My biography

"My cello is a companion, lover, confidant, psychologist and mirror of the soul in one person," says cellist Gautier Capucon about his relationship with his instrument. Anna Skladannaya sums up her great passion more succinctly: "I am, so to speak, married to my cello."

 

Anna Skladannaya, born in 1996, is a Ukrainian-Russian cellist and composer who grew up in a family of musicians. Her mother Tatyana was a cellist, her father Oleg played the clarinet and her sister Sofia studied piano at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory.
At the age of 5, Anna received cello lessons from her mother and attended preparatory courses at the
Moscow Gnesin Special Music School. At the age of 11 she made her debut in the Great Hall of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory. Since 2010 she has been studying at the Special Music School at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory with Anatoly Lukyanenko.

In autumn 2013 she began her bachelor's degree in cello with Emil Rovner at the Dresden University of Music and Performing Arts and completed her master's degree with distinction in 2020. She also studied new music with Wolfgang Lessing and composition with Mark André.

She completed an international master's program in cooperation between Bern, Dresden and Salzburg in the field of new music with an artistic focus on cello with a grade of 1.0 in 2022. She is currently continuing her education at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg, where she is studying composition with Johannes Maria Staud.

Anna Skladannaya is a prizewinner of numerous international competitions. In 2023, she won a special prize at the Gran Premi Musical Lauredia in Andorra, a 1st prize at the 6th International Music Festival in Vienna and other first prizes in online competitions as a cello soloist. In 2024, she received a first prize for original composition at the International Debussy Music Competition for her work "Regret".

She completed an internship at the WDR Funkhausorchester in Cologne in 2019/2020 and was an academic at the Nuremberg State Philharmonic from 2020 to 2021. From 2019 to 2021 she was a member of the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie, where she participated in individual projects.

She attended master classes with, among others, David Geringas, Djovanni Sollima, Wen Sinn Yang, Asier Polo, Emil Rovner, Alexander Buzlov, Julius Berger, Dangilo Ishizaka, Peter Bruns, Maria Kliegel, Stephan Forck, Oliver Wenhold, Georgy Gusev, Hans-Christian Schweicker and Lucas Fels.

She began composing in 2017 when she wrote her own cadenza for Haydn's Cello Concerto No. 2 in D major. The fact that she successfully won an audition with it encouraged her to continue. In addition, her mother gave her special advice to put into music what was inside her and what needed to "come out". She can now boast numerous compositions of her own for cello solo, for two cellos, for cello and piano, for voice and piano and for small chamber music ensembles.

Since 2021 she has been teaching cello at the Fürth Music School. In addition to solo performances and as a duo with the pianist Alexey Petik, she is also often asked to premiere new music.

Your instrument comes from the estate of Peter Doß, a former solo cellist of the Dresden Philharmonic. It was created in the mid-1950s by the Dresden instrument maker Heinz Hammig.