Anna Malikova was born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, where she received her first piano lessons with Tamara Popovich. She studied in Moscow with Lev Naumov at the Central Music School and at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory, where she graduated in 1991. Afterwards she held a teaching position herself at the Conservatory for several years.
Her career started In the former Soviet Union. She gave solo recitals in cities like Moscow, St Petersburg, Omsk, Baku, to name only a few, and had appearances with orchestras e.g. in Sverdlovsk, Minsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Kazan and Tashkent.
Being a prize-winner of the important international competitíons in Oslo, Warsaw (Chopin Competiton) and Sydney, Anna Malikova began to perform more and more in the West. For instance was she invited to play with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, the Warsaw National Philharmony, the Academy of St Martin in the Fields and the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation Orchestra – to name only a few.
In 1993 Anna Malikova won 1st Prize at the ARD Competition Munich - the only first prize
for a pianist in 12 years. This success established Anna Malikova in the international music scene. Today she gives solo-recitals and is in demand as a chamber music partner and as a guest soloist with orchestras all over Europe, South America. the Middle and the Far East.
Besides her busy concert schedule Anna Malikova continuously increases her recorded repertoire. All the main works by Chopin and works by Schubert, Liszt, Shostakovich, Prokofiev and Soler are also available on CD, released on the Label Classical Records.
2006 her Vol II of the integral Saint-Sains recording for Audite received the coveted Classic Internet Award.

After graduating from the Music School of the Leningrad Conservatory and the Music Academy in East Berlin Thomas Sanderling started his career at the age of twenty-four as the Music Director of the Halle Opera; he had regular appearances with most of the East German orchestras including the Staatskapelle Dresden, the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig and the Komische Oper Berlin. He attracted Shostakovich’s attention who asked him to première his Thirteenth and Fourteenth Symphony in East Germany and to make the world première recording of The Michelangelo Suite, the composer’s last orchestral work. Until 1983 Thomas Sanderling was the permanent Guest Conductor of the Deutsche Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin; he then moved to the West where he appeared at the Vienna Staatsoper, the Bayerische Staatsoper, the Frankfurt Oper, the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Hamburg Staatsoper, the Royal Danish Opera, the Finnish National Opera and “La Fenice” in Venice. Additionally to his successful opera career Thomas Sanderling conducted many symphony concerts. He appeared with renowned ensembles like the orchestras in Dallas, Baltimore, Vancouver, Pittsburgh, Detroit and Montreal; in Europe he worked with the Vienna Symphony, the Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin and orchestras in Dresden, Liverpool, Stockholm, Oslo and Helsinki. Many concert tours led him to Japan; he is the lifetime Music Director Laureate with the Osaka Symphony Orchestra which he led as their principal conductor for ten years. In Russia, he frequently performed with the Great Radio Symphony and the St Petersburg Philharmonic. He also served as Music Director of the Russian Philharmonic. Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, he resigned from his positions as Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the orchestra in Novosibirsk.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau was born in 1925 in Berlin as Dietrich Fischer von Dieskau. His musical talent was recognised early on and encouraged, thus he received vocal instruction from Georg A. Walter early already at age 16. After the war he studied with Hermann Weißenborn from 1947 until 1948 at the Berlin Music Academy.

His career began in January 1948 when he sang Schubert’s Winterreise (Winter Journey) on the radio. During the same year he was engaged at the Berlin State Opera, and one year later he made his first recordings. That same year he made guest appearances on the operatic stages in Munich and Vienna. Further stations in his career were the 1951 performance at the Salzburg Festival under the direction of Wilhelm Furtwängler and during the same year his festival debut in Edinburgh. His first tour in the USA and the second radio recording of Schubert’s Winterreise for the WDR took place in 1952. In 1954 Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau performed at the Bayreuth Festival for the first time. During the following years, further performances led him to Carnegie Hall in New York, the German Opera in Berlin, the Vienna State Opera, the Bavarian State Opera in Munich and the Royal Opera House in London.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau has received numerous prizes and honours, including the Federal Distinguished Service Cross, honorary doctorates, recording prizes and life achievement prizes, to name only a few examples.

In 1983 Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau became Professor at the Academy of the Arts in Berlin. In early 1993 he concluded his active career as a singer. Since then he has been an active teacher, conductor, reciter and author.





Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau wurde 1925 in Berlin als Dietrich Fischer von Dieskau geboren. Seine musikalische Begabung wurde früh erkannt und gefördert und so erhielt er bereits mit 16 Jahren Gesangsunterricht bei Georg A. Walter. Nach dem Krieg studierte er von 1947 bis 1948 bei Hermann Weißenborn an der Berliner Musikakademie.

Seine Karriere begann im Januar 1948, als er erstmals Schuberts Winterreise für den Rundfunk sang. Noch im selben Jahr wurde er an die Städtische Oper Berlin verpflichtet, ein Jahr später fand die erste Schallplattenaufnahme statt. Im gleichen Jahr gastierte er auf den Opernbühnen in München und Wien. Weitere Stationen waren 1951 der Auftritt bei den Salzburger Festspielen unter der Leitung von Wilhelm Furtwängler und im selben Jahr das Festivaldebüt in Edinburgh. 1952 folgte neben der ersten Tournee in die USA die zweite Rundfunkaufnahme von Schuberts Winterreise für den WDR. 1954 trat Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau zum ersten Mal bei den Bayreuther Festspielen auf. In den folgenden Jahren führten ihn weitere Auftritte in die Carnegie Hall nach New York, an die Deutsche Oper Berlin, die Wiener Staatsoper, die Bayerische Staatsoper in München und an das Royal Opera House in London.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau erhielt zahlreiche Preise und Ehrungen, darunter das Bundesverdienstkreuz, Ehrendoktorwürden und Schallplatten- und Life-Achievement-Preise, um hier nur einige wenige Beispiele zu nennen.

1983 wurde Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau als Professor an die Hochschule der Künste in Berlin berufen. Anfang 1993 beendete er seine aktive Karriere als Sänger. Er ist seither ein viel beschäftigter Lehrer, Dirigent, Rezitator und Buchautor.