“Music is always with me”. This is how Anna Skryleva, the winner of Opus Klassik 2024 - German composer, conductor, pianist and synaesthete - describes her work, with which she has made a name for herself on the international stage in recent years.

The composer-conductor is currently General Music Director at Magdeburg Theatre and is enthusiastically committed to expanding the standard orchestral and operatic repertoire. Her rediscovery and premiere of Eugen Engel's opera “Grete Minde” in 2022 caused an international sensation and is considered a discovery of the century.

In May 2024, "3 Impromptus in C" in the orchestral version were premiered by Augsburg Philharmonic with great success. "Three concise pieces. Modernity without harshness or elitism, and yet distinct in compositional style." writes Augsburger Allgemeine newspaper. In June 2024 her enigmatic "Mirror" for for soprano and orchestra were successfully premiered with the Magdeburg Philharmonic. “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.

Skryleva created several opera and orchestral arrangements for the theatres in Magdeburg and Winterthur, including Mozart's “La clemenza di Tito” and Wagner's “Vorspiel” to the opera “Lohengrin”. In 2023, she wrote “Lullaby” for two voices and orchestra, which had its world premiere in Magdeburg. 

Anna Skryleva is based in Berlin.