Since September 2026
Instructor since September 2026
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Joyful and solution-oriented piano lessons
From 132 C$ /h
If you're interested in discovering and understanding music, learning about new technical solutions, and gaining joy and inspiration for making music, then you've come to the right place, and you're very welcome!
The main focus of my teaching is understanding music as a language with its own fascinating laws, acquiring technical means that enable you to practice independently and efficiently, a safe way of memorizing, and developing your own musical approaches to interpretation.
It is very important to me to address your personal needs in my lessons. Together we will choose pieces that suit you and offer you both moments of success and just the right amount of new challenges to open up further worlds and possibilities.
I have taught masterclasses and master courses at conservatories and universities in Europe, Africa and Asia, have many years of experience as an internationally performing soloist and chamber musician, have recorded CDs and am a prize winner of international competitions.
In addition to regular piano lessons, I offer targeted, solution-oriented individual coaching for more experienced pianists, provide support with competition and exam preparation, and coach chamber music groups. Beginners interested in developing a solid technique and the desire to understand and explore music are also very welcome.
The main focus of my teaching is understanding music as a language with its own fascinating laws, acquiring technical means that enable you to practice independently and efficiently, a safe way of memorizing, and developing your own musical approaches to interpretation.
It is very important to me to address your personal needs in my lessons. Together we will choose pieces that suit you and offer you both moments of success and just the right amount of new challenges to open up further worlds and possibilities.
I have taught masterclasses and master courses at conservatories and universities in Europe, Africa and Asia, have many years of experience as an internationally performing soloist and chamber musician, have recorded CDs and am a prize winner of international competitions.
In addition to regular piano lessons, I offer targeted, solution-oriented individual coaching for more experienced pianists, provide support with competition and exam preparation, and coach chamber music groups. Beginners interested in developing a solid technique and the desire to understand and explore music are also very welcome.
Extra information
To make my classes accessible to people from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds, I offer reduced rates in exceptional cases, subject to availability. Please feel free to ask me about this if needed.
There is also the option of a reduced rate with monthly prepayment.
There is also the option of a reduced rate with monthly prepayment.
Location
At teacher's location :
- Wien Westbahnhof, Mariahilfer Straße, Wien, Österreich
About Me
To give you an idea of who I am and my career path, you can find my CV here:
Anna Magdalena Kokits began playing piano at the age of four, also received several years of violin lessons, and graduated with distinction in 2014 with a degree in piano performance from the Vienna Conservatory Private University (now the Music and Arts Private University of Vienna), where she studied under Alejandro Geberovich. She then pursued advanced studies in piano chamber music with Avedis Kouyoumjian at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.
Anna Magdalena Kokits performed with orchestras such as the Tonkünstler Orchestra of Lower Austria, the Moscow Virtuosi and the Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra at a young age and attracted attention early on as a prize winner of national and international competitions (including as a special prize winner of the Beethoven Piano Competition Vienna 2009).
Numerous concerts have repeatedly taken her to important concert halls, including the Musikverein Wien, the Wiener Konzerthaus and the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, as well as to festivals such as the Brahmsfest Mürzzuschlag, the Carinthian Summer, the Styriarte, the Quincena Musical de San Sebastián Festival, the Musical Summer in East Frisia, the Music Festival Schloss Weinzierl and the Festival St. Gallen.
Since 2006, Anna Magdalena Kokits has been teaching and coaching pianists both in long-term collaborations and in the context of masterclasses and master courses, for example at the International Music Meeting Center Haus Marteau in Lichtenberg, Germany; at the Academy of Arts of the University of Pristina, Kosovo; at the Cairo Conservatoire of Music, Egypt; at Nairobi University and Kenyatta University, Kenya, and the Conservatory of Music in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
Since 2024 she has been teaching at the Vienna Piano School, and she also participated in its International Summer School in 2025.
Anna Magdalena Kokits' curiosity about unknown or forgotten music has inspired her since her student days to include rarely heard pieces in her concerts. This includes, in particular, works by female composers as well as Jewish composers who were forced into exile and subsequently forgotten.
In her programming, she prefers to juxtapose works from the core piano repertoire with these (re)discoveries and also contemporary music. During the concerts, she uses explanatory and narrative commentary to create a connection between the emerging dialogues across eras and styles.
In addition to her solo career, she is devoted to chamber music. Even as a teenager, she intensively studied music for four and six hands, as well as for two pianos. From 2007 to 2014, she performed in a duo with cellist Alexander Gebert (formerly a member of the Altenberg Trio, now at the Detmold University of Music), with whom she gave two concerts annually at the Vienna Musikverein from 2009 to 2013, focusing on rare works of cello and piano literature. In 2012, they recorded a joint performance of cello sonatas by the Jewish-Austrian composers Karl Weigl, Erich Zeisl, Hans Gál, and Ernst Toch.
Other renowned chamber music partners with whom Anna Magdalena Kokits has a long-standing collaboration include Gidon Kremer, Dimitri Ashkenazy, Eduard Brunner, Herbert Kefer (Artis Quartet), Rudolf Leopold (Vienna String Sextet), Ingolf Turban, Paul Gulda, Christoph Koncz, Klaus Christa, Lily Francis, Alexey Stadler and the Bennewitz Quartet.
The catalyst for Anna Magdalena Kokits' active engagement with contemporary music was an encounter with Richard Dünser in 2008, which led to his work "The Garden of Desires" (2010), dedicated to Anna Magdalena Kokits and Alexander Gebert. Since then, she has collaborated with numerous composers. She is the dedicatee of several works and has performed and premiered music by, among others, Tomasz Skweres, Heinz Karl Gruber, Thomas Larcher, Helmut Schmidinger, Manuela Kerer, Kurt Schwertsik, Lukas Haselböck, Christoph Renhart, René Clemencic, Valentin Silvestrov, Philippe Hersant, and Vivian Fung.
In 2016, Anna Magdalena Kokits was chosen by the Austrian Foreign Ministry as Austria's representative performer for new music within the framework of the music promotion program NASOM (New Austrian Sound of Music).
Anna Magdalena Kokits' encounter with and fascination with the music of Ernst Toch (1887-1964) resulted in a CD recording of the composer's piano works for the Capriccio label. The recording, released in 2017, includes several world premiere recordings and features liner notes written and researched by the artist herself. As part of this recording project, Kokits immersed herself in the subject and history of Jewish composers in exile. Her research into Toch's life and work led her, among other places, to the composer's estate at UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles) and to New York for interviews with Toch's grandson, Lawrence Weschler.
Anna Magdalena Kokits views her international concert career, which in recent years has taken her to Germany, France, Belgium, Great Britain, Finland, Norway, Spain, Italy, Hungary, Slovenia, Latvia, Poland, Greece, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Russia, Mexico, Israel, Palestine, Egypt, Kenya, South Africa, China, Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Qatar, Canada, the Netherlands, Slovakia, Switzerland, Kosovo, and the USA, as a platform for creating cultural and artistic exchange. She often combines her concert tours with teaching masterclasses, visiting schools and universities as well as cultural institutions and events, and performing with musicians from the respective countries.
Anna Magdalena Kokits began playing piano at the age of four, also received several years of violin lessons, and graduated with distinction in 2014 with a degree in piano performance from the Vienna Conservatory Private University (now the Music and Arts Private University of Vienna), where she studied under Alejandro Geberovich. She then pursued advanced studies in piano chamber music with Avedis Kouyoumjian at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.
Anna Magdalena Kokits performed with orchestras such as the Tonkünstler Orchestra of Lower Austria, the Moscow Virtuosi and the Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra at a young age and attracted attention early on as a prize winner of national and international competitions (including as a special prize winner of the Beethoven Piano Competition Vienna 2009).
Numerous concerts have repeatedly taken her to important concert halls, including the Musikverein Wien, the Wiener Konzerthaus and the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, as well as to festivals such as the Brahmsfest Mürzzuschlag, the Carinthian Summer, the Styriarte, the Quincena Musical de San Sebastián Festival, the Musical Summer in East Frisia, the Music Festival Schloss Weinzierl and the Festival St. Gallen.
Since 2006, Anna Magdalena Kokits has been teaching and coaching pianists both in long-term collaborations and in the context of masterclasses and master courses, for example at the International Music Meeting Center Haus Marteau in Lichtenberg, Germany; at the Academy of Arts of the University of Pristina, Kosovo; at the Cairo Conservatoire of Music, Egypt; at Nairobi University and Kenyatta University, Kenya, and the Conservatory of Music in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
Since 2024 she has been teaching at the Vienna Piano School, and she also participated in its International Summer School in 2025.
Anna Magdalena Kokits' curiosity about unknown or forgotten music has inspired her since her student days to include rarely heard pieces in her concerts. This includes, in particular, works by female composers as well as Jewish composers who were forced into exile and subsequently forgotten.
In her programming, she prefers to juxtapose works from the core piano repertoire with these (re)discoveries and also contemporary music. During the concerts, she uses explanatory and narrative commentary to create a connection between the emerging dialogues across eras and styles.
In addition to her solo career, she is devoted to chamber music. Even as a teenager, she intensively studied music for four and six hands, as well as for two pianos. From 2007 to 2014, she performed in a duo with cellist Alexander Gebert (formerly a member of the Altenberg Trio, now at the Detmold University of Music), with whom she gave two concerts annually at the Vienna Musikverein from 2009 to 2013, focusing on rare works of cello and piano literature. In 2012, they recorded a joint performance of cello sonatas by the Jewish-Austrian composers Karl Weigl, Erich Zeisl, Hans Gál, and Ernst Toch.
Other renowned chamber music partners with whom Anna Magdalena Kokits has a long-standing collaboration include Gidon Kremer, Dimitri Ashkenazy, Eduard Brunner, Herbert Kefer (Artis Quartet), Rudolf Leopold (Vienna String Sextet), Ingolf Turban, Paul Gulda, Christoph Koncz, Klaus Christa, Lily Francis, Alexey Stadler and the Bennewitz Quartet.
The catalyst for Anna Magdalena Kokits' active engagement with contemporary music was an encounter with Richard Dünser in 2008, which led to his work "The Garden of Desires" (2010), dedicated to Anna Magdalena Kokits and Alexander Gebert. Since then, she has collaborated with numerous composers. She is the dedicatee of several works and has performed and premiered music by, among others, Tomasz Skweres, Heinz Karl Gruber, Thomas Larcher, Helmut Schmidinger, Manuela Kerer, Kurt Schwertsik, Lukas Haselböck, Christoph Renhart, René Clemencic, Valentin Silvestrov, Philippe Hersant, and Vivian Fung.
In 2016, Anna Magdalena Kokits was chosen by the Austrian Foreign Ministry as Austria's representative performer for new music within the framework of the music promotion program NASOM (New Austrian Sound of Music).
Anna Magdalena Kokits' encounter with and fascination with the music of Ernst Toch (1887-1964) resulted in a CD recording of the composer's piano works for the Capriccio label. The recording, released in 2017, includes several world premiere recordings and features liner notes written and researched by the artist herself. As part of this recording project, Kokits immersed herself in the subject and history of Jewish composers in exile. Her research into Toch's life and work led her, among other places, to the composer's estate at UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles) and to New York for interviews with Toch's grandson, Lawrence Weschler.
Anna Magdalena Kokits views her international concert career, which in recent years has taken her to Germany, France, Belgium, Great Britain, Finland, Norway, Spain, Italy, Hungary, Slovenia, Latvia, Poland, Greece, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Russia, Mexico, Israel, Palestine, Egypt, Kenya, South Africa, China, Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Qatar, Canada, the Netherlands, Slovakia, Switzerland, Kosovo, and the USA, as a platform for creating cultural and artistic exchange. She often combines her concert tours with teaching masterclasses, visiting schools and universities as well as cultural institutions and events, and performing with musicians from the respective countries.
Education
- Vienna Conservatory Private University (Piano Performance, graduated with distinction)
- University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (advanced chamber music studies)
- Advanced masterclasses and master courses
- University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (advanced chamber music studies)
- Advanced masterclasses and master courses
Experience / Qualifications
Since 2006 I have been teaching pianists both in long-term collaborations and in the context of masterclasses and master courses, for example at the International Music Meeting Center Haus Marteau in Lichtenberg, Germany; at the Academy of Arts of the University of Pristina, Kosovo; at the Cairo Conservatoire of Music, Egypt; at Nairobi University and Kenyatta University, Kenya, and the Conservatory of Music in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
Since 2024 I have been teaching at the Vienna Piano School, and I also participated in their International Summer School in 2025.
Since 2024 I have been teaching at the Vienna Piano School, and I also participated in their International Summer School in 2025.
Age
Teenagers (13-17 years old)
Adults (18-64 years old)
Seniors (65+ years old)
Student level
Beginner
Intermediate
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Duration
60 minutes
The class is taught in
German
English
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