About

For as long as I can remember I have been deeply passionate about music, especially the piano’s timbre and sound world. Born into a family of non-musicians, my first life-changing experience was the intense realisation that what I wanted to do in life was play the piano. Indeed, to this day I am still deeply inspired by the world of classical music and feel very privileged to be a small yet active part of this captivating musical universe.

To quote a well-known Greek saying: “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder”.
It means that beauty always has a unique individual interpretation and is a personal and subjective experience, rather than something tangible, fixed, or objective. I believe it is true about music as well. This is why one could say it is not the music itself that is full of emotions, feelings, and ideas but an individual: the one listening to it, the one composing it and the one playing it. I believe that this is the reason why live performances have such a tremendous effect on the public and this is also why I would like to spend a substantial part of my life playing for people.

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Anna Zaychenko was born in 1992 in Moscow and received her first piano lessons at the age of five. After attending the Moscow Chopin Children’s Music School she went on to graduate with distinction from the Moscow Chopin Music Colleague (class of Prof. Maxim Philipov) in 2011. Continuing her piano studies under the tutelage of Professor Maxim Philippov, Anna graduated in 2016 from the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory. Three years later she completed her Soloist’s Diploma with honours at the Hochschule Luzern- Musik (Switzerland).

Anna Zaychenko received further artistic inspiration from renowned pianists such as Menahem Pressler, Robert Levin, Andreas Staier, Joerg-Andreas Boetticher, Tatiana Zelikman, Vladimir Tropp and Aleksey Skavronsky.

Anna Zaychenko has given numerous solo recitals as well as chamber music concerts and performed in the major concert halls of Russia (Moscow, St. Petersburg, Krasnodar and Yaroslavl) as well as abroad in the Ukraine, Belarus, Latvia, Spain, Turkey, Israel and Switzerland. She has appeared as a concerto soloist with orchestras such as the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, the Argovia Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, the Pavel Slobodkin Moscow Chamber Orchestra, the Kuban Symphony Orchestra, the Quintet of Silesian Chamber Musicians and others. Conductors of these performances include Vladimir Ponkin, Vladimir Rizhaev (Russia), Giuseppe Monopoli (Italy), Marc Kissoczy (Switzerland) and James Gaffigan (USA).

Anna Zaychenko became prizewinner of various competitions:
Prizewinner of the Emanuel and Evamaria Schenk Foundation (2017)
2nd Prize at the 13ème Concours d'Interprétation Musicale de Lausanne (2015)
2nd Prize at the 2nd International Piano Competition «Luciano Luciani» in Italy (2012)
2nd prize at the XV. International Piano Competition «Mauro Paolo Monopoli Prize» in Italy (2012)
1st Prize at the Youth Piano Competition for Romantic Music in Russia, Moscow (2010)
1st prize at the 4th International Piano Competition «Russian Music» in Krasnodar (2010)
Special Prize at the 2nd International Competition «SpazioTeatro89» in Italy, Milan (2009)
1st prize in the International Competition «Art of XXI. Century » in Ukraine, Kiev (2005)

In addition, Anna Zaychenko is a recipient of the Presidential Russian Scholarship for talented young people (2010),
the Lyra Foundation (2013), the Swiss Federal Scholarship (2014) and of the Hella Siegrist-Prize (2013, 2016, 2017).