The First Prize won at the Queen Elisabeth Competition in 2007 launched Anna Vinnitskaya’s international career. Her performances with such top orchestras as the Berliner Philharmoniker, Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, Staatskapelle Dresden, Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, NHK Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and Boston Symphony Orchestra have been received with great enthusiasm worldwide. Her CD recordings have won awards such as the Diapason d’Or and Gramophone Editor’s Choice, and include a celebrated Chopin album, a Rachmaninov album with the Elbphilharmonie Orchestra and the album Piano Dances released in 2024. That same year, she was invited to co-curate the Flagey Piano Days. Recently, she has been artist in residence with the Dresden Philharmonic at the invitation of Marek Janowski, the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne and the Brussels Centre for Fine Arts. Anna Vinnitskaya studied under Evgeni Koroliov at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg, where she herself has been a professor since 2009.