Fluvial Anna Kuvaja

• Jean Sibelius (1865 - 1957): 4 Lyric Pieces, Op. 74: No. 1, Ekloge
• 1 Sibelius: 4 Lyric Pieces, Op. 74: No. 1, Ekloge 04:06
• 2 Sibelius: 4 Lyric Pieces, Op. 74: No. 2, Sanfter Westwind 02:31
• 3 Sibelius: 4 Lyric Pieces, Op. 74: No. 3, Auf dem Tanzvergnügen 02:06
• 4 Sibelius: 4 Lyric Pieces, Op. 74: No. 4, Im alten Heim 02:40
• Maurice Ravel (1875 - 1937): Jeux d'eau, M. 30:
• 5 Ravel: Jeux d'eau, M. 30 05:46
• Thomas Bystrom (1772 - 1839): Air russe variée:
• 6 Bystrom : Air russe variée 12:34
• Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828): Piano Sonata No. 20 in A Major, D. 959:
• 7 Schubert: Piano Sonata No. 20 in A Major, D. 959: I. Allegro 15:15
• 8 Schubert: Piano Sonata No. 20 in A Major, D. 959: II. Andantino 08:47
• 9 Schubert: Piano Sonata No. 20 in A Major, D. 959: III. Scherzo. Allegro vivace 05:17
• 10 Schubert: Piano Sonata No. 20 in A Major, D. 959: IV. Rondo. Allegretto 11:50
• Total Runtime 01:10:52

Info for Fluvial

Finnish pianist Anna Kuvaja began her impressive record early on in her career. In 2006, she graduated with a masters degree from the Sibelius Academy, and received for her diploma recital the highest possible grade. Anna tours as a soloist, Lied pianist, and chamber artist throughout Europe and the United States. She is particularly passionate about performing chamber music. Anna writes of this project: As this album, my debut recording, began to take shape, I felt it important to choose works that felt natural for me as a musician and which would also form a rounded whole as a piano recital. The works by well-known piano composers and Finnish composers which I interpret merge together so as to blur the underlying reflections between them.

Anna Kuvaja, piano

Anna Kuvaja
The Finnish pianist Anna Kuvaja is a versatile musician who performs as a soloist, chamber musician and orchestral player and has partnered a great variety of artists. She is also renowned as a fortepianist and on the other hand has given first performances of several contemporary compositions.

Anna came to public attention with her critically acclaimed debut recital in Helsinki in 2008 and has given numerous concerts in her home country and abroad since then, as well as recording for YLE (the Finnish Broadcasting Company) and appearing at many festivals. Since 2010 Anna has complemented her performing with educational work at the Sibelius Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki, where she is highly regarded as a teacher.

Anna began playing the piano in Kuhmo in eastern Finland and continued her studies at the renowned Espoo music school under Katarina Nummi-Kuisma at the age of 16. At the Sibelius Academy her teachers were Tuija Hakkila and Liisa Pohjola, and she rounded off her education with masterclasses in piano and chamber music, as an exchange student at the CNSM in Paris with Henri Barda, and in the orchestra academy of the Zurich Opera from 2005 until 2007.

In 2016 Anna published her first solo album, Fluvial, on the Alba label. The record received excellent reviews and was awarded five stars in BBC Music Magazine, which praised “a stunning debut disc… powerful Schubert.”

Anna is the recipient of one of the Finnish state’s prestigious artists’ grants in 2017.

This album contains no booklet.