Anna FEDOROVA

"Anna Fedorova's playing is "unfailingly sensitive, poetic and tasteful, the phrases flexibly shaped even when the technical going gets tough (...) she never forces her tone and never loses her cool” (Gramophone).

From an early age, the Ukrainian-born pianist Anna Fedorova showed an innate musical maturity and amazing technical abilities. Her live recording of Rachmaninoff’s 2nd Piano Concerto has more than 35 million views on YouTube and is highly acclaimed by critics and world-renowned musicians. She regularly performs at the world’s most prestigious concert halls such as the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, New York's Carnegie Hall, Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, Tonhalle Zürich, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Bunka Kaikan in Tokyo, and many others. 

As a soloist, Anna Fedorova has performed with the Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic, Tokyo Symphony, Yomiuri Orchestra, Russian National Orchestra, Utah Symphony, Dallas Symphony, Hongkong Philharmonic, the Netherlands Philharmonic, and many more. Called the ‘house pianist’ (Telegraaf) of the Concertgebouw, Anna Fedorova has performed there more than 30 times as well as in numerous online and television broadcasts. She is a regular guest at leading music festivals such as Verbier and Menuhin Festivals in Switzerland, Stift Music Festival in the Netherlands, Festival de Sintra in Portugal, Ravinia Festival in the USA. In July 2022 Anna performed with the Verbier Festival Orchestra at the opening of the Verbier Festival and she made her debut at the international piano festival La Roque d’Anthéron. 

Anna was one of the first musicians to come up with the idea of organizing benefit concerts for the victims of the war in Ukraine. Together with befriended and well-known musicians, she raised over 100,000 Euro for humanitarian aid organizations on 6 March 2022 in Concertgebouw Amsterdam. Since then, Anna has performed over 20 benefit concerts in March and April 2022. 

In the summer of 2022, Anna Fedorova was invited to be the piano soloist of the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra. Between July 28th and August 20th, they performed under the baton of Keri-Lynn Wilson at Teatr Wielki–Polish National Opera, Royal Albert Hall London (televised BBC Proms concert), Munich, Chorégies d’Orange, Konzerthaus Berlin, Edinburgh Festival, Summer at Snape Maltings, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Lincoln Centre New York (twice) and Kennedy Centre Washington. 

In 2018, Anna Fedorova signed with Channel Classics Records for a series of recordings. She has released three solo piano albums, four chamber music albums, and all of Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concertos with the Sinfonieorchester St. Gallen. BBC Music Magazine gave a 5+5 star-review for the first album with Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 1, Preludes, and Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. In November the album “Fathers and Daughters” will appear featuring Anna and Dana Zemtsov and their fathers. 

Anna Fedorova graduated from the Lysenko School of Music in Kyiv with Borys Fedorov and the Accademia Pianistica in Imola, Italy, with Leonid Margarius. She received her Master’s degree and Artist Diploma at the Royal College of Music, London, under the guidance of Norma Fisher. Her mentors include Alfred Brendel, Menahem Pressler, Steven Isserlis, and sir András Schiff. 

In 2022, Anna Fedorova and double bassist Nicholas Santangelo Schwartz founded the Davidsbündler Music Academy in The Hague. Before the Academy’s door officially opened in September 2022, the Davidsbündler Foundation already started to provide top quality musical education to Ukrainian refugees who have fled to the Netherlands.