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    Anna Pismak

    Funktion
    Korrepetitorin - Interpretation und Performance
    Bereich
    Departement Musik

    Anna Pismak

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    Biografie

    Anna Pismak began playing the piano at the age of five, inspired by her mother, a piano teacher, who nurtured her early love for music. Anna made her first public recital at seven, followed by a concerto debut at ten.

    Anna is a prize-winner at over twenty international competitions, among them the 4th Oeiras Piano Competition (III Prize, Portugal), the 17th International Piano Competition of the Conservatoire Russe de Paris (I Prize, France), the 1st International Piano Competition “Chopin at Wawel” (III Prize, Poland), the 1st International Nikolai Medtner Competition (III Prize, Russia), and the Stockholm International Music Competition (I Prize, Sweden). She is a recipient of the St. Petersburg ‘New Names’ Award and a laureate of the ‘Hope of Russia’ programme. Anna was awarded the Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship for Foreign Artists, and as well represented the St. Petersburg House of Music as a soloist for many years. In 2024, she participated in the Gstaad Piano Academy, working under the guidance of Sir András Schiff.

    Anna has performed on some of the most renowned stages, including the Grand and Small Halls of the St. Petersburg Philharmonia, the New Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre, Sverdlovsk State Philharmonic, BR Studio 1 in Munich, Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin, the Auditorium du Parc du Château de Florans in La Roque-d’Anthéron, Zürich’s Tonhalle, and Tonhalle Maag (Klangraum). She has also been invited to record and perform live on Radio Geneva and Swiss Radio in Zürich.

    As a soloist, Anna has given acclaimed concerto performances with leading orchestras such as the St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, the Youth Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre, the Riga Philharmonic, and numerous other orchestras across Europe.

    Alongside her performance activities, since 2023 she also works as an artistic assistant to Prof. Eckart Heiligers at the Zurich University of the Arts.

    A passionate chamber musician, Anna was a member of the Arabesque Trio, which was selected as an ensemble in residence at the 43rd Festival International de Piano de La Roque d’Anthéron, awarded a Special Prize at the Concours International de Musique de Chambre de Lyon, and reached the semifinals of the 2023 ARD International Music Competition. Her chamber music collaborations have also included performances with artists such as Elena Obraztsova, Alexander Ponomarenko, Aleksey Igudesman and Félix Dervaux.

    Between 2021 and 2023, Anna was a member of the piano academy at the Philharmonia Zürich (Opernhaus Zürich). Since 2022, she has appeared as a guest artist with the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano. In 2024, she participated in the Grafenegg Academy in Austria.

    Anna holds an Artist Diploma from the Barenboim–Said Akademie in Berlin, where she studied with Sir András Schiff. She previously completed both Instrumental Performance - Concert and Soloist Master’s Degrees at the Zurich University of the Arts with Eckart Heiligers, and graduated with distinction from the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory in St. Petersburg, where she studied with Tatiana Zagorovskaya.

    Anna has performed in masterclasses with some of the world’s leading pianists, including Alfred Brendel, Igor Zhukov, Stephen Kovacevich, Gabriel Kwok, Michael Voskresensky, Ricardo Cecchetti, Vincent Coq, Claire Désert, Henri Sigfridsson, and Ian Jones. She has also received artistic input from Maestro Daniel Barenboim.