Oliver Triendl, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin & Anna Skryleva
Biography Oliver Triendl, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin & Anna Skryleva
Oliver Triendl
One can hardly imagine a more devoted champion of neglected and rarely played composers than pianist Oliver Triendl. His tireless commitment – primarily to romantic and contemporary music – is reflected in more than 100 CD recordings. The scope of his repertoire is surely unique, comprising some 90 piano concertos and hundreds of chamber music pieces. In many cases, he was the first to present these works on stage or to commit them to disc.
As a soloist Triendl has performed together with many renowned orchestras. The list includes the Bamberg and Munich Symphonies, Munich Radio Orchestra, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, NDR Radio Philharmonic, Gürzenich Orchestra, Munich Philharmonic, Staatskapelle Weimar, German Radio Philharmonic, German State Philharmonic of Rhineland-Palatinate, Munich, Southwest German, Stuttgart, Württemberg and Bavarian Radio Chamber Orchestras, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, Orchestre Symphonique de Bretagne, Mozarteum Orchestra of Salzburg, Tonkunstler Orchestra Vienna, Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, Czech State Philharmonic, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Sinfonia Varsovia, Polish Chamber Philharmonic, Georgian Chamber Orchestra, St.Petersburg Camerata, Zagreb Soloists and Shanghai Symphony Orchestra.
The avid chamber musician has concertized with fellow musicians such as Christian Altenburger, Wolfgang Boettcher, Thomas Brandis, Eduard Brunner, Ana Chumachenko, David Geringas, Clemens Hagen, Frans Helmerson, Hervé Joulain, Isabelle van Keulen, Rainer Kussmaul, François Leleux, Lorin Maazel, Marie Luise Neunecker, Paul Meyer, Sabine and Wolfgang Meyer, Pascal Moraguès, Charles Neidich, Arto Noras, Raphaël Oleg, Gustav Rivinius, Benjamin Schmid, Hagai Shaham, Christian Tetzlaff, Radovan Vlatković, Jan Vogler and Antje Weithaas. He performed with Apollon musagète, Artis, Atrium, Auryn, Carmina, Danel, Gringolts, Keller, Leipzig, Mandelring, Meta4, Minguet, Pražák, Schumann, Sine Nomine, Škampa, Talich and Vogler String Quartets as well as with excellent artists of the younger generation like Nicolas Altstaedt, Claudio Bohórquez, Mirijam Contzen, James Ehnes, Liza Ferschtman, David Grimal, Ilya Gringolts, Alina Ibragimova, Sharon Kam, Henning Kraggerud, Pekka Kuusisto, Johannes Moser, Daniel Müller-Schott, Alina Pogostkina, Christian Poltéra, Alexander Sitkovetsky, Baiba Skride, Valeriy Sokolov, Carolin and Jörg Widmann.
Triendl, a native of Mallersdorf, Bavaria, where he was born in 1970, and a prizewinner at many national and international competitions, studied under Rainer Fuchs, Karl-Heinz Diehl, Eckart Besch, Gerhard Oppitz and Oleg Maisenberg. He has concertized with success at festivals and in many of Europe’s major music centers as well as in North and South America, South Africa, Russia and Asia.
Anna Skryleva
the winner of the prestigious Opus Klassik Award 2024 - conductor, composer, pianist and synaesthete - has made a name for herself on the international stage in recent years. The cosmopolitan began playing the piano as a child and composed her first piece at the age of eight. Since then, as a composing conductor, she has been committed to pushing the boundaries of the traditional with creativity, prudence and depth: "For me, the primary goal is to be able to perform theatre and art on an equal footing with reality."
As a composing conductor she is passionately dedicated to expanding the orchestral and opera repertoire. Her rediscovery and world premiere of Eugene Engtel's opera "Grete Minde" in 2022 caused an international sensation and is considered a discovery of the century. During her tenure as a General Music Director at the Theater Magdeburg (2019-2025), numerous successful projects were realized, earning her international recognition: the Special Prize "Innovative Orchestra 2019" from the German Orchestra Foundation for her concert programming. 2022 the production of Eugen Engel's "Grete Minde" were nominated for the International Opera Awards. 2024 the Magdeburg Philharmonic and Anna Skryleva won the prestigious Opus Klassik Award 2024 for the World Premiere Recording of "Grete Minde" and was nominated for the Best Opera Recording by Opus Klassik Award 2024.
As a conductor, her training has taken her through the classic stages of a general music director: from solo pianist to positions as a repetiteur, assistant and conductor, with mentors including Simone Young and Julia Jones, as well as the Institute for Women Conductors at the Dallas Opera (USA).
Anna Skryleva regularly works as a guest at renowned opera houses and with outstanding orchestras, including the the Royal Swedish Opera, the Dallas Opera, the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, the Frankfurt Radio Symphony orchestra, the Copenhagen Phil and the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin. in 2025 and 2026 she will debut at Teatro alla Scala and the Sydeny Opera House.
The conductor also works closely with international soloists and singers such as Andreas Schager, Camilla Nylund and Vida Miknevičute, violinist Arabella Steinbacher, pianists Lucas & Arthur Jussen and horn player Felix Klieser.
Anna Skryleva's versatile repertoire spans the Viennese classical era of Mozart and Beethoven, German and Russian Romanticism from Tchaikovsky to Wagner and Strauss, as well as Italian masters such as Verdi and Puccini. As a conductor, she also pays special attention to the music of the 20th century with focus on Britten, Shostakovitch and Prokofiev, as well as contemporary music. In close collaboration with composers such as Master of the King's Music errollyn Wallen, Lera Auerbach and Konstantia Gourzi, Anna Skryleva continues to create groundbreaking projects.
Since she was accepted into the composition class at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory at the age of only ten, Anna Skryleva has worked steadily as a composer; her works are published by Universal Edition Vienna. She has created several opera and orchestral arrangements for the theatres in Magdeburg and Winterthur, including Mozart's "La clemenza di Tito" and Wagner's prelude to the opera "Lohengrin". in 2023, "Lullaby" was created for two voices and orchestra, which had its world premiere in Magdeburg. Two further premieres took part in May and June 2024: "3 Impromptus in C" in the orchestral version with the Augsburg Philharmonic Orchestra and "Mirror" for soprano and orchestra with the Magdeburg Philharmonic Orchestra. "Mirror" is based on the "Solresol" language, in which each musical motif is assigned a specific word. The work is based on a poem that Skryleva wrote in 2021 - in her composition, the music is triggered and shaped by words.
In October 2025, the world premiere of "Scherzo for Horn and Orchestra" will take place, a work composed by Skryleva for the renowned horn played Felix Klieser, which will be part of a concert for horn and orchestra.
Anna Skryleva is not only committed to music, but also to society: in 2014, she founded the international peace initiative "CLASSIC FOR PEACE" (CFP), with which the versatile artist aims to promote international understanding through classical music.
