Fondazione Accademia di Musica di Pinerolo e Torino

Charismatic pianist, with a “radiant sound and poetic interpretations that could reduce audiences to tears” (New York Times), Anna Kravtchenko, with her unique style and extraordinary expressive power, fruit of her genuinely spiritual nature, transforms every concert into a captivating and enlightening experience. Anna Kravtchenko rose to international prominence after winning, at just 16 years old and unanimously, the prestigious Ferruccio Busoni International Competition in Bolzano, in the same year she also won the Concertino Praga. Since then, she has performed in some of Europe’s most important concert halls, including the Berlin Philharmonie, Vienna’s Musikverein, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, Zurich’s Tonhalle, London’s Wigmore Hall, Geneva’s Victoria Hall, Salle Gaveau in Paris, and at major festivals such as Ruhr Klavier-Festival, La Roque d’Anthéron, Piano aux Jacobins in Toulouse, the Bergen Festival, and the Brescia and Bergamo Festival. She has also given concerts in Japan, South Africa, the United States, and Canada. She has appeared as a soloist with leading international orchestras including the BBC Philharmonic, Swedish Radio Symphony, London Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Bayrischer Rundfunk Orchestra, Netherlands Philharmonic, Bergen Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Israel Chamber Orchestra, Dutch Radio Symphony Orchestra, Cape Town Philharmonic, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin (RSO), RAI National Symphony Orchestra, and Teatro Petruzzelli Orchestra in Bari, among many others. Under the baton of renowned conductors such as Jaap van Zweden, Antoni Wit, Walter Weller, Pavel Kogan, Cristian Mandeal, and Alexander Shelley. Highly active in chamber music, she has performed with artists such as Stefan Milenkovich, Pavel Berman, Sergey Krylov, and Enrico Dindo. In 2006, she released two CDs for DECCA, entirely dedicated to Chopin and Liszt, both of which received five-star reviews (Amadeus, Musica, etc.), and she won the International Web Concert Hall Competition in the United States. After teaching for 15 years at the Imola Piano Academy, she is currently a piano professor at the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano. She was admitted “ad honorem” to the Imola Academy.