Anna Magdalena Kokits was born in Vienna in 1988. She received her first piano lessons at the age of four and just a few years later she found her ideal teacher and mentor in Alejandro Geberovich, with whom she completed her studies at the Konservatorium Wien Privatuniversität with honors in 2013.
As a prizewinner of numerous national and international competitions, she soon attracted attention and performed as a soloist with orchestras such as the Tonkünstler Orchestra of Lower Austria and the Moscow Virtuosi at a young age. In addition to pursuing her solo career, which quickly made her a welcome guest at festivals in many European countries (including Carinthischer Sommer, Styriarte, International Brahms Festival Mürzzuschlag, Quincena Musical de San Sebastián and Festival St. Gallen), she discovered her love of chamber music early on: from 2007 to 2014, cellist Alexander Gebert was her duo partner, with whom she regularly gave concerts at the Vienna Musikverein. This successful collaboration is documented, among other things, by the joint recording of the cello sonatas of Hans Gál, Ernst Toch, Karl Weigl and Erich Zeisl. In addition, she performs with renowned fellow musicians such as Dimitri Ashkenazy, Christoph Koncz, Eduard Brunner, Chen Halevi, Lars Wouters van den Oudenweijer, Herbert Kefer and the Bennewitz Quartet.
Anna Magdalena Kokits has performed as a soloist and chamber musician in France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Great Britain, Finland, Norway, Spain, Italy, Hungary, Slovenia, Kosovo, Poland, Russia, Israel, Egypt, Mexico, China, Korea, Japan, Qatar, the USA and Canada and often combines her concert tours with master classes for young musicians.
The pianist is consistently committed to contemporary music, working closely with composers Richard Dünser, Tomasz Skweres, Helmut Schmidinger, Thomas Larcher, HK “Nali” Gruber, Christoph Renhart, Lukas Haselböck and Manuela Kerer, and has commissioned several works.
In addition, Anna Magdalena Kokits devotes herself with special interest to unknown or forgotten works alongside the standard repertoire: Her recording of piano works by the Jewish-Austrian composer Ernst Toch (1887-1964) was released in June 2017 on the Capriccio label.
Recently, the musician performed with the Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra in Doha and with Gidon Kremer in Latvia.