1991—
2008
Biography
Anna Elizabeth Anita Mayorga Voitsekhovskaia (Anita May) was born in 1991 in Villavicencio(Colombia) in a Russian-Colombian family. This diversity helped her to have a wide and diverse formation.
She had her first musical lessons when she was three years old with her mother Natalia Voitsekhovskaia and her maternal grand-mother Anna Voitsekhovskaia.
In 1997 Anita was accepted into the Moscow Special Musical School named by Gnessin. There she was studying with Irina Renova (from 1997 to 2003) and Elena Ivanova (from 2004 to 2009).
2009—
2015
After finishing school, in 2009 she was accepted into the Moscow State Conservatory named by Tchaikovsky where she continued her study under the tutelage of professor Stanislav Igolinsky (Honoured Artist of Russian Federation).
While studying, Anita performed in the most prestigious halls of Moscow including Great Hall, Small Hall and Mirror Hall of Moscow State Conservatory, Central House of Artists, Great Hall of Central Musical Academy. She gave concerts as a soloist with orchestras in Russia ("Gnessin virtuosi") and Colombia (Institutional Symphonic Orchestra of the Conservatory of Ibague, Batuta Meta Orchestra) and has also performed in South Korea and France.
Anita participated and performed in numerous musical festivals and masterclasses: Allegro Vivo Festival (Austria), Espressivo Festival (Mon- tenegro), "Beethoven" and "Debussy, Scriabin and Rachmaninoff" Festivals (Russia), “Bogotá es Brahms, Schubert y Schumann” in Bogota (Colombia).
Since the year 2013, she became a member of a musical Foundation Belcanto in Moscow where she has artistic cooperation with Yuri Tashtamirov (Saxophone).
In 2014 she finished Moscow Conservatory with distinction and continued her education with professor Pyotr Ovtcharov in one of the most prestigious universities in South Korea, Yonsei University (Seoul). She was also the first European student who was given Global Leader Scholarship & Fellowship. In December of 2016 Anita graduated with a Master's Degree.
2016—
2020
In February 2016 she won the special prize «Jean-Baptiste Lully conservatory» at the 15th Piano-Campus international competition in France.
In August of the same year, she became a prize-winner of the 8th International Rosario Marciano Piano Competition in Vienna. And also was awarded a special prize for her performance of Russian composers.
In June 2017 Anita won the first prize at San Jose International Competition in California.
In February 2018 she got a special merit prize at Los Angeles International Competition.
In April 2018 Anita won the First prize at Teresa Lacuna International Piano Competition in France, Valence. In July of the same year she was invited to the Academy of Beethoven and Schumann by the Kempff Foundation at Positano (Italy).
In August 2020 Anita started her Doctoral degree at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles (USA) under the guidance of maestro Daniel Pollack.