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Fedorova Anna
Anna Fedorova was born into a family of musicians in Kyiv (Ukraine) and, from an early age, demonstrated an innate musical maturity and astounding technical abilities. Her international concert career took off while she was only a child, and audiences around the world were stunned by the depth and power of her musical expression. Critics have praised Anna's signature “sweet modesty and wild expression,” that rendered listeners “completely taken by surprise, compelled and astonished.”
Anna’s extensive concert career has taken her to the most prestigious halls of Europe, North and South America, and Asia. Among them are more than a dozen solo recitals at the Grote Zaal of the Amsterdam Concertgebouw and Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ, The Palacio de Bellas Artes and Sala Nezahualcoyotl in Mexico City, the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, The Great Hall of the Tonhalle in Zurich, the Warsaw Filharmonia, the Warsaw Opera Theater, the Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, and many others.
Among the numerous music festivals that Anna has performed at are the International Keyboard Festival & Institute in New York, the Arthur Rubinstein Piano Festival in Lodz, the International Piano Festival in Trieste, the Orpheum Music Festival in Zurich, Musikdorf Ernen Festival (Switzerland), Corfu Festival of Arts and others.
In March, 2009 Anna performed the Dutch premiere of the Rachmaninoff/Warenberg 5th Piano Concerto (Arr. of Rachmaninoff’s 2nd symphony) in Het Concertgebouw, Amsterdam with the Netherlands Symphony Orchestra under Martin Panteleev. The concert was a great success, and later that year she performed the Mexican premier with the OFUNAM orchestra under Alun Francis. In November the Argentinian premier followed with the OFBA under Alejo Perez.
Her recent tours included appearances as soloist with the Orquestra Filarmonica de Buenos Aires with conductor Alejo Perez, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne under Howard Griffiths, the Philarmonia of the Nations under Justus Franz, the OFUNAM under Alun Francis, the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie under Kevin Griffiths, the Orquesta Sinfonica Nacional de Mexico with conductors Carlos Miguel Prieto and Shinik Hahm who also accompanied her with the Xalapa Symphony Orchestra, the Slovak Sinfonietta under Martin Panteleev and Bartholomeus Van De Velde, the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine under Volodymyr Sirenko and many others. Anna Fedorova is the winner of 14 international piano competitions including a First Prize at the International Rubinstein 'In Memoriam' piano competition (Poland 2009), 1st prize at the Tbilisi International Young Pianists competition in Georgia, where she also received the Special Prize "Best Pianist of the Competition," Verbier festival accademy award (2012), the 'Prix Denis Antoine' at the Piano Campus (Pontoise 2012), the third prize and audience prize at Lyon piano competitio (France, 2012) the Dorothy McKenzie awards at the International Keyboard Institute and Festival (NY, USA 2006, 2007, 2008) the Second Prize and Special Prize of the Institute of Frederick Chopin at the Fourth Moscow International Frederick Chopin Competition for young pianists.
In 2008 Anna Fedorova graduated from the Lysenko Musical College for Gifted Children (Kiev, Ukraine, class of Boris Fedorov). She was the recipient of “The President of the Ukraine Scholarship” during 2003-2008. Since 2008 she is a student of Leonid Margarius at the Accademia Pianistica Internazionale di Imola “Incontri col Maestro”. In Fall of 2012, she will be entering the prestigious Royal College of Music in London (Studio of Norma Fisher) where she was awarded an ABRSM full tuition scholarship. Also she was fortunate to have the opportunity to follow the guidance of such renown musicians as Alfred Brendel, Menahem Pressler, Dmitri Bashkirov, Arie Vardi, Vladimir Viardo, Jerome Rose and others.
Highlights from Ms. Fedorova's past year include performances in Japan with the Tokyo New City Orchestra, in the Great Hall of the Tonhalle of Zurich with the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne (conductor Howard Griffiths), and solo recitals at the Warsaw Filharmonia, the Warsaw National Opera, the Paris Salle Cortot, and the Great Hall of the Amsterdam Concertgebouw.
Future engagements for the 2012/2013 season include concerts in Poland, Netherlands, Mexico, USA, China, Switzerland, and France with performances at the Salle Cortot (Paris), opening of the season at Grote Zaal Concergebouw, the Chopin Festival (Antonin), Menton Festival (France) and Carnegie Hall (New York).