Masterclasses

After finishing her studies at Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa with the maximum classification under the supervision of the pianist Tania Achot, and a master's degree in piano performance at Catholic University of Porto with Filipe Pinto Ribeiro, she continued her musical studies at Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel with Jan Michiels and in Madrid with Claudio Mehner. She obtained her PHD degree in 2015 with “Summa cum laude” at the Escola das Artes of the Catholic University Porto under the orientation of the pianist Sofia Lourenço and the composer Paulo Ferreira Lopes.

She won several national and international prizes, including “Maria Campina” and “Princess Lalla Meryem”, and performed as soloist with the Brussels Chamber Orchestra, as a prize of Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel Competition for students of all instruments. She has played, since 2006, in countries as France, the Netherlands, Sweden, Brazil and China, as well as in the main Portuguese festivals and concert halls, including Dias da Música, Sintra Festival, Oeiras Festival, Mafra Festival, Centro Cultural de Belém, Auditório Ruy de Carvalho, Centro Cultural de Cascais and Olga Cadaval Cultural Center, as soloist and with the leading Portuguese orchestras and conductors.

She is the author of the book "Schumann´s Carnaval: work of genius and madness" (based in her PhD dissertation and with a preface of Professor Mário de Vieira de Carvalho) and has recorded five CDs: "Waltz Transfigured" with works by Schubert and Schumann, “Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1" with Orquestra do Norte, "Encounter", with works by Mozart and Schumann, "Identity", with music by Debussy, Prokofiev and Liszt and most recent “Terra”, with works by Mussorgsky, Bartók, Albéniz.

Pianist of great originality, Teresa da Palma Pereira has been dedicated, in the last years, to a set of projects that aim to bring erudite music to new audiences, performing several cycles of commented recitals, as "Communication with music", "Classics outdoors", Classics for All" and " Classics in the Bookstore", at Fundação Portuguesa das Comunicações, Palace of the Aciprestes, in Linda-a-Velha, social quarters and the bookstore “Ler Devagar”, in Alcântara, respectively.

She´s also the Artistic Director of the Oeiras International Piano Festival since 2018.

From a very young age, Ukrainian pianist Anna Fedorova demonstrated innate musical maturity and incredible technical abilities. Her live recording of Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 has over 45 million views on YouTube and has been acclaimed by critics and world-renowned musicians. She performs regularly in the world's most prestigious concert halls, such as the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center in New York, the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, the Tonhalle Zurich, the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, the Bunka Kaikan in Tokyo, and the Barbican Centre and Royal Albert Hall in London.

As a soloist, Anna Fedorova has performed with many outstanding orchestras, including the Philharmonic Orchestra, the Verbier Festival Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic, the Tokyo Symphony, the Yomiuri Orchestra, the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra, the Utah Symphony, the Dallas Symphony, the Hong Kong Philharmonic, and the Netherlands Philharmonic, with conductors such as Daniel Harding, Vasily Petrenko, Gianandrea Noseda, Jaap van Zweden, and others. Dubbed the “house pianist” (Telegraaf) of the Concertgebouw, Anna Fedorova has given over 45 concerts at this prestigious concert hall in Amsterdam, often broadcast live. She is a regular guest at major music festivals, such as the Verbier and Menuhin Festivals in Switzerland, the Stift Music Festival in the Netherlands, the Sintra Festival in Portugal, and the Ravinia Festival in the USA. In July 2022, Anna performed with the Verbier Festival Orchestra under the baton of Gianandrea Noseda at the opening of the Verbier Festival. A week later, she made her debut at the La Roque d'Anthéron international piano festival with a solo recital, acclaimed by the local and international press.

On March 6, 2022, she was one of the first to start a charity concert to raise funds for the victims of the war in Ukraine, together with her musician friends, Interartists Amsterdam, and the Concertgebouw. Having raised over €100,000 on that first night, she has continued to perform in charity concerts for Ukraine ever since. During the summer of 2022, she was the solo pianist for the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra, performing under the baton of Keri-Lynn Wilson at the Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera, the Royal Albert Hall in London (BBC Proms televised concert), Munich, the Chorégies d'Orange, the Konzerthaus in Berlin, the Edinburgh Festival, Summer at Snape Maltings, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, Lincoln Center in New York (twice), and the Kennedy Center in Washington. The New York Times noted that “Pianist Anna Fedorova was a sensitive and poetic soloist in Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 2, a tribute to Polish support for the Freedom Orchestra project.”

In 2018, Anna Fedorova signed a contract with Channel Classics Records. By early 2023, she will have released three solo piano albums, four chamber music albums, and all of Rachmaninoff's Piano Concertos with the St. Gallen Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Modestas Pitrenas. BBC Music Magazine awarded a 5-star rating to her first album, featuring Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 1, Preludes, and Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. BBC Music Magazine also published a 5-star review of Anna Fedorova's interpretation of Rachmaninoff's Piano Concertos Nos. 2 and 4, noting that “the clarity of thought and feeling behind these interpretations of Rachmaninoff's concertos is truly refreshing: this is certainly not just another ‘Rach 2’.” It was Classic FM's Album of the Weekend, received a 10-star review from Luister Magazine, and became Album of the Week on Scala Radio upon its release in October 2022. Anna Fedorova, the Sinfonieorchester St. Gallen, and Modestas Pitrenas recorded Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3 in November 2022, which will complete their cycle of Rachmaninoff's Piano Concertos in May 2023, the year of the composer's 150th anniversary.

Anna Fedorova graduated from the Lysenko Music School in Kiev, where she studied with Borys Fedorov, and from the Accademia Pianistica in Imola, Italy, where she studied with Leonid Margarius. She obtained her Master's degree and Artist Diploma at the Royal College of Music in London under the guidance of Norma Fisher. Her mentors include Alfred Brendel, Menahem Pressler, Steven Isserlis, and Sir András Schiff.
In 2022, Anna Fedorova and double bassist Nicholas Santangelo Schwartz founded the Davidsbündler Music Academy in The Hague. Before the Academy's official opening in September 2022, the Davidsbündler Foundation had already begun offering high-quality music education to Ukrainian refugees who had fled to the Netherlands. The Foundation continues to do so in 2023 and offers full scholarships to talented young pianists and string players from low-income families, including 12 young Ukrainian pianists.