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Anna Zassimova

The repertory and playing of pianist Anna Zassimova reflects the national and pedagogical strands of her artistic background. She is also a significant educator. Zassimova was born in Moscow, USSR, in 1976. Her father was a physicist, and her mother was a pianist. The family owned an old piano that had belonged to Zassimova's great-grandfather, and as a child, Zassimova tried to pick out tunes on it, imitating her mother. Noticing her interest, Zassimova's parents enrolled her in the Gneissin School, and she continued to study in Moscow for some years with such teachers as Ljudmila Roschina and Vladimir Tropp. She also studied art history for a time and believed that her studies in that field influenced her playing by allowing her to sense more of the artistic context in which a work arose; later, in Germany, she worked on interdisciplinary projects involving music and the fine arts. Amidst the tumult of the collapse of the Soviet Union, she came to think of the arts as a stable haven in a chaotic world. Earning a DAAD (German Foreign Exchange) scholarship, she attended the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe, studying with Markus Stange and Michael Uhde. She joined the faculty of that school in 2007 and continues to teach there. In 2009, Zassimova released her debut album, Vergessene Weisen, on the Zebralution label. She continued to record for that label in the 2010s but moved to CPO in 2010 for the album Georgy Catoire: Works for violin and piano. She wrote a doctoral dissertation about Catoire. Zassimova has frequently been active as a chamber music player. She has performed with the Silesian String Quartet in Poland, the Stanislas Quartet in France, the Minguet Quartett in Germany, and the contemporary music-oriented Phorminx Ensemble. As a soloist, she has appeared with the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra and the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra, among other groups. Solo recitals have taken her to the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg and to summer events, including the Ruhr Piano Festival, the Bloomsbury Festival in London, the Heidelberg Spring Music Festival, and Musica Viva in Munich. Her repertory includes German and Russian work from the Romantic era to contemporary times; many of the Russian composers she essays are little known in the West. Zassimova has made several more recordings, including Sonata Reminiscenza, issued by Hänssler Classic in 2018, and a recital of works by Chopin on the BIS label in 2023.
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