Anna Skryleva - the winner of the prestigious Opus Klassik Award 2024
- conductor, composer, pianist and synaesthete - has made a name for herself on the international stage in recent years.
The cosmopolitan began playing the piano as a child and composed her first piece at the age of eight. Since then, as a composing conductor, she has been committed to pushing the boundaries of the
traditional with creativity, prudence and depth: "For me, the primary goal is to be able to perform theatre and art on an equal footing with reality."
As a composing conductor she is passionately dedicated to expanding the orchestral and opera repertoire. Her rediscovery
and world premiere of Eugene Engtel's opera "Grete Minde" in 2022 caused an international sensation and is considered a discovery of the century. During her tenure as a General Music Director at the
Theater Magdeburg (2019-2025), numerous successful projects were realized, earning her international recognition: the Special Prize "Innovative Orchestra 2019" from the German Orchestra Foundation
for her concert programming. 2022 the production of Eugen Engel's "Grete Minde" were nominated for the International Opera Awards. 2024 the Magdeburg Philharmonic and Anna Skryleva won the prestigious Opus Klassik Award 2024 for the World Premiere Recording of "Grete Minde" and was nominated for the Best
Opera Recording by Opus Klassik Award 2024.
As a conductor, her training has taken her through the classic stages of a general music director: from solo pianist to
positions as a repetiteur, assistant and conductor, with mentors including Simone Young and Julia Jones, as well as the Institute for Women Conductors at the Dallas Opera (USA).
Anna Skryleva regularly works as a guest at renowned opera houses and with outstanding orchestras, including the the Royal
Swedish Opera, the Dallas Opera, the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, the Frankfurt Radio Symphony orchestra, the Copenhagen Phil and the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin. in 2025 and 2026 she will
debut at Teatro alla Scala and the Sydeny Opera House.
The conductor also works closely with international soloists and singers such as Andreas Schager, Camilla Nylund and Vida
Miknevičute, violinist Arabella Steinbacher, pianists Lucas & Arthur Jussen and horn player Felix Klieser.
Anna Skryleva's versatile repertoire spans the Viennese classical era of Mozart and Beethoven, German and Russian
Romanticism from Tchaikovsky to Wagner and Strauss, as well as Italian masters such as Verdi and Puccini. As a conductor, she also pays special attention to the music of the 20th century with focus
on Britten, Shostakovitch and Prokofiev, as well as contemporary music. In close collaboration with composers such as Master of the King's Music errollyn Wallen, Lera Auerbach and Konstantia Gourzi,
Anna Skryleva continues to create groundbreaking projects.
Since she was accepted into the composition class at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory at the age of only ten, Anna
Skryleva has worked steadily as a composer; her works are published by Universal Edition Vienna. She has created several opera and orchestral arrangements for the theatres in Magdeburg and
Winterthur, including Mozart's "La clemenza di Tito" and Wagner's prelude to the opera "Lohengrin". in 2023, "Lullaby" was created for two voices and orchestra, which had its world premiere in
Magdeburg. Two further premieres took part in May and June 2024: "3 Impromptus in C" in the orchestral version with the Augsburg Philharmonic Orchestra and "Mirror" for soprano and orchestra
with the Magdeburg Philharmonic Orchestra. "Mirror" is based on the "Solresol" language, in which each musical motif is assigned a specific word. The work is based on a poem that Skryleva wrote in
2021 - in her composition, the music is triggered and shaped by words.
In October 2025, the world premiere of "Scherzo for Horn and Orchestra" will take place, a work composed by Skryleva for
the renowned horn played Felix Klieser, which will be part of a concert for horn and orchestra.
Anna Skryleva is not only committed to music, but also to society: in 2014, she founded the international peace initiative
"CLASSIC FOR PEACE" (CFP), with which the versatile artist aims to promote international understanding through classical music.
Anna Skryleva and her family live in Berlin.
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