about

Praised for her “technical mastery and beauty of sound and execution,” Russian-American
pianist Anna Vasilyeva first drew international media attention in 2006 in Cremona, Italy,
when she performed at a concert commemorating the 150th anniversary of Robert Schumann.
Since then, Ms. Vasilyeva has appeared at renowned venues including Carnegie Hall, the
Bruno Walter Auditorium at Lincoln Center, Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Music Center,
Victor Borge Hall at Scandinavia House, and the DiMenna Center for Classical Music in
New York.
She has also performed at the Embassy of the Slovak Republic in Washington, D.C.; the Arts Club of Chicago; the Rimsky-Korsakov Grand Concert Hall in Saint- Petersburg, Russia; and Philippos Nakas Hall at the Athens Conservatory in Greece.

Ms. Vasilyeva has been featured as a guest pianist with the New York Philharmonic Ensembles at the Merkin Hall concert series at Lincoln Center, and as a guest solo Artist-in-Residence at the PianoPlus International Music Festival in Athens, Greece. For several years, she served as a collaborative pianist at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. In 2014, the American Federation of Musicians named Ms. Vasilyeva “a pianist
of extraordinary ability.”

An avid soloist and chamber musician, Ms. Vasilyeva has collaborated with internationally renowned artists including cellist Sharon Robinson of the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio, as well as pianists Monique Duphil, Peter Takács, and Warren Jones. She has also performed with the HELIX! Contemporary Ensemble at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. Ms. Vasilyeva has participated in masterclasses with distinguished musicians including Kirill Gerstein, Yoshigazu Nagai, Li Min Qiang, Dmitry Rachmanov, Victor Rosenbaum, Marilyn Horne, Martin Katz, and Margo Garrett, as well as members of the Juilliard, Cavani, and Emerson String Quartets.

Born in Saint Petersburg, Russia, Ms. Vasilyeva began studying piano at the age of five and gave her debut performance at age seven at the Sergei Rachmaninoff Children’s School for the Arts. She holds degrees in solo and collaborative piano performance from the Rimsky- Korsakov College of Music, Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Bowling Green State University, and the Cleveland Institute of Music.

Ms. Vasilyeva is a co-founder of Hudson Classical Music Studios in Manhattan and was recently appointed as a jury member for the annual Crescendo International Competition at Carnegie Hall.