Anna Tsybuleva
Anna Tsybuleva (also Tcybuleva; born 12 August 1990[1]) is a Russian classical pianist. She won the Leeds International Piano Competition in 2015. As of 2022, she has released two recordings, including a performance of the Brahms Piano Concerto no. 2 with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin.
Early life and education
Tsybuleva was born in 1990.
Career and awards
Tsybuleva has won several Russian piano competitions including the Russian National Piano Competition at
She has performed internationally with orchestras including the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and The Hallé, as well as with Russian orchestras including the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra.[2]
Critical reception
The British conductor, Mark Elder, called Tsybuleva "a truly exciting winner" of the Leeds competition.[5] The Guardian's music critic, Andrew Clements, considered that her "success certainly raised a few eyebrows" and criticised her performance of Brahms's Piano Concerto no. 2, writing that "for all the fluency of her playing, she often seemed incapable of seeing the overall shape of the work, and her role in projecting it, rather than the detail of each passing moment."[6] Erica Worth, editor of the magazine Pianist, considered her performance failed to deliver the "warmth, gravitas, a certain humility, a feeling that one has lived, not to mention a velvety rich tone and utter command over the keyboard" that the concerto requires.[7] The BBC Radio 3 commentator, Lucy Parham, praised her "mature, elegant and communicative reading of this hugely demanding work".[8]
Murray Mclachlan, writing in the International Piano magazine, described her as a "born performer" with "unquestionable qualities as an artist"; he considered that her performance of the Brahms concerto "perhaps lacked gravitas" but added: "there was no doubt that she was thoroughly enjoying every minute. The work was taken by the scruff of the neck and executed with energetic elan, bravura and heart-on-sleeve communication." Mclachlan also praised "her spellbinding, exquisite sounds" in performing
Commenting on a 2016 recital, the British pianist, Peter Donohoe, called Tsybuleva "one of the very finest young musicians of her generation". He commented on her "unerring sense of breathing and space and an instinct for tempo-appropriatenes in relation to her approach to sound and phrase", and praised the "imagination and integrity" of her interpretations of Schumann's Etudes Symphoniques and Prokofiev's 10 pieces Op 12.[10]
In a
Recordings
Tsybuleva's debut recording of fantasies by
In 2021, Tsybuleva released a recording of Brahms' second piano concerto; Huntley Dent, in a review for Fanfare, notes a lack of power compared with some male pianists, but praised the "unflagging momentum and powerful technique" of the Scherzo, the "poetry" of the faster-than-usually paced Andante, and the "especially animated reading filled with brio" of the finale.[14] Donald R. Vroon, in a more-critical review for the American Record Guide, states that her playing lacked "weight and grandeur" and was instead "almost French and delicate".[15]
Discography
Year | Title | Composer | Record company | Reference | Other performers |
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2017 | Fantasie in F sharp minor, H.300 Phantasie, Op.77 Fantasy in C major Wanderer-Fantasie, D.760 Fantasien, Op.116[12][13] |
C. P. E Bach Beethoven Schubert Brahms |
Champs Hill Records | CHRCD131[16] | |
2021 | Piano Concerto No. 2 Capriccios: in F♯ minor, op. 76/1; in B minor, op. 76/2; in C, op. 76/8 |
Brahms
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Signum Records | Signum 674 | Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, conducted by Ruth Reinhardt |
References
- ^ a b c d e Anna Tsybuleva piano - Monday 13 March 2017 19:30, Ripon Cathedral Concerts Society, retrieved 31 December 2016
- ^ a b c d e Anna Tsybuleva, Leeds International Piano Competition, retrieved 31 December 2016
- ^ a b Frances Wilson (21 April 2016), "Meet the Artist…….Anna Tsybuleva, pianist", The Cross-Eyed Pianist, retrieved 31 December 2016
- ^ Hamamatsu International Piano Competition – Prizewinners' Concert, medici.tv, 2012, retrieved 31 December 2016
- ^ a b Anna Tsybuleva wins top prize at Leeds International Piano Competition 2015, Leeds International Piano Competition, 2015, archived from the original on 18 May 2016, retrieved 31 December 2016
- ^ a b Andrew Clements (14 September 2016), "Leeds International Piano competition final – first prize for Anna Tcybuleva, not the obvious choice", The Guardian, retrieved 31 December 2016
- ^ Anna Tcybuleva wins Leeds International Piano Competition, BBC News, 14 September 2016, retrieved 31 December 2016
- ^ Lucy Parham (14 September 2015), "Leeds Piano Competition 2015: concerto final", Classical-music.com, retrieved 1 January 2017
- ^ Murray Mclachlan (26 November 2015), "Youthful Promise: Leeds International Piano Competition", International Piano
- ^ Peter Donohoe (13 October 2016), Peter Donohoe on Anna Tsybuleva, Leeds International Piano Competition, archived from the original on 4 January 2017, retrieved 31 December 2016
- ^ David Fanning (16 March 2018), "Anna Tsybuleva proves she's a fine artist in the making with Joshua Weilerstein and the RLPO, plus the best of March's classical concerts", The Daily Telegraph
- ^ a b Jed Distler (August 2017), "'Fantasien'", Gramophone, vol. 95, no. 1151, p. 64
- ^ Fanfare: The Magazine for Serious Record Collectors, vol. 41, no. 3, p. 494
- ^ Fanfare: The Magazine for Serious Record Collectors, vol. 45, no. 2, pp. 228–29
- ^ a b Donald R. Vroon (September–October 2021), "Brahms: Piano Concerto 2.", American Record Guide, vol. 84, no. 5, p. 39
- ^ Anna Tsybuleva: Fantasien, Champshill Records, retrieved 19 May 2018
- Fanfare: The Magazine for Serious Record Collectors, vol. 45, no. 2, pp. 229–30