22 June 2025 at 20:00

Anna Victoria Baltrusch (Germany)

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Anna-Victoria Baltrusch was born in Berlin, Germany, in 1989. She studied Church Music, Organ and Piano in Berlin and Freiburg. Her organ teachers were Prof Andreas Sieling, Prof Martin Schmeding, Prof Zsigmond Szathmáry and Frédéric Champion. After finishing her Master’s degree, she graduated in Freiburg with honours („mit Auszeichnung“) as an Organ Soloist in 2016. Anna-Victoria was awarded renowned prizes at international organ competitions such as the Internationaler Orgelwettbewerb der Bach-Gesellschaft Wiesbaden, the Deutscher Musikwettbewerb, the 60th International Music Competition of the ARD, the Internationaler August-Gottfried-Ritter-Wettbewerb  Magdeburg, the International Organ Competition St. Albans and the Internationaler Bach/Liszt-Orgelwettbewerb Erfurt-Weimar. Anna-Victoria Baltrusch has performed in recitals and concerts throughout Europe.  From 2014 to 2015 she worked as Director of Music at the Protestant church in Bad Krozingen, Germany. From 2015 to 2019, Anna-Victoria taught organ at the University of Music Leipzig and additionally, since February 2016, had been working as an organist at Neumünster Church, Zurich, Switzerland and was conductor of the chamber choir TonArt Zürich. Anna-Victoria currently teaches as a professor of organ at the Evangelische Hochschule für Kirchenmusik in Halle, Germany. In 2022 she was appointed titular organist of the Ulrichskirche concert hall in Halle and has also been university organist at MLU Halle since 2023.