Anna Rutkowska-Schock completed her piano education under Prof. Helena Furmanowicz and Prof. Grzegorz Kurzynski at the K. Lipinski Academy of Music in Wrocław, Poland.
As a teenager, in 1992, she was the finalist of a 4-stage European Chopin Competition in Darmstad. In 1996, she was the Laureate of the Piano Festival in Słupsk, Poland. In 1997, she was awarded a scholarship to attend Boise State University (Idaho, USA) by Dr. Madeleine Forte.
In 2003, Anna was awarded the Best Accompanist award at the IBLA Grand Prize International Music Competition in Sicily and, as a result, performed many times at Carnegie Hall in New York.
She has been invited as the staff accompanist for international music competitions in Rome (2004), Peru (Trujillo, 2005), Slovakia (Trnava, 2006-2010), Sicily (Ragusa IBLA, 2004-2015) and several competitions in Poland. So far she has received more than 50 awards for the Best Piano Collaborator from vocal and violin competitions in Poland and abroad. She has been a jury member of several editions of the IBLA Grand Prize International Competition in Sicily and of the International Piano Competition in Surabaya (Indonesia) in 2011.
In 2006 she received a full scholarship to take part in the Summer Academy of Music, organized by Music Academy of the West, in Santa Barbara, California. During this course she mastered her collaborative piano skills under Anne Epperson and Jonathan Feldman. In 2007 she was the director of the Festival of American Music in Wrocław. To date, she has published six CDs, with French and contemporary music (solo and chamber).
In 2016 Anna joined an Australian chamber music group named The Hourglass Ensemble with which she has taken part in concerts in Poland, Austria, Germany, Switzerland and Australia. Each project is crowned with a performance at Sydney Opera House. The ensemble has also performed live on-air with an interview on the radio station Fine Music 102.5 in Australia. In 2019 and 2023 she was the official pianist for the Australian Flute Festivals which took place at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. During the festival in 2019 Anna played a recital of Ian Clarke’s compositions with the composer and illustrated on the piano all the works submitted for a composition competition for pieces for flute and piano. In 2022 Anna gave lectures and performed in San Germán, Puerto Rico, during a 2-week festival organized by the Puerto Rico Center of Collaborative Piano.
So far Anna has performed on five continents, with people from about 40 different countries.
She works as a professor at the Academy of Music in Wrocław (with a post-doctoral degree) and teaches at the Secondary Music School in Wrocław.
