Conductor Anna Skryleva, music director of Theater Magdeburg since the 2019/2020 season, is one of the most fascinating artistic personalities of the new generation. Her award-winning work to enlarge the classical repertoire has caused international attention.
In 2019 Anna Skryleva was awarded the Orchestra Innovation Prize by the German National Orchestras Foundation for her work with the Magdeburg Philharmonic Orchestra.
Her discovery of the German-Jewish composer Eugen Engel and his opera "Grete Minde" ensured international success in February 2022 and was nominated for the International Opera Awards 2022 as the best World Premiere.
Recent engagements have brought Anna Skryleva to opera companies across Europe and North America, such as the Royal Opera Stockholm, the Hamburg Staatsoper, and the operas of Wiesbaden and Leipzig.
Skryleva's wide operatic repertoire ranges from the Viennese classics through to German and Russian Romantics, the Italian bel canto school, and staple works of the twentieth century and beyond. She has conducted works by composers from Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss to Benjamin Britten, from Mozart to John Adams.
An internationally renowned conductor also in the symphonic repertoire, Anna Skryleva has led concerts with esteemed orchestras such as the Copenhagen Philharmonic, Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Deutsches Symphony Orchestra Berlin, Beethoven Orchester Bonn, and Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra among others.
Anna Skryleva is a rising very promising composer. Her version for the reduced orchestra of Mozart's "La Clemenza di Tito", successfully performed at Theater Magdeburg in September 2020 under the direction of Dietrich Hilsdorf, is now on sale by the renowned Mozart's publisher Bärenreiter.
Skryleva's compositions "Impromptus in C" were recognized by several Festivals: "The Solen Music Festival" and "Klang Art Vision".
Today a resident of the vibrant musical city of Berlin, pianist, composer, and conductor Anna Skryleva had been raised in Moscow. At age five she received her first piano lessons, and at eight she completed her first own composition. Anna was accepted to the composers' class at Moscow's Tchaikovsky Conservatory when she was ten. That same university later trained her as a pianist and chamber musician. Having completed her piano studies at Berlin's Universität der Künste Berlin with Klaus Hellwig, she then joined the conducting class of Lutz Herbig in Düsseldorf. Anna Skryleva has been a fellow of the five-year promotion program of the Institute for Women Conductors at Dallas Opera between 2015 and 2020.