Anna Dmytrenko, the Ukrainian-American pianist and piano teacher, has performed extensively at such renowned venues as Carnegie Hall, Kimmel Center of Performing Arts, Lincoln Center, Temple Emanu-El, Auditorium Gaber, Paris Philharmonie, Salle Cortot, Popejoy Hall, Hammer Theatre, and Teatro Sociale di Como, among others. She has a wide variety of solo and chamber repertoire and has collaborated on concerti with orchestras including Orquestra Simfonica del Valles, KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic, New Mexico Philharmonic, Bacau Philharmonic, Orchestre de Chambre de Paris (conducted from the keyboard), and conductors Ovidiu Balan, Daniel Boico, Ruben Gimeno Martinez, Roger Melone, and Roberto Minczuk.
Anna has won prizes in many international piano competitions including second prize, the Audience Choice Award and Best Contemporary Piece Prize at the first Olga Kern International Piano Competition, first prize at the Cantu International Piano Competition, third prize at the Ricard Viñes International Piano Competition, first prize at the Manhattan International Music Competition, and third prize at the New York International Piano Competition.
Anna studied at the Juilliard School Pre-College Division with Oxana Yablonskaya. She received her Bachelor’s degree with Regents Award from the Royal Academy of Music in London under the tutelage of Christopher Elton, followed by two Master’s degree programs in solo and chamber music performance at the University of the Arts in Berlin, Germany, where she studied with Pascal Devoyon. While in Germany, she gained experience as a private piano teacher.
She is now a teaching assistant at the Manhattan School of Music, where she is working on her Doctorate of Musical Arts with Olga Kern. She has taught group piano classes, as well as individual students of all levels and ages. In 2019, as part of a US tour, she also gave piano masterclasses in Santa Cruz, California. Anna loves sharing her knowledge with students and looks for creative and individualized approaches in her teaching.
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