Anna sagalova, piano
April 12, 2023

Anna Sagalova is a well known Ukrainian pianist. She is an Honored Artist of Ukraine, Doctor of Arts and Associate Professor at Kharkiv I.P. Kotlyarevsky National University of Arts and completed also a postgraduate course with G. Otto at the University of Music Franz Liszt in  Weimar (Germany).

Anna participated in the international piano masterclasses in Ukraine, Switzerland, China and France, classes of the professors K. Steinegger, P. Soubleau (Switzerland), E. Skovorodnykov (Ukraine-Canada), N. Shtarkman (Russia), K. Hellwig, G. Rosenberg, E. Haase, M. Dorrit, G. Otto (Germany), V. Zuponchich (USA), L. Knezhkova-Hassi, (Canada), K. Zera, P. Yansen (France), B. Sokolai (Hungary), Xiao Zong (China) were attended.

Anna is an internationally recognized artist and a laureate of many musical contests in Italy, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Canada and Germany. She frequently plays as a soloist with symphony orchestras throughout Ukraine under the baton of conductors from Ukraine, USA, Switzerland, Great Britain, Austria, etc.

Anna has given concerts in the Bern state radio, the International Museum of the Red Cross in Geneva, the Bösendorfer Hall in Vienna, the House Museum of F. Liszt, the concert hall in Altenburg in Weimar (Germany) and others.

She has taken part in a number of festivals, including the Days of Ukrainian Culture festival in Poznan (Poland), Music festivals in Vigo (Spain), Trier (Germany), the International Music Festival in Lubostron (Poland), the International festival of chamber music in Shanghai (China), Kiev-Music-Fest  (Ukraine), and Kharkiv Assemblies (Ukraine). Her performances have been broadcasted on radio and television. She has recorded two compact discs.

In 2016 Anna was elected as a chairman of the Advisory Department in the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine “Council of Young Scientists". She is also a member of the National Cultural and Art Education Cоuncil under the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine. She took part in higher artistic educational curriculum.

Anna is the Artistic Director of the International musical art contes Kharkiv Assembles, co-founder of the project Music Against Cancer,  and a producer of multiple events and concerts. She is a jury member in several national and international music contests in Ukraine. Anna gives piano master-classes in Ukraine, Spain and the UK. Among her students and graduates are winners of all-Ukrainian and international music competitions.


This recital is generously sponsored by VWMS members Susan Wong Lim.


Programme
anna sagalova, piano

3 Songs Mykola Lysenko
Eulogy(1842-1912)
Song without Words
Barcarolle
2 Etudes in the form of Old Dances, from Op. 19 Victor Kosenko
(1896-1938)
PartitaMark Karmynsky
(1930-1995)
OstinatoVladimir Ptushkin
(1949-2022)
Petite Suite Ukrainenne S. Yushkevitch
(b. 1953)
ValseM. Skoryk
Melody(1938-2020)