PIANISTS 2009

 

 

 

 

 

Anna Shelest made her international debut at age of eleven at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris as the youngest prize winner of the Milosz Magin International Piano Competition. At the age of twelve, Anna appeared with the Kharkiv Symphony Orchestra, playing Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 1. Since then she has been a soloist with some of the world’s most renowned orchestras such as the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, and the Netherlands Symphony Orchestra among others. She made her Carnegie Hall Debut in 2009, as part of the annual ABC Gala Concert at Weill Recital Hall.
Ms. Shelest won top prizes at international piano competitions such as the Louisiana International Piano Competition, the Third Netherlands International Piano Competition for Young Musicians, the Corpus Christi International Competition for Piano and Strings and the Ludmila-Knezkova Hussey International Piano Competition among others. Her discography includes an all-Rachmaninoff CD featuring Étude-Tableau op. 39 and Moments musicaux op. 16, as well as a collaborative recording, “Beyond Oblivion”, featuring music for trombone and piano with Cristian Ganicenco, principal trombonist of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.