Anna Dmitrieva & Pavel Serbin
Biography Anna Dmitrieva & Pavel Serbin
Anna Dmitrieva
is quickly developing her career as a HIP violinist and becoming a frequently asked guest in many ensembles across Europe.
Highlights of past seasons feature her work as a concertmaster of Concerto Köln in romantique repertoire under Kent Nagano, Jacob Lehmann as well as leader/soloist in various Baroque programs, leader of Akamus Berlin, Ensemble Boulevard Baroque and Ensemble 1700. Her experience also includes performances and recordings with such groups und orchestras as Cordevento, La Chapelle Harmonique, Compagna di Punto, Altera Pars, Il Pomo d'oro, B'rock, Musica Gloria, Collegium Musicum '23, Orchestra of the Eighteenth century and others. Next season Anna will appear as a leader in such prestigeous venues as the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Philharmonie Köln and Bachfest Leipzig as well perform her solo programs.
At the end of 2020 Anna co-founded a piano trio Alterna (on historical instruments) and in May 2021 they won 2nd prize and a Beethoven prize at the competition “Beethoven in his time” in Siegburg (Germany). In May 2023 the debut CD of the group is out and enjoys a nice critic.
With her ensemble Ludus Instrumentalis she was awarded 1st Prize at Berliner-Bach Wettbewerb as well as in the Förderpreis Alte Musik in Saarbrücken and Gebrüder Graun Wettbewerb in Bad Liebenwerda In 2016 she was Semifinalist at International baroque music competition Concours Corneille. She has recorded numerous CD’s under the prestigious labels of Pentatone, Outhere, Genuin and Alpha.
Anna Dmitrieva (1987) graduated from St.Petersburg Conservatory under the tutalige of T.Liberova, P.Popov, I.Dzektzer. She studied chamber music and baroque violin in Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln studying with A.Spiri, H.Schoneweg, R.Gwilt, and K.Junghänel. With her group Ludus Instrumentalis she did a post graduate course in Mozarteum Salzburg with R.Goebel.
Since 2023, Anna plays on Camillo Camilli violin from 1743, loaned by the Jumpstart Jr. Foundation. Her debut solo CD featuring the music of Ivan Khandoshkin will appear on Brilliant Classics in 2026.
Pavel Serbin
plays the cello and viola da gamba. He is also a teacher at the Moscow Conservatoire, a founder of the ensemble A la Russe and both soloist and artistic director of the orchestra Pratum Integrum. Born in Moscow in 1978, he graduated from the Gnessin Music School (studied with Honoured Culture Worker V.M. Birina) and the Moscow Conservatoire (among his teachers: professors Dmitry Miller – violoncello, Alexander Rudin – Chamber music, Alexander Galkovsky – Quartet). He has also attended classes at the Royal Academy of Music in The Hague taught by Jaap ter Linden (Baroque cello) and Wieland Kuijken (viola da gamba). Serbin has won prizes at the Bruges Early Music Competition (1999, as part of the Gassenhauer Trio) and the competitions Premio Bonporti and Van Wassenaar (2000, in a duet with Olga Martynova). His dissertation was on cello music composed in Russia from the late 18th to early 19th centuries.
In 2003 he was among the founders of the orchestra Pratum Integrum, which performs on period instruments. Pavel Serbin determines their repertoire policy and the orchestra now plays an important role in Russian culture. At his initiative Pratum Integrum has performed some two hundred compositions from the 17th to 19th centuries, many never heard before in Russia. As a soloist Serbin has presented to the Russian public for the first time chamber cello pieces by Jan Bohumir Prac, Johann Henrich Facius, Gottfried Rieger and Jacob Klein. Serbin has played with the Academy of Ancient Music (London) led by Christopher Hogwood and Paul Goodwin, the orchestra Moderntimes_1800, the Bergen Barokk ensemble, and others. Since 2008 he has taken the role of conductor. Under his direction Pratum Integrum has performed symphonies by Haydn, Rosetti and Vanhal, as well as Fomin’s melodrama Orpheus.
