Anna Kravtchenko
{{Short description|Italian-Ukrainian concert pianist (born 1976)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2014}}
{{Infobox person
| nationality = Italian
| occupation = Pianist
- {{lang|it|Accademia Pianistica Internazionale}}, Imola, Italy
}}
Anna Kravtchenko is an Italian classical pianist. She won the Busoni competition in 1992 and has been a piano Professor al the {{lang|it|Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana}} in Lugano since 2013.
Early life
Kravtchenko began learning piano at age five; she recalls "the great joy of being able to construct a phrase in a certain way and discovering unique sounds".{{cite web|url=http://www.webconcerthall.com/interview/kravtchenko.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070812065502/http://www.webconcerthall.com/interview/kravtchenko.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=12 August 2007 |title=Interview with Anna Kravtchenko / The Winner of 2006 International Web Concert Hall Competition |publisher=Web Concert Hall |accessdate=17 July 2014 }} She studied in Italy at the {{lang|it|Accademia Pianistica Internazionale}} in Imola.{{cite web| url = http://www.accademiapianistica.org/it/sezione_didattica/docenti/8-ANNA_KRAVTCHENKO__pianoforte/| title = Anna Kravtchenko – Pianoforte| publisher = Accademia Pianistica Internazionale| language = Italian| accessdate = 18 July 2014| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140718224057/http://www.accademiapianistica.org/it/sezione_didattica/docenti/8-ANNA_KRAVTCHENKO__pianoforte/| archive-date = 18 July 2014| url-status = dead}}{{cite web| url = http://www.conservatorio.ch/sum/docenti/kravtchenko.html| title = Anna Kravtchenko| publisher = Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana| language = Italian| accessdate = 18 July 2014| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140718224304/http://www.conservatorio.ch/sum/docenti/kravtchenko.html| archive-date = 18 July 2014| url-status = dead}}{{cite web| last = Margarius| first = Leonid| url = http://www.margarius.com/their-llfes.html| title = Anna Kravtchenko| accessdate = 18 July 2014| archive-date = 12 November 2017| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171112190803/http://www.margarius.com/their-llfes.html| url-status = dead}}
Career
In 1991, she won first prize at the international competition {{lang|it|Concertino di Praga}}. A year later, at age 16, she won the Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition, which had not given its First Prize to any pianist for five years. She since had an international concert career, and recorded works by Frédéric Chopin and Franz Liszt for Decca.
Kravtchenko performed at the Concertgebouw of Amsterdam, Musikverein Golden Hall in Vienna, Herculesshall in Munich, with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Bayerische Rundfunk Orchestra, London Simphony Orchestra, to name few. Geoffrey Norris of The Telegraph said she played it "in a way that thoroughly warmed the heart and thrilled the senses", and explained:
{{blockquote|She incorporated Chopin's decorative writing into a vision of the concerto that had cohesion, vitality and fluency. The poetic reverie of the slow movement was set against the glistening roulades of the outer ones in a performance that, with justification, showed complete confidence in what it wanted to say, and knew how to express it eloquently.{{cite news| last = Norris| first = Geoffrey| url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/4721118/Joyful-piano-playing-to-warm-the-heart-and-thrill-the-senses.html | title = Joyful piano playing to warm the heart and thrill the senses| newspaper = The Telegraph| date = 17 January 2001}}}}
Kravtchenko won the International Web Concert Hall Competition in 2006. Since 2013, she has taught piano at the {{lang|it|Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana}} in Lugano, in the Italian-speaking Swiss canton of Ticino.
References
{{Reflist|30em}}
External links
- {{AllMusic|id=mn0001724284}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20120210100745/http://www.culturaspettacolovenezia.it/index.php?iddoc=1568 Cultura e spettacolo del Comune di Venezia]
- [http://www.concorsobusoni.it/it-50-1054.aspx?CMS_IDN=1240 Fondazione Concorso Pianistico Internazionale Ferruccio Busoni]{{dead link|date=July 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
- [https://archive.today/20130218152640/http://www.universalmusic.it/classica/album/?ida=612142&PHPSESSID=21e6c09cf30481ce1ae48376562efd8f Universal Music]
{{Authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kravtchenko, Anna}}
Category:Prize-winners of the Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition
Category:Italian women classical pianists