Anna Kretta Gribajcevic

Finnish violist Anna Kreetta Gribajcevic studied at the Sibelius Academy, the Saarbrücken College of Music and the Academy of Music ‘Hanns Eisler’ Berlin. She won second prize in the BDI Viola Competition in Leverkusen in 1995 and the following year won the Tampere Viola Competition. She has appeared as a recitalist and chamber musician in Europe and the USA, at numerous festivals and as a soloist with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Tapiola Sinfonietta, Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra and Berlin Symphony Orchestra. She has given the Finnish premières of many compositions. Anna Kreetta Gribajcevic has been principal violist of the Lahti Symphony Orchestra since 2000 and is a founder member of the Helsinki Festival Orchestra.