Anna Drubich

Anna Solovieva Drubich was born in Moscow. From an early age Anna was exposed to music and began piano lessons at the age of 8. Anna earned her Bachelor and Master's degrees at the Munich School for the Performing Arts (2002-2008) under the tutelage of Professor Franz Massinger. Anna has been very busy as a solo and chamber music performer giving concerts in Russia, Ukraine, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland and Spain, among others. She is a recipient of several awards and prizes, including First Prize at the Moscow Beethoven Competition and the Mozart Prize at the Bremen International Piano Competition. Ms. Drubich is also a beneficiary of the Spivakov Foundation and Krainev Foundation scholarships. In addition to her piano endeavors, Anna has been writing music, focusing on film composition. Her first project, in cooperation with Andrei Golovin, was the score to the film O Liubvi [About Love] (Mosfilm, Russia, 2002), which went on to receive the Best Music award at the Russian National Film Festival Kinotavr. After this success Anna decided to pursue her studies in Film Composition at the Munich School for the Performing Arts, under the guidance of Prof. Enjott Schneider and is expected to graduate in July 2011. Concurrently with her studies, Anna participated in several film projects, including the Lange Nacht der Musik for which she wrote several pieces. In 2009 Anna was awarded the Special Prize at the Soundtrack Cologne Competition for her composition for the animated