Graduate of the Leningrad State Conservatory (Professor Emmanuel Fishman). Graduate of the Vienna University of Music and Performing Arts. Leading soloist of the Mosconcert agency. Head of master classes - L. B. Evgrafov, A. K. Fedorchenko, A. Ya. Gruzinsky, V. Ya. Feigin and others. Organizer of international festivals and master classes in Germany, Austria and Armenia. On February 25, 2009, by decision of the Federal President of Austria, he was awarded the title of professor. On June 6, 2022, he was awarded the Dostoevsky Order for outstanding achievements as a journalist. Founder of the "Association for the Promotion of Art through the Fusion of Music and Painting" in Vienna.

AWARDS AND DIPLOMAS, Second Prize at the 2021 International Medici Music Competition, Gold Prize at the 2021 World Classical Music Awards. She currently lives and works in Vienna. Her international performances include a concert tour of Japan and South Korea, comprising a total of 15 concerts: three concerts at the Tokyo Concert Hall, Osaka Symphony Hall, and performances in the cities of Yokohama, Hamamatsu, Chiba, Biwako, and Machida. She also gave two concerts in Seoul at the recently opened Lotte Concert Hall.

A graduate of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Belgium (KASK & Conservatorium, Ghent), she is an associate professor of flute at the De Pinto School of Music and the Lochristi School of Music in Belgium. She is also a member of the ICTUS contemporary music ensemble in Brussels and serves as an assistant at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Belgium, specializing in "Contemporary Academic Music: Chamber Ensemble." Anna is one of the founders and served as the director of the contemporary music ensemble InterText from 2011 to 2021. She is the creator of the concert series "New Music in the Freedom Hall" and the director of the contemporary music festival "XX-XXI." As a flutist, she has collaborated with many orchestras and conductors, including Philippe Herreweghe, Dirk Brosse, Michael Tilkin, Patrick Debrabandere, Martijn Dendievel, Pavel Klinichev, Mikhail Granovskiy, Fabio Mastrangelo, Anton Shaburov, and others.

Since 2019 Melina Harrer has been holding a position as a pedagogue at the Franz Schubert Conservatory Vienna.
She gave her debut as a soloist at the age of twelve in a series of concerts of the CyprusState Youth Orchestra in Cyprus and Greece. Two years later Melina performed as a soloist with the Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra at the Grafenegger Schlosskonzerte.
Melina Harrer has won prizes at the Austrian national competitions Prima la Musica in Vienna, Eisenstadt and Innsbruck. 1996 she also won a first prize at the International Competition Concorso Internazionale di Musica Città di Stresa, in Italy. In 1998 she was awarded the firstprize at the competition of the Vienna Music Gymnasium. In the same year shereceived an AustrianState Scholarship and won a prize in the categoryviolin-piano duet at the International Giulio Viozzi Chamber Music Competition in Triest. In 2002 she wasselected by the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation to be amongst the artists supported through participation in the programme Music Live Now.
Melina Harrer has performed in Austria, Italy, Germany, Hungary, Great Britain, France, Greece, Turkey, Yugoslavia, Cyprus, Turkmenistan, China and Japan.
She was concertmaster of the Anton Weber Orchestra Vienna, and the internationally constituted Cyprus Youth Symphony Orchestra at the openingconcerts of the International Kypria festivals 2007 and 2008.
2010-2018 Melina Harrer held a positionat the Musical Talent Development Program. It was the first programme founded by the Cypriot state to promote young, talented string players, supportedby the mentors Martha Argerichand Ivry Gitlis.During those years Melina specializes in teaching beginners from an earlyage. In June of 2016 one of her pupilswon a first prize at the 6th International Festival of Talents/International Violin Competition Váša Přihoda in Budějovice, Czech Republic. 2017 Harrer was a guest lecturer at the international orchestra camp Camp Styriain Schladming, Austria. In 2018/19 she taught at Amadeus International SchoolVienna.