Anna Vinnitskaya

Anna Vinnitskaya (Russian: Анна Валерьевна Винницкая; born 4 August 1983, in Novorossiysk) is a Russian pianist who won the 2007 Queen Elisabeth Music Competition.

On 2 June 2007, she won first prize in the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition in Brussels.

After a memorable Gaspard de la nuit (Ravel) in the first rounds, she impressed the audience and jury in the final round with Beethoven's Sonata No.13 in E flat "Quasi una fantasia", Op.

Vinnitskaya was only the second woman in the history of the competition for piano to win the first prize, after Ekaterina Novitskaya in 1968.

Anna Vinnitskaya was appointed professor of piano at her alma mater at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater, Hamburg, in 2009.