Anna Buda

Biography

Acclaimed by the Tunis media as a „ graceful violinist from Poland”, Anna Buda is a polish
violinist specializing in solo, chamber as well as orchestral performance. She started her
first violin lesson at the age of seven, inspired by legendary Anna Sophie Mutter
performance at the Cracow Philharmonic. By the age of ten, she went on the win at the
Multiinstrumental Competition in Cracow.
Since then, Anna Buda has performed in over 40 countries and been laureate of the XXII
International Violin Competition in Citta' di Barletta (Italy, 2012) with 2nd and 3rd prize,
finalist of the First Violin Competition ' Young Virtuoso' (Poland, 2013) and finalist Malta
International Violin Competition (2014), laureate of the 2 prize at Polish Rising Music Stars
Competition (2020) and 3 prize winner of the International Moscow Music Competition
(2020), winner of the Poland Prestige Awards in the category Violinist of the Year
(2020/21), winner of the 1 prize at Swiss International Music Competition (2021).
She has also appeared as a violin chamber and orchestral musician in a worldwide
television networks like NBC 6, polish TVN, TVP culture.
As a keen chamber and orchestral musician, she has participated in festivals as a
scholar including the World Youth Orchestra with whom she played in Italy, Monaco,
Switzerland, Germany, as a soloist and as a leader of the ensemble; Lusławice
Academy's Orchestra ( The European Krzysztof Penderecki Center for Music); Die
Internationale Junge Orchesterakademie during the Osterfestival in Bayreuth; Santander
Orchestra of maestro Krzysztof Penderecki; Festival Warsaw Autumn; Miami Music
Festival where she cooperated with Wagner Institute and was one of the leaders at the
opera fellowship; Pacific Music Festival Academy in Japan with Valery Gergiev director,
where she cooperated with musicians from Wiener Philharmoniker, Berliner
Philharmoniker and Metropolitan Opera; Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester where she had
opportunity to work with Vladimir Jurowski, Lorenzo Viotti, and Lisa Batiashwili; Summer
Music Academy with the Scharoun Ensemble Der Berliner Philharmoniker in Penderecki
European Center; Szczecin Classic Academy; Emanacje Festival of Krzysztof Penderecki;
Die Internationale Musikakademie fur solisten in Buckeburgu with Natalia Prishepenko
and Boris Kusnezov.
Scholar of the Ministry of Culture, National Heritage in Poland, President of Cracow City
and the Kosciuszko Foundation.
In 2014 she played as a soloist and leader of the chamber orchestra of the World Youth Orchestra
in United Nations Human Rights Hall. In 2015 she was invited as a soloist to play during
the Festival “Les Jeunes Virtuoses” in Tunis with a solo recital program. In 2019 at the
invitation of Sharoun Ensemble Der Berliner Philharmoniker, she played during a lunch
concert at the Berliner Philharmoniker as a leader of two chamber ensembles. In 2020
for the invitation, she played solo and led chamber music recitals during “The Musical
Extravaganza at Sea” from Miami Classical Music Festival on the Brand New Celebrity
Edge ( Fort Lauderdale, Puerto Rico, British Virgin Islands, St. Martin). In 2020 she won
twice as one of the 50 projects, collaboration with KBF ( Poland) for the special solo
and chamber music concerts - projects at the “Partnership with the music 2.0”.
Anna Buda has performed with numerous orchestras and has had solo recitals in halls
such as the Berliner Philharmoniker, Vienna Musikverein, New World Center in Miami,
Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, Santory Hall in Tokyo, Elbphilharmonie in
Hamburg, United Nations Human Rights Hall in Geneva, Monte Carlo Opera House,
Luxembourg Philharmonie, Dresden Kulturpalast, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in
Lisbon, NOSPR in Katowice, NFM in Wrocław, ICE Congress Center in Kraków and many
more.

Since 2021 soloist of the second violin section in Cracow Opera House.
Since 2021 student of Hochschule fur Musik Wurzburg in violin class Michael Szykulski.

She finished her Master degree in violin performance at the Academy of Music in Cracow,
where she studied with Professor Mieczysław Szlezer ( whose Professors were Josef
Gingold, Henryk Szeryng, Franco Gulla). Beside this, she mastered her skills during the
masterclasses with Tadeusz Gadzina, Michał Grabarczyk, Vadim Brodski, Krzysztof
Jakowicz, Krzysztof Węgrzyn, Tomasz Tomaszewski, Michael Stricharz, Igor
Petrushevsky, Levon Ambartsumian, Mikhail Kopelman, Gary Levinson, Andres Cardenes,
Natalia Prischepenko, Friedemann Eichhorn, Larry Rachleff, Krzysztof Penderecki, Sir
Neville Marriner, Natalia Prischepenko, Rainer Küchl, Daniel Froschauer, Jun Märkl,
Valery Gergiev, Wolfram Brandl, Bartłomiej Nizioł, VascoVassilev, Chloe Kiffer, Joel
Smirnoff, Claudio Bohorquez, Peter Riegelbauer, Igor Yuzefovich.