
Anna Komarova
In the orchestra since 2022
Anna Komarova was born in Abakan. She graduated from the Secondary Special Music School of the St. Petersburg State Conservatory and the St. Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory. She has been a member of the musicAeterna orchestra since 2022.
In 2013 she became the laureate of the Maestro Temirkanov Foundation. Since 2014 she has been a scholarship holder and a regular participant in concert programmes of the Gartow Stiftung.
She took part in the master classes by A. Magni, N. Mokhov, D. Lupachev, M. Demin, E. Yakovlev, S. Bubnov, N. Popov, A. Golyshev, S. Cherrier, E. Pahud, R. Ciani, C. Brunel, Pierre Yves Artaud, D. Buryakov, F. Renggli, D. Formisano, A. Lieberknecht, K. McCall.
Anna Komarova is the laureate of numerous All-Russian and international competitions, namely, she won the First Prize and the Grand Prix winner of the Art of the 21st Century International Competition (Vienna, 2012; Kiev, 2014), the International Competition in Stockholm (Sweden, 2017), the Grand Prix of the Karandashova Competition for Chamber Ensembles (St. Petersburg, 2018), the I All-Russian Competition for Symphony Orchestra Artists (Moscow, 2018), the Gnessin International Competition for Young Musicians (Moscow, 2020), the Second Prize of the III All-Russian Music Competition in the nomination “woodwind instruments quintet” (Moscow, 2020), the V Prize and Special Prize for the performance of a contemporary work of the X Kobe International Flute Competition (Japan, 2022), the Second Prize of the International Young Artist Flute Competition in Tampere (Finland, 2022).
She has performed with such musical ensembles of St. Petersburg as the
Russian Horn Orchestra, the Tavrichesky Symphony Orchestra, and the St. Petersburg Academic Symphony Orchestra. From 2013 to 2018 she worked as an artist of the Mariinsky Theatre Youth Orchestra. In 2018 she became the first soloist of the flute group of the Russian National Youth Symphony Orchestra. As part of the orchestra, she worked with such soloists and conductors as D. Matsuev, V. Gergiev, V. Fedoseyev, M. Yurovsky, M. Minkowski, P. Järvi, V. Petrenko, D. Petrenko. P. Herreweghe, J.-C. Spinosi, A. Netrebko, D. Trifonov, A. Ramm, P. Ferrández, P. Milyukov, V. Repin, M. Vengerov, D. Masleev, A. Lazarev, P. Zuckerman, S. Dogadin, and others.
musicAeterna orchestra events
Alexey Retinsky (b. 1986)
“Ty — likami tsvetov” [You Are in the Faces of the Flowers]
Mystery for Choir and Orchestra (2023, world premiere)
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873 – 1943)
Vespers for viola, tenor and mixed choir, Op. 37 (1915)
The musicAeterna Choir
Conductor – Teodor Currentzis
Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840–1893)
Francesca da Rimini,
Symphonic Fantasy after Dante, Op. 32 (1876)
Capriccio Italien
on folk tunes for orchestra, Op. 45 (1880)
Romeo and Juliet,
Overture-Fantasy after Shakespeare, TH 42 (1869–1880)
musicAeterna Orchestra
Conductor — Teodor Currentzis
Richard Wagner (1813 – 1883)
Overture to the opera Parsifal (1882)
Overture to the opera Tannhäuser (1843 – 1845)
Vorspiel und Liebestod from the opera Tristan und Isolde (1857 – 1859)
Overture to the opera Lohengrin (1845 – 1848)
Overture to the opera Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (1868)
soprano Elena Popovskaya
musicAeterna Orchestra
Conductor Teodor Currentzis
Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840–1893)
Francesca da Rimini,
Symphonic Fantasy after Dante, Op. 32 (1876)
Capriccio Italien
on folk tunes for orchestra, Op. 45 (1880)
Romeo and Juliet,
Overture-Fantasy after Shakespeare, TH 42 (1869–1880)
musicAeterna Orchestra
Conductor — Teodor Currentzis
Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840–1893)
String sextet “Souvenir de Florence”, D minor, Op. 70 (1890, 1892)
Arvo Pärt (b. 1935)
Fratres (1977)
solo violin – Olga Volkova
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975)
Chamber Symphony (String Quartet No. 8 in C minor, arranged for chamber orchestra by Rudolf Barshai, Op. 110a, 1967)
Gia Kancheli (1935 – 2019)
“A Little Daneliad” for violin, piano, percussion (ad libitum), and string orchestra (2000)