Anna Gebert is a sought-after chamber musician, teacher, concertmaster and baroque violinist. Her repertoire includes music from early baroque to modern. She performs at festivals in many European countries and the USA.
At the age of 15 she was accepted into the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, two years later she was a founding member of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra.
After the Karajan Academy and a year of full employment with the Berlin Philharmonic, Anna Gebert was concertmaster of the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne from 2007-2011 and subsequently of the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra in Norway until 2019. At the same time, she studied education and psychology and taught at the University of Trondheim.
As concertmaster and section leader she has appeared with over 25 major European opera and symphony orchestras, including the London Symphony Orchestra, Bavarian State Opera, BR Symphony Orchestra, Stockholm Philharmonic, Helsinki Philharmonic, Frankfurt Museum Orchestra, HR and Philharmonia Zurich. Her operatic repertoire includes 59 operas. She is currently concertmaster with the Oslo Barokkanerne and Helsinki Baroque Orchestras.
Her first teachers were Zinaida Gilels and Zoria Chikmurzaeva. She studied with Igor Bezrodny in Helsinki, Magdalena Rezler in Freiburg im Breisgau, postgraduate studies in the master class with Ana Chumachenco in Munich and the Artist Diploma with Miriam Fried in Bloomington, Indiana, while studying baroque violin with Stanley Ritchie and Walter Reiter, who remains an important mentor for her to this day. She is currently studying viola, baroque violin and viola da gamba.
Anna Gebert has been Professor of Violin at the Zurich University of the Arts since autumn 2020 and Professor of Chamber Music at the Basel University of Music since 2021.
She plays a violin by Joseph Gagliano from 1794.
Anna Gebert shapes her teaching with a great deal of empathy and a holistic understanding of human psychology. The experiences of each person and their individual paths are to be taken into account as well as the questions into which we must first live:
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke