Anita May

The Colombian-Russian origin pianist, Anna Voitsekhovskaia is a musician, professional pianist and cultural manager. Graduated from the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, with a master's degree from Yonsei, Seoul, she currently pursues a doctoral program at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. 

Among her performances as a soloist stand out those with symphony orchestras in Russia (The Gnessin Virtuosi "Gnessinskie virtuozy") and Colombia (Orquesta Sinfónica Institucional del Conservatorio de Ibagué, Orquesta Juvenil Batuta Meta). She also participated in different chamber ensembles, and performed concerts as a soloist in the most prestigious halls of Moscow, such as the Great Hall, the Small Hall and the Rachmaninoff Hall of the P.I.Tchaikovsky Conservatory, the Great Hall of the Musical Academy "Gnessin", the Great Hall of the House of Music.

She has participated in workshops and music festivals such as Allegro Vivo Festival (Austria), Espressivo Festival (Montenegro) and Beethoven Festival (Russia). She was a member of the Belcanto Artistic Foundation in Moscow as part of the saxophone-piano duet with Yuri Tashtamirov.

In February 2016 she won the special prize "Jean-Baptiste Lully Conservatoire" at the international piano competition (15th edition) "Piano Campus" in Paris, France. In August of the same year won the prize of the international piano competition "Rosario Marciano" in Vienna (8th edition) where she also received the special prize for the interpretation of the music of Russian composers and was recommended as a participant in the international piano competition "San-Jose 2017" where she won the gold medal and the first prize (USA). 

In February 2018 she was the winner of the special prize of the Los Angeles Piano Competition. In April of the same year she won the first prize at the Teresa Llacuna Competition in Valence, France. In July 2018 she was invited to the Beethoven and Schumann Academy by Kempff Foundation in Positano (Italy). In January 2019 she presented a solo concert at the Theatre de la Ville (Valence, France). 

Anita May actively participates in the music scene in Colombia promoting projects such as her Youtube channel with pedagogical content around classical music and piano technique; and the Anita May Cultural Foundation established in September 2023, where she has developed a series of events with the aim of promoting and deepening about art and music.