Anna Vinnitskaya

Anna Vinnitskaya’s path to the international stage opened in 2007 with her victory at the renowned Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels, where she became only the second woman in the history of the competition to win first prize. In concert, she captivates audiences with her flawless technique, irresistible energy and her ability to penetrate deeply into the inner world of the works she performs. “Her approach is poetically inflected without ever descending into slushiness,” wrote Gramophone. Yet passion is never lacking: “Vinnitskaya is a true lioness at the keyboard, devouring the most difficult pages of music with adamantine force,” observed The Washington Post. She collaborates with the world’s leading orchestras and conductors. Recent appearances include concerts with the Orchestre de Paris and Klaus Mäkelä, the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich under Paavo Järvi, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra with Joana Mallwitz. When Petr Popelka assumed the post of Chief Conductor of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra in 2022, he invited Anna Vinnitskaya to perform Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto in B-flat minor at his inaugural concert.

Her recordings, too, are highly acclaimed, earning some of the most prestigious distinctions, including the French Diapason d’Or and Editor’s Choice from the British magazine Gramophone. Her Chopin album was described by Fono Forum as “a recording for the lonely island.”. All the more enticing, then, is the invitation to her festival recital, where she will perform one of Chopin’s supreme masterpieces – the Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor. The programme will also feature Three Intermezzi by Johannes Brahms, Sergei Rachmaninoff’s virtuosic Variations on a Theme of Corelli, and Piano Sonata No. 3 in the unusual key of F-sharp minor by the Russian mystic Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin.