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.
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Anna Kuvaja

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.

Anna Kuvaja is also renowned as a fortepianist and on the other hand has given first performances of several contemporary compositions. Kuvaja 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 Kuvaja 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.

Kuvaja 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.

Her first solo album, Fluvial, came out in 2016 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.”

Her next album Soiréestücke (Alba Records, 2022) contains romantic chamber music by Clara and Robert Schumann and Niels W. Gade. Lauri Sallinen, clarinet and Anna Kuvaja, piano

York Bowen and Rebecca Clarke: Sonatas for viola and piano (Alba Records, 2023) Hanna Hohti, viola and Anna Kuvaja, piano (original Pleyel Grand from 1874)

The latest album PARIPELI – FOR TWO (Alba Records, 2025) contains Finnish chamber music by Rautavaara, Sallinen, Kokkonen, Meriläinen and Fagerlund, of those Meriläinen and Fagerlund are world premiere recordings. Alexander Gebert, cello and Anna Kuvaja, piano

Performances

Kautokeino | Juhls Silver Gallery
4.4.2026
Heijastuksia
Enontekiö | Hetan kirkko
5.4.2026
Valon ja musiikin juhlaa

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1.-5.4.2026

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