Anna Vinnitskaya

»I never asked myself whether I wanted to be a pianist. […] Presumably it was initially something my parents wanted, but after five, six years, the piano had become a part of life just like eating and breathing.« For Anna Vinnitskaya, that is still true to this day. And by now, the pianist, who was born in Novorossiysk on the shores of the Black Sea in 1983, is one of the great piano stars of our time. That such a path can sometimes involve hardships was a lesson she had to learn at the age of 18, when she came to Hamburg all by herself to study music. She now teaches at the Hochschule für Musik herself, sharing her passion and knowledge with students from around the world. And powerful musicality is not the only thing the young musicians can learn from Anna Vinnitskaya: she can also teach them a thing or two about putting together a great programme.