Anna Litvinenko is a Cuban-Ukrainian and Miami-raised cellist who captivates the attention of audiences with her presence and style. Her sound shows her strength and conviction but also reveals her more intimate sensibilities. She is currently based in The Netherlands, where she is engaged in diverse musical scenes ranging from solo, chamber music and early music to contemporary and improvised music. She has performed as a soloist with the Vienna Radio Symphonie-Orchester, the Odessa Philharmonic, the Miami Symphony, the New World Symphony, among many others. She has also made appearances as a solo and chamber musician in Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, Bozar, Carnegie Hall, and the Wigmore Hall and regularly gets invited to perform in festivals and concert series like the Arizona Friends of Chamber Music Series, Gaudeamus Festival, the International Festival of Krakow Composers, MOOT at the Brighton Fringe, and the Orlando Festival. Some recent highlights include Beethoven’s Triple Concerto at the Arte Solidale Festival and Seung-Won Oh’s Concerto for cello and voice with the Ensemble Academy.

After finishing her degrees at the Juilliard School with Joel Krosnick and London’s Royal College of Music with Richard Lester, Anna received a Fulbright Grant to study improvisation at the Koninklijk Conservatorium in The Hague, where she immersed herself in early music and the historical cello with Lucia Swarts. These past years, Anna has been performing with period ensembles like the Nederlandse Bachvereniging and the Orchestra of the 18th Century, and to a great extent with her piano trio Chekhov Trio.

Imagination is essential to Anna’s work, making her a spontaneous musician who dares to take risks. Improvisation and interdisciplinary work are of great importance to her and a source for inspiration. She has composed and performed for Nederlands Dans Theather’s Switch’20, worked under the direction of Bill T. Jones, and has produced multiple multimedia performances with visual arts and poetry with her trio Kalea, a group that improvises and composers through classical, folk and experimental music.

Anna is the recipient of Juilliard’s John Erskine Prize, KC’s Fock Medaille, Amsterdam Cello Biënnale’s Start in Splendor Prize, From the Top’s Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Award, and she is also a YoungArts winner and a 3rd Prize Laureate of the Sphinx Competition. Her studies were made possible by the generous support of the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, the Jerome L. Greene Foundation, RCM’s Rose Williams Scholarship, a Holland Scholarship and KC’s Excellence Scholarship.