Pianist Anna Schreider was born on April 25, 1989 in Moscow and started learning music at the age of five at the Moscow Gnessin Music School. Later she continued her music studies at the Academic Music Conservatory College and Gnessin Russian Academy of Music, where she completed her undergraduate studies in 2014 and then postgraduate in 2016 with first class honours, studying under Alexander Kobrin and then Pavel Dombrovsky.

In 2017 Anna won the Sidney Kenneth Brindle Award and the Sara Krein Scholarship to study at the Royal Academy of Music in London, and graduated in 2019 with a Master of Arts degree.

Anna is a laureate of many International competitions, including: the UK (3rd prize winner at the International Music Competition, London), Italy (1st prize winner in both solo and ensemble categories, Don Vincenzo VittiInternational Competition, Castellana Grotte) and Portugal (1st prize winner in both solo and ensemble categories, 21 Century Art International Music Competition, Funchal, Madeira). Anna is also a Laureate of the very prestigious President’s Prize in Russia.

Anna performs regularly in Russia and abroad, having previously appeared at St Martin-in-the-Fields both as a soloist and ensemblist.

Anna is a keen chamber musician with a large cello, flute and vocal repertoire and has worked as an accompanist in the cello and conducting classes at the Gnessin Academy of music, and has accompanied violinists in Gyorgy Pauk’s violin class at the Royal Academy of Music. She regularly performs in a piano duo ensemble with her former Gnessin Academy chamber music professor, Elena Bagrova.

Anna is currently teaching piano performance at the Letovo school for gifted children in Moscow, Russia.