Anna Kuvaja

A versatile soloist, chamber musician and orchestral player, Finnish pianist Anna Kuvaja is also an active fortepianist and the owner of a small collection of instruments dating from different centuries. She is, furthermore, a sovereign performer of contemporary repertoire, appearing in the ranks of the Avanti! Chamber Orchestra, the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Uusinta and other ensembles. Anna has held recitals both at home and abroad, made a number of recordings for the Finnish Broadcasting Company (Yle) and appeared at many exciting festivals: the Mänttä, Crusell, BRQ Vantaa, Time of Music, and Silence, to mention just a few. Anna has taught piano, sight-reading for pianists at the Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki since 2010, first as a part time teacher and from 2022 on as an Art teacher. She has also held a course in performance practices 1750–1850 examining texts from the Age of Enlightenment and Romantic era and discussing light and shade in music. In 2016, Anna published her first solo album, Fluvial, on the Alba label. BBC Music Magazine awarded it five stars and described it as “a stunning debut disc... powerful Schubert”. In 2022 Alba released “Soiréestücke”, a chamber music album with the clarinettist Lauri Sallinen, which was also well-received. In 2024 she published an album "Bowen and Clarke sonatas for viola and piano with viola player Hanna Hohti, and she received a Grammy certificate with the Grammy winner CD "Saariaho: Reconnaissance". Anna has been the recipient of many grants, including a one-year artist’s grant from the National Council for Music for 2017. The Pro Musica Foundation, which issues grants without application, awarded her a grant for artistic work in 2021.

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