Anna Gebert

Anna Gebert (born 1979 in Warsaw, Poland) is a Finnish violinist of Polish and German descent. Her parents are music teachers who moved from Poland to work in Finland in 1980.

From August 2007, she was Assistant Concertmaster of the Cologne Philharmonic Gürzenich Orchestra, and since September 2011 the First Concertmaster of the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra.

Ms. Gebert was an artist faculty at the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival since 2000 and is currently faculty at the NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. Festival performances include Ravinia Festival Steans Institute, Prussia Cove, Sarasota, Holland Music Sessions. Her chamber music partners have included Yefim Bronfman, Gilbert Kalish, Ik-Wan Bae, Miriam Fried, Ana Chumachenco, Guy Braunstein, David Cohen, Paul Biss, Thomas Riebl, and Svetlin Roussev.

She is a member of the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra and the European Union Youth Orchestra 1994–1997 and Mahler Chamber Orchestra 1997–2000. She performed substitute work on several occasions including:

She studies with Igor Bezrodny at Helsinki Sibelius-Academy, Magdalena Rezler in Freiburg, and Ana Chumachenco in Munich. She was a Fulbright scholar (Artist Diploma) at Indiana University in Bloomington with Miriam Fried and Paul Biss, including baroque violin studies with Stanley Ritchie. Ms. Gebert is member of the Karajan Academy under the tutelage of Guy Braunstein and Christian Stadelmann and a full-time substitute of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra 2005–2007.