LYSENKO | Taras Bulba Overture
RAVEL | Piano Concerto in G Major (featuring Anna Sagalova)
DVORAK | Symphony No. 7
Anna Sagalova
Anna Sagalova is well-known Ukrainian pianist and an Honoured Artist of Ukraine. Anna studied with the People's Artist of Ukraine professor T.B. Vyerkina at the I.P. Kotlyarevsky National University of Arts in Kharkiv, and completed a postgraduate course with G. Otto at the University of Music Franz Liszt in Weimar (Germany). She also recently earned a Doctoral degree in Arts from the Kharkiv I.P.K. National University.
Anna participated in international piano masterclasses in Ukraine, Switzerland, China and France, where she attended 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).
Anna is an internationally recognized pianist and a laureate of many competitions in Italy, Ukraine, Bulgaria, and Germany. She frequently plays as a soloist with symphony orchestras throughout Ukraine under the baton of conductors from Ukraine, Canada, USA, Switzerland, Great Britain, Austria, etc.
Anna has given concerts at the state radio studio in Bern, the International Museum of the Red Cross in Geneva (Switzerland), Orpheum theater (Canada), the Bozendorfer Hall in Vienna (Austria), the House Museum of F. Liszt, the concert hall in Altenburg in Weimar (Germany), among others. She has taken part in a number of festivals, including the Days of Ukrainian Culture festival in Poznan (Poland), 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 chairman of the advisory department in the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine “Council of Young Scientists". She was also a member of the National Cоuncil on issues of cultural and art education under the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine. She took part in the creation of laws on higher artistic education: “On education” and “On scientific and technical activity”.
Anna is a jury member in several national and international music competitions 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.
Since 2022 she is teaching at Vancouver international school of music.
Anna’s concert activity in Canada is very intensive - there have been numerous concerts in Vancouver, Ottawa, Ladner, Surrey, Toronto, Halifax, Moncton, Parksville, Nanaimo, Abbotsford. Her aim is to help Ukraine and to popularize Ukrainian classical music.
Featured Soloist: Anna Sagalova
Conductors: Jin Zhang and Samuel Ivory