Anna Fedorova

Anna Fedorova (Anna Borysivna Fedorova: А́нна Бори́сівна Фе́дорова; born 27 February 1990) is a Ukrainian concert pianist. Fedorova performs as soloist, chamber musician and with symphony orchestras in the major concert halls of the Netherlands, Germany, France, Italy, UK, Ukraine, US, Mexico, Argentina, and Asia. Fedorova is a David Young Piano Prize Holder supported by a Soiree d’Or Award and Keyboard Trust.

Early life
Fedorova was born in Kiev, Ukraine (then Ukrainian SSR). Both her mother, Tatiana Abayeva, and father, Boris Fedorov, have been concert musicians, scholars, and teachers. From the time she was two years old, she always wanted to go to the piano. She began playing at age five. She gave her first public recital when she was six, and she gave her national debut at the age of seven, at the National Philharmonic Society of Ukraine.

Regarding her early childhood, Fedorova has said that, with both parents being professional pianists, there was always "the sound of the piano in the house." Her parents gave her lessons, and she said that "they were decisive for my musical development."

Education
In 2008, Fedorova graduated from the Lysenko Musical College for Gifted Children. As a student, she was the recipient of “The President of the Ukraine Scholarship” during 2003-2008.

Outside her native Ukraine, Fedorova studied under Leonid Margarius at The International Piano Academy, which is a school of advanced piano performance specialization located in Imola, Italy.

Fedorova also studied at the Royal College of Music in London under Norma Fisher. She was a recipient of the Big Give full tuition scholarship.

She has also received artistic guidance from world-renowned pianists like Alfred Brendel, Menahem Pressler, and András Schiff.

Career
Fedorova's "international concert career took off while she was only a child." In 2006, at the age of sixteen, she made her debut at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam in the Netherlands. She played Chopin’s Piano Concerto No 2. Since then, Fedorova has performed there more than thirty times.

Fedorova's manager Rob Groen recounted the first time he heard her play. He "reluctantly" heard her play "as part of a group of piano students performing for him in Kiev." The first three were "all very good," but, when he heard Anna, he was "in shock" by her "exceptional talent."

Musical critics have praised Fedorova’s signature “sweet modesty and wild expression,” which rendered listeners “completely taken by surprise, compelled and astonished.” Fedorova says about her playing, "You can really paint with music. You see the colorful, inspiring scenes."

Music Festivals and Competions
Fedorova has appeared at "numerous International Music Festivals" and has "claimed top prizes" in Italy, Greece, Germany, Slovakia, Estonia and the Czech Republic. Music festivals in which she has appeared include the following:

Annecy Classic Musical Festival in Annecy, France.
Aurora Music Festival in Stockholm, Sweden.
Festival of Auvers-sur-Oise in Auvers-sur-Oise, France.
The Chopin Festival in Antonin, Poland.
The Corfu Festival of Arts in Corfu, Greece.
The first International Chamber Music Festival held in the Edesche Concert Hall in Ede, Netherlands. The festival runs from May 25 to May 28, 2017. Fedorova will be one of the performers as well as the artistic director. Previously, she had often performed in Ede, and she was "the artist in residence in the 2015/2016 season." As artistic leader, Fedorova will be the central musician of the ICFEde, "a starting intercultural Christian community in the municipality of Ede."
The Festival Internacional de Música Clássica de João Pessoa in João Pessoa, Brazil. After her 2014 concerts in Brazil, Fedorova said, "it was special to experience how the people react to my music, I could see in their eyes how curious and excited they were."
The Frederick Chopin Competition in Narva, Estonia in 2004 at which Fedorova won first prize.
The Gstaad Menuhin Festival in Gstaad, Switzerland.
The Institute of Frederick Chopin at the Fourth Moscow International Frederick Chopin Competition for Young Pianists in Moscow, Russia. Fedorova won the Second Prize and a Special Prize in 2004.
The International Keyboard Institute & Festival (IKIF) in New York City, US. In 2006, 2007 and 2008, Fedorova won the Dorothy MacKenzie Artist Recognition Scholarship Award.
The International Piano Festival in Trieste, Italy.
The International Rubinstein ‘In Memoriam’ piano competition in Bydgoszcz, Poland in 2009 at which Fedorova won First Prize.
The Lyon Piano Competition in Lyon, France in 2012 at which Fedorova won a Third Prize and the Audience Award.
The Musikdorf Ernen in Ernen, Switzerland.
The Orpheum Music Festival in Zurich, Switzerland.
The Ravinia Festival in Highland Park, Illinois, US.
The Rubinstein Piano Festival in Lodz, Poland. Fedorova took First Prize in 2009. In 2011, Fedorova played F. Chopin's Two Nocturnes Op. 27; Valse in A Flat Major, Op. 42 with the Orchestra Polish Camerata, conducted by Marek Glowacki.
The Tbilisi International Young Pianists competition in Tbilisi, Georgia in 2005 where she won First Prize and a Special Prize as "Best Pianist in the Competition."
The Verbier Festival Academy in Verbier, Switzerland at which Fedorova became a recipient of the Verbier Festival Academy Award. Fedorova is one of the Academy's Musicians for 2017.
Violon sur la sable Festival.
Orchestras with which Fedorova has performed
Fedorova has performed with orchestras around the world including the following:

The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in the Bournemouth Pavilion in Bournemouth, England. After Fedorova's 2016 concert, Jade Grassby, the multimedia reporter for the Bournemouth Echo wrote that the limelight moved "temporarily away from the orchestra and onto" Fedorova, as she played Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto Number 2. She "delivered a beautiful performance, combining delicacy and passion and every phrase."
The Dallas Symphony Orchestra in Dallas, Texas, US.
The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Jaap van Zweden in Hong Kong. On April 15–16, 2016, Fedorova played Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto no. 2 with the orchestra conducted by Jun Märkl.
The Kyoto Symphony Orchestra in Kyoto, Japan.
The Krakow Philharmonic Orchestra in Krakow, Poland.
The Orquesta Filarmónica de Buenos Aires in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
The Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne in Lausanne, Switzerland.
The Residentie Orkest and the Camerata in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
The Residentie Orchestra in the Hague, the Netherlands.
The Tokyo New City Orchestra in Japan.
The Philharmonia of the Nations in Germany.
The Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie in Germany.
The Orquesta Sinfonica Nacional de Mexico in Mexico.
The Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra in the Netherlands.
The Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie in Herford, Germany.
The Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne in the Netherlands.
The Orquesta Filarmónica de la UNAM OFUNAM in Mexico City, Mexico.
Buenos Aires Philharmonic Orchestra (Orquestra Filarmonica de Buenos Aires) in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
The Orquesta Sinfonica Nacional de Mexico in Mexico.
The Nottingham Philharmonic Orchestra in a 2016 concert at Albert Hall in London, England. About the concert, William Ruff, music critic for the Nottingham Post wrote "Soloist Anna Fedorova relished the work's sophistication and opportunities for bravura display. The opening movement exploded in a fireburst of energy and its castanet-accompanied march was handled with wittily pointed humour. Her characterisation of each of the slow movement's variations was sharply perceptive - and her high-octane handling of the finale was another display of pianistic fireworks." William Ruff, Nottingham Post (October 16, 2016) about Anna Fedorova's performance with the concert at Albert Hall.
The Polish Camerata in Lodz, Poland.
The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London, England.
The Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra.
The Xalapa Symphony Orchestra in Mexico.