7 November from 9am to 2pm & 8 November from 9am to 5pm.

Biography
 
Born into a family of artists, Anna Kandinskaja began playing the violin at an early age. She went on to study at the conservatories of Moscow and Berne, before completing her postgraduate studies at the Royal College of Music in London.
 
Her musical career has been marked by several successes in international competitions. She was awarded first prize in the Munich Konzertgesellschaft International Violin Competition and won the Yehudi Menuhin International Competition in Paris. Following these successes, Anna Kandinskaja had the privilege of working regularly with Lord Menuhin and touring throughout Europe under his direction.
 
Anna Kandinskaja has appeared as soloist with many orchestras, including the St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. She has performed at the Wigmore Hall, the Barbican, the Münchener Philharmonie am Gasteig, the Münchener Residenz, the St Petersburg Philharmonie, the Zurich Tonhalle, the Vienna Musikverein and the Wiener Konzerthaus.
Among international music festivals, she has been invited to the Schleswig-Holstein Festival, the Tivoli in Copenhagen, Bad Kissingen, the Santander Festival, the Haydn Festival in Eisenstadt, the Oleg Kagan International Festival in Tegernsee, the Stars of the White Nights Festival in St Petersburg as soloist and in recital, as well as the Mikkeli Festival in Finland, the Elba Music Festival in Italy and the Mozartwochen Festival in Salzburg.
At the invitation of Gidon Kremer, Anna Kandinskaja performed at the Lockenhaus Festival and toured in subsequent years as artistic guest of the Kremerata Baltica.
Anna Kandinskaja has performed chamber music with partners such as András Schiff, Gidon Kremer, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Natalia Gutman, Boris Pergamenschikow, Yuri Bashmet, Lars Vogt, Mikhail Rudy, Miklos Perenji, Alexander Rudin, Nabuko Imai and the Altenberg Trio.

Anna Kandinskaja has been teaching violin at the University of Music and Dramatic Arts in Vienna for many years, having trained several finalists in major international competitions and musicians occupying leading positions in some of Europe's leading orchestras. She teaches violin at masterclasses in Europe and all over the world, including Asia, where she is regularly invited to teach in the metropolises of Japan, South Korea and Malaysia, and is a member of several violin and chamber music competition juries, such as the Lipizer, Jampolsky and Brahms competitions.  
 
Since 2012, she has run her own solo violin class at the Joseph Haydn-Konservatorium Eisenstadt.  
Many of her current and former students hold leading positions in prestigious orchestras and are winners of international competitions around the world.
 
Anna Kandinskaja is Primaria of the Vienna-based Razumovsky-Stringquartet.

Tatiana Samouil, coordination

Active participants: student violinists / as listeners: open to all students