Piano
Sunday November 20, 2011 at 2:30 pm
Anna Khanina
Programme
- Beethoven – Sonata Op. 110, No. 31 in A flat major
- Shostakovich – Prelude and Fugue in E minor
- Hindemith – Prelude and Fugue in E minor
- Schumann – Humoreske Op. 20
Bio
Anna Khanina- Piano
Anna Khanina has been praised for her “brilliant technique, musicality, and irreproachable taste.” (Ibbenbuehrener Zeitung). Professor Bernd Goetzke said: "In her performances, there is always the impression of radiating charisma, based on a deep understanding of the music, an absolutely sincere approach, and a true artistic motivation. She is totally in touch with the music that she is performing.”
Ms. Khanina regularly appears, as soloist and with chamber ensembles, throughout Europe, the United States, Canada, and Israel. She has performed at such venues as 92 Y, Kaufman Hall, Symphony Space, Staller Center for Arts, Trinity Church, Yamaha Piano Salon in New York, Dame Myra Hess Concert Series, Pianoforte Chicago, Ganz Hall at Roosevelt University, Georg Phillip Telemann Hall in Magdeburg, Muendener Schloss, Klavierhaus Doell, and Kanapee in Hannover, Germany. Her concerts have been broadcast live on WFMT Chicago (2007, 2010), The Voice of Music radio from Jerusalem Music Centre (2008), McGrow Young Artists Showcase WQXR New York (2011), and wiox.org (2011).
Next season engagements include tours in Israel and Germany, Roerich Museum in New York, Trail Mix concert series in Woodstock, Puffin Cultural Center in New Jersey, and Noble Arts in Pennsylvania among others.
Anna Khanina’s long list of awards includes prizes at Val Tidone International Piano Competition, the Second International Piano Competition in Panama, the Seventh International Competition Ciutat de Carlet, the Grieg Competition in Oslo, the Nueva Acropolis Competition in Madrid, and the Classica Nova Competition in Hannover.
Ms. Khanina is also a sought after chamber musician and collaborator. She has been invited to Braunschweig Classix Festival, Schleswig-Hollstein Music Festival, Hochschule fur Musik und Theater Hannover Chamber Music Festival, the Norfolk Festival, and Banff Music Centre. Before she moved to the United States, Ms. Khanina played in a duo with the clarinetist Yu-tzu Liu in Germany. The duo won a scholarship for the young artists, which gave them an opportunity to perform all over Germany. After Ms. Khanina came to Chicago in 2005, she formed a duo with the Israeli violinist Guy Figer and they performed internationally. Their debut CD is scheduled to come out in 2012. Recently she collaborated with Steven Doane, Frank Morelli, Alan Kay, Yura Lee, and Igor Begelman. As a strong advocate for new and contemporary compositions, she has had the privilege of premiering many new works and has worked with many composers.
Besides being a soloist and chamber musician, Anna Khanina regularly appears as an orchestra pianist. After playing for Michael Tilson Thomas in 2010, she was invited to join the New World Symphony Orchestra in Miami, Florida. However, she decided to pursue her career in New York. Since then, she regularly appears with the New World Symphony Orchestra under such conductors as Jeffrey Milarsky, Osmo Vänskä, John Adams, Stephan Deneve, and Ludovic Morlot.
Despite her busy performing career, Ms. Khanina remains a dedicated teacher. She has been a Teaching Assistant at SUNY Stony Brook and is currently on the faculty of the Piano School of New York, Frank and Camille’s Music School in Melville as well as Paul Nazzaro Music Studio in Westfield (NJ). Every year her students successfully participate at New York State School Music Association, Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, and the Royal Conservatory of Music examinations.
Anna started her musical education at the age of five, and in 1996 she graduated with honors from the famous Gnessin School of Music in Moscow for gifted children, where she studied with Lidia Grigorjeva. Upon her graduation, she immigrated to Germany, where she began studies with Professor Bernd Goetzke (former student of Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli) at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover. In 1999 she graduated from the Hochschule für Musik Magna cum Laude. In 2001 she earned a Master’s degree from the same institution, and subsequently went on to pursue an Artist Diploma in the Soloist-Class in 2001. At the same time, while pursuing her studies at the Hochschule für Musik, Anna simultaneously pursued a second Master’s degree in Performance at the Gnessin Academy of Music, where she again graduated with honors in 2004.
In 2007 she completed a Piano Performance Diploma at the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University, where she studied as a full-scholarship student of Solomon Mikowsky. Upon her graduation in 2007, Ms. Khanina was accepted into the Doctoral of Musical Arts Program at the State University of New York at Stony Brook as a full-scholarship student studying with Gilbert Kalish.
