Due to a visa issue, Ms. Fedorova is unable to perform with us on March 13. However, we are delighted to announce Van Cliburn International Piano Competition Gold Medalist Haochen Zhang has agreed to perform for our March 13 concert.
This is an exceptional opportunity to hear this internationally acclaimed audience favorite who, at age 19, was the youngest and the first Chinese competitor to be awarded the Gold Medal at a Cliburn Competition. Now, only 25 years old, he continues to garner ever-increasing renown. Your tickets for the March concert will be honored. If your email is on file, we will be contacting you within two business weeks with additional information. If you have not been receiving emails, please call our box office.
Anna Fedorova is one of the world’s premier young pianists. From an early age, she 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,” which rendered listeners “completely taken by surprise, compelled and astonished.” In September 2013 Anna performed Rachmaninoff 2nd Piano Concerto at the opening of the season of Sunday Morning Concerts series at the Great hall of the Royal Concertgebouw. Within half a year, the recording of this concert received over 1,000,000 views on YouTube and was highly praised among renown musicians.
She has performed in some of the most prestigious concert halls of Europe, North and South America, and Asia, including the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Carnegie Hall, the Zurich Tonhalle, The Palacio de Bellas Artes (Mexico), the Teatro Colon (Buenos Aires), Cadogan Hall (London), the Warsaw Filharmonia, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, and many others. She has also appeared at numerous Music Festivals such as the Verbier Festival (Switzerland), the IKIF (New York, USA), Violon sur le sable (France), the Rubinstein Piano Festival (Lodz, Poland), the International Piano Festival in Trieste (Italy), the Orpheum Music Festival (Zurich, Switzerland), Musikdorf Ernen (Switzerland), The Corfu Festival of Arts (Greece), the Chopin Festival in Antonin (Poland), and others.
Conductors with whom Anna has had the pleasure of performing with include Jaap Van Zweden, Alun Francis, Howard Griffiths, Justus Franz, Kevin Griffiths, Carlos Miguel Prieto, Jerome Pillement, Shinik Hahm, Alejo Perez, Martin Panteleev, David Lockington, Bartholomeus Van De Velde and many others.
Anna has claimed top prizes at numerous international piano competitions, including the International Rubinstein ‘In Memoriam’ piano competition, the Moscow International Frederick Chopin Competition for young pianists, the Lyon Piano Competition, and recently became recipient of the Verbier Festival Academy Award. She is also two-time laureate of the Dorothy MacKenzie Artist Recognition Scholarship Award at the International Keyboards Institute & Festival (New York, USA). A graduate of the Lysenko School of Music in Kyiv (studio of Borys Fedorov), Anna is currently a student of Norma Fisher at the Royal College of Music in London, where she in the recipient of the Big Give full tuition scholarship. Additionally, Anna studies at the prestigious Accademia Pianistica in Imola, Italy under professor Leonid Margarius. She has also received artistic guidance from world renowned pianists like Alfred Brendel, Menahem Pressler, and Andras Schiff. Highlights of Anna’s future engagements include performances with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Jaap van Zweden, the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie, the Netherlands Philharmonic and Krakow Philharmonic orchestras. She will make appearances at music festivals in Annecy, Auvers-sur Oise, Menuhin Festival Gstaad and Ravinia Festival in 2014 and will also perform in such prestigious concert halls as the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas, the Sala Verdi di Milano, the Gdansk Philharmonic, Krakow Philharmonic and many others.
