Anna Geniushene
Supported by Club 32 donors Greeba Pritchard and Robert Mitchell

Anna Geniushene earned her Bachelor’s degree from the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory. In 2018 she completed a Master of Arts with Distinction and an Advanced Diploma at London’s Royal Academy of Music, studying piano under Professor Christopher Elton.

Anna has also taken part in masterclasses with Ferenc Rados, Kirill Gerstein, Rita Wagner, Stephen Hough, Paul Lewis, Imogen Cooper, Pascal Rogé and Steven Osborne.Her solo and chamber music performances have taken her to such major concert halls as the Great Hall of Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory, the Konzerthaus ‘Neue Welt’ and Chamber Hall of the Berliner Philharmonie, the Salle Cortot in Paris and Wigmore Hall in London.

A keen chamber musician, Anna has a piano duo with her husband, Lukas Geniušas, and a close collaboration with the Quartetto di Cremona. She also directs an annual festival in collaborative music-making, NikoFestCollection, in Moscow.

SEMI FINAL PROGRAM THEME

My choice of programme is based on an exploration of dualities of characters: although Schumann’s op.111 is not a very popular set of pieces, it is composed with the characters Florestan and Eusebius in mind. “Vers Le flamme” is not so personal message althoughit also depicts the cold surreal world from the beginning and finishing with a bursting tongues of flames. Tchaikovsky’s Grande Sonata is a reflection and arduous argumentative dialogue between two antipodes of a character: inward and outward. As for me this piece is representing two different worlds of Tchaikovsky himself being known as a very bright person in the friend’s circle but having an affectation for being alone and keeping his real personality in a secret.