In recent seasons, Rakitina has worked with orchestras such as BBC Symphony Orchestra, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Dresdner Philharmonie, NDR Radiophilharmonie, Gothenburg Symphony, Norwegian National Opera Orchestra, Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, and Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg. In North America, she has appeared with notable orchestras such as the Baltimore, Cincinnati, Houston, Utah, and Vancouver Symphony Orchestras. 

She regularly collaborates with soloists including Joshua Bell, Renaud Capuçon, Gautier Capucon, Augustin Hadelich, Lucas & Arthur Jussen, Gil Shaham, Christian Tetzlaff, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Jan Vogler, and Alisa Weilerstein. 

She continues to champion music by today’s composers including Anna Clyne, Elena Langer, and Ellen Reid. Rakitina was Assistant Conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra from 2019 to 2023, where she was only the second woman in the orchestra’s history to hold the position. 

Previously, she was a Dudamel Fellow at the Los Angeles Philharmonic in the 2019-20 season. Her talents have been recognised through multiple awards, including second prize at the Malko Competition 2018, and prizes at the Deutscher Dirigentenpreis 2017 and the TCO International Conducting Competition Taipei 2015.

Anna Rakitina grew up in a musical family and began her education as a violinist before studying conducting at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory with Stanislav Dyachenko and later in Hamburg with Prof. Ulrich Windfuhr. She was a finalist of ‘Das kritische Orchester’ in 2018 in Berlin and participated in Lucerne Festival Academy’s conducting fellowship scheme led by Alan Gilbert and Bernard Haitink. 

She has attended masterclasses with Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Vladimir Jurowski, Johannes Schlaefli, and the 2022 Ammodo Masterclass conducting Concertgebouworkest led by Fabio Luisi. Anna Rakitina lives in Berlin with her family.

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