Biography
“Anna Heller amazes with her vision, desire and ability to break the mold of traditional classical music presentation”. June 21, 2016 Summer Issue, 2016. Vol. 2 Piano Performer Magazine
Anna Heller is a concert pianist and founder of a curated internet platform for new piano music between passion and serenity “Moving Classics TV” www.movingclassics.tv. She showcased compositions by over 500 leading and emerging contemporary composers with whom she is in direct contact. With her extensive repertoire and her outstanding talent for interpretation, she is one of the best-known pianists for new piano music.
“On the Internet TV channel Moving Classics TV, Anna Heller’s beautiful, convincing, precise, poetic and powerful piano playing elevates souls and hearts to heavenly ones in first-class, artistic videos Joy! “28.03.2018 Naji Hakim, composer, pianist and organist, successor to Olivier Messian
“The music … new music, played by Anna.
She bravely and generously showcases new composers, supports them as much as she can.
She also has a very creative approach to this mission of hers. Interviews, blogs, visual art mixed with musical.
There is beauty to be found here.
Musical beauty under Anna’s fingers, and her creation Moving Classics TV. ” Gaby Kapps, composer
„Soloist was a musically extraordinarily sensitive concert pianist Anna Heller, who has become better known for her advocacy of contemporary piano music and her imaginative interpretations. The Beethoven Piano Concerto Nr. 4 was a great challenge for her, but she mastered it perfectly, taking advantage of the freedom of musical shape to which the soloist was entitled. At the Karlsfeld performance under the direction of Bernhard Koch and Anna Heller at the piano, the music in its great intimacy and pronounced characteristic came in every respect “to speak”. „ https://www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/dachau/karlsfeld-konzert-sinfonieorchester-1.5560449
..pianist shines at the spring concert and emphasizes the importance of music
Entirely in her imaginative, own style, in three movements with lyrical tone and atmospheric density….
Dreaming and exploring something new are the leitmotifs of Anna Heller’s artistic creation . Still shaped by the traditional training of the Russian school, the pianist opened up to new developments early on in order to allow more space for the imagination in her playing. In the Munich Salon , which she founded, she combined music and literature in a theatrical form and the work and artistic influences of strong women such as Sappho, Lou Salomé, George Sand, Martha Gellhorn, Kathi Kobus, Madame Pompadour or Anais Nin processed. She started experimenting with music and light at an early age and, together with lighting designers, developed a concert performance under the name “Concerti Illumini” . In video clips her famous musical works were staged. Concerts, such as in the Herkulessaal in Munich with over 1000 listeners, but above all discussion concerts with 30 – 200 listeners in a wide variety of locations shape her artistic work. As a pianist of the modern generation, she is very present in social media . Over 30,000 visitors regularly see and hear your weekly recordings on Facebook, Youtube and Linkedin.
Anna Heller, born in Tomsk (Russia), received her first piano lessons from her mother when she was 5 years old. She studied piano and literature in Tomsk, Russia, with semesters abroad in Oklahoma – USA and Frankfurt am Main – Germany (two scholarships: The American Collegiate Consortium and DAAD). She received further artistic impulses from private studies and master classes with Michael Leslie, Volker Banfield, Ewa Kupiec, Matthias Kirschnereit and Marina Horak. Anna Heller lives in Munich, Germany.
Numerous successful appearances at events, weddings, exhibitions, conferences and symposiums in Germany, Austria, France and Switzerland; in Germany e.g. gala events of dental associations, Spirio piano presentations together with Steinway, Lanserhof classic series, Hotel Bareiss, Tertianum, Company events at Siemens, BMW, Allianz, Sparkasse
Appearances as a classical pianist in Germany, France, Austria, Romania, Russia and Switzerland, e.g. in Herkulessaal in Munich, Nymphenburg Palace concerts, Bruckner House in Lins (Austria), Kulturpalast Dresden etc. Ambiente piano concerts “Sunset Hour”, themed piano recitals “Aquarelle”, “Classic for the Senses”, “Blue Classics”, “Twilight Classics” etc
Candlelight Original Concerts (Einaudi, Coldplay, Abba, Elton John, Musicals, Adele etc)
Appearances with various symphonic orchestras such as et al. Patent Orchestra, Young Munich Symphony Orchestra, Karlsfeld Symphony Orchestra, SOMA etc. Schumann, Ravel, Beethoven No 4, Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue etc
Munich Classic Salon: 10 literary-musical salons
Founder of “Moving Classics TV” – curated Internet platform for new piano music “between passion and serenity” with over 530 composers and recordings on YouTube and 60,000 followers
https://www.evcmusic.com/anna-heller-interview-moving-classics-tv