Anna Fedorova
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Anna Fedorova is a Ukrainian
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...

 concert pianist
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Biography

Fedorova was born in Kiev
Kiev
Kiev or Kyiv is the capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River. The population as of the 2001 census was 2,611,300. However, higher numbers have been cited in the press....

, Ukraine
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...

, into a family of musicians, and she began playing the piano
Piano
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 at age five. She gave her first public recital when she was six, and her national debut was in 1997, at the National Philharmonic Society of Ukraine
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Fedorova has given concerts in various halls across Europe, North America, and South America, including performances at the Concertgebouw
Concertgebouw
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 in the Netherlands
Netherlands
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, the Palacio de Bellas Artes
Palacio de Bellas Artes
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 in Mexico
Mexico
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, and the Teatro Colón in Argentina
Argentina
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. She has won 14 international piano competitions, including First Prize at the International Rubinstein in Memoriam piano competition in Poland
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

, in 2009.

In 2008, she graduated from the Lysenko Musical College for Gifted Children. She is currently a student of Leonid Margarius at the Accademia Pianistica Incontri col Maestro in Imola
Imola
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, Italy
Italy
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