Biography
Prof. Anna Gebert enjoys a broad career as a soloist, chamber musician, concertmaster and pedagogue. Her areas of competence range from early baroque to contemporary music. She has appeared at chamber festivals around the world, including Kuhmo, Ravinia, Staunton, Orford, Helsinki, Oslo Early and Trondheim Chamber Music and Barokkfest to name a few. She performed for years with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and has been guest leader with the Stockholm Philharmonic and Opera orchestras, London Symphony Orchestra, Frankfurt and Munich Opera, Helsinki Philharmonic and Odense Symphony Orchestra. She is a member member and guest leader of Barokkanerne Oslo. Anna has been appointed Professor at the Zürich Hochschule der Künste from Autumn 2020, and gives masterclasses and online teaching around the world.
Her violin education started with her mother Grazyna Zeranska and her teacher Zoria Chikmurzaeva as well as Zinaida Gilels and Igor Bezrodny, Magdalena Rezler, taking her to Munich to Ana Chumachenco and Indiana University to Miriam Fried and Stanley Ritchie. After completing her education in the Karajan Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic and a year as a full time player in the orchestra, she was appointment assistant concertmaster in the Cologne Gürzenich Orchestra in 2007 and 1st concertmaster in Trondheim Symphony Orchestra in 2011, a position which she held until 2019.