Anna Sutyagina, Pianist
Germany, Munich
My approach to classical music:
Music is all about fantasy.
When we say the word fantasy, hardly anyone thinks of music. “You have a fantasy,” one says, when someone invents stories or paints interesting pictures or just dreams. Fantasy goes beyond limits, breaks the conventional forms, encourages new understanding and allows free improvisation. The word “fantasy” can also be interpreted as a play and fun. When we talk about music and playing the piano, it’s about the same categories, but in the abstract form.
I want to merge the different genres and disciplines: the tones become images, the sounds become cinematic scenes, great literature is combined with music, people may experience live music first hand in salons, the animals make music too, the philosophical quotations are fused with the most beautiful melodies … the imagination has no limits thanks to the magical power of music and piano playing.
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Anna Sutyagina, born in Tomsk (Russia), received her first piano lessons at the age of 5 from her mother. She studied piano and literature in Russia, with semesters abroad in Oklahoma (USA) and Frankfurt am Main (Germany). Sie got artistic inspiration through coaching and master classes with Volker Banfield, Ewa Kupiec, Matthias Kirschnereit and Marina Horak. Anna Sutyagina lives in Munich and is currently coached by Prof. Michael Leslie.
She performed Dmitri Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto no. 2 in F major at LMU Munich with the SOMA Orchestra under the baton of Andreas Pascal Heinzmann and Haydn’s Piano Concerto no. 11 in D major as well as Mozart’s Piano Concerto no. 23 in A major with the Munich Doctors’ Orchestra under the baton of Dr. Pöller. In June 2014, she played at the Richard Strauss Festival in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
In addition to her concert performances she is working as a freelance accompanist for singers and instrumentalists.
Anna Sutyagina sang in the Munich Bach Choir and the Munich Mottetenchor. She received her private singing lessons from Prof. Maria Cavazza (Musikhochschule München) and Prof. Otto Rastbichler (Mozarteum, Salzburg).
In 2009 Anna Sutyagina founded her music salon with the objective to combine various artistic disciplines under the theme “looking for old and new ideals of beauty.” Anna Sutyaginas Music Salon is held twice a year in the Steinway-House in Munich.
