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ANNA KORSUN (b. 1986, Donetsk) is a composer, sound artist and performer based in Germany. She studied composition in Kyiv and Munich with Moritz Eggert.

Anna combines creatively musical composition with installation, performance and sound art. She composes for different ensembles from soloist to orchestral, including acoustic instruments, voice, electronics and sounding objects. She collaborates with visual arts, dance, theater and literature. Anna involves both professional and amateur musicians, as well as non-musicians in her work. As an artist herself Anna performs contemporary music as a vocalist and on keyboard instruments, directs musical projects and teaches composition at the Amsterdam Conservatory, as well as at international courses.

She has participated at international festivals such as eclat, Darmstädter Ferienkurse, ISCM, Warsaw Autumn, Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik, worked with Neue Vo-calsolisten Stuttgart, SWR Vokalensemble, ensemble mosaik, ascolta, ensemble modern, AskoSchoenberg, Camerata Silesia, Silbersee, Bavarian Academy of Theater August Everding, Ludwik-Solski-Academy for performing arts in Krakow, LOH-Orchester, Thüringer Symphoniker. She was artist-in-residence at Villa Massimo in Rome, Residency for New Music Goethe Institute Canada, Academy Schloss Solitude, Cité internationale des arts in Paris and others. Anna was awarded the Christoph-and-Stephan-Kaske-Foundation Prize, Gaudeamus Award, Kunstpreis Berlin and Open Ear of Trillende Lucht Foundation.