in Residence at the Philharmonie Essen. In addition to a series of chamber concerts and recitals, she made guest appearances there with the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich under the baton of Paavo Järvi, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra under Elim Chan, and with Herbert Grönemeyer and the Bochumer Symphoniker.
Anna Vinnitskaya’s CD recordings on Alpha/Outhere have been honoured with numerous awards, such as the Diapason d’or and the Gramophone Editor’s Choice, including a celebrated Chopin album, a Rachmaninoff album with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester and Krzysztof Urbański, and the album "Piano Dances", released in 2024. On this album, she combined her own arrangement of Ravel’s highly virtuosic piece "La Valse" and his "Valses nobles et sentimentales" with Shostakovich’s "Puppet Dances" and Jörg Widmann’s "Circus Dances". Particularly close to her heart is the recording of Bach’s piano concertos together with Evgeni Koroliov, Ljupka Hadzi Georgieva and the Kammerakademie Potsdam.
Anna Vinnitskaya was born in Novorossiysk, Russia. She studied with Sergei Ossipienko in Rostov and subsequently with Evgeni Koroliov at the University of Music and Theatre in Hamburg, where she has been teaching as a professor since 2009. Anna Vinnitskaya is increasingly serving as a juror at prestigious piano competitions, most recently at the Queen Elisabeth Competition in May 2025 and the ARD International Music Competition in September 2025.