ANASTASIA

KOBEKINA

With a broad repertoire ranging from baroque to contemporary music on modern and historical instruments, Anastasia Kobekina has established herself as one of the most exciting cellists of the younger generation.

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As a soloist, Anastasia has performed with world-renowned orchestras such as the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, the Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Philharmonic, Kremerata Baltica, the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, the Moscow Virtuosi, the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra Moscow and under the direction of Krzysztov Penderecki, Valery Gergiev, Heinrich Schiff, Omer Meir Wellber, Vladimir Spivakov and Dmitrij Kitajenko.

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Highlights of the 2020/21 season include debuts with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra under Vasily Petrenko, the Orchestre National de Lille, the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra (OBC), the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, the Kanagawa Philharmonic as well as recital debuts at the Verbier Festival and the Gstaad Menuhin Festival. In June 2019, Anastasia won the bronze medal at the XVI International Tchaikovsky Competition in St. Petersburg. At the Swiss winter music festival “Sommets musicaux de Gstaad”, she also received the Prix Thierry Scherz and the Prix André Hoffmann, an award that includes a recording with orchestra for the Swiss record label Claves (released in April 2019). Kobekina was a BBC New Generation Artist from 2018-2021.

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Born into a family of musicians in Russia, she received her first cello lessons at the age of four. After completing her studies in Moscow, she was invited to study at the Kronberg Academy in Germany with Frans Helmerson. She continued her studies at the Universität der Künste in Berlin (Prof. Jens-Peter Maintz) and then at the Paris Conservatory with Jerome Pernoo. She is currently doing her postgraduate studies in baroque violoncello with Kristin von der Goltz at the Frankfurt Hochschule.

Anastasia Kobekina plays on a cello by Antonio Stradivari from 1698, which is made available to her by the Stradivari Foundation Habisreutinger-Huggler-Coray.