Born in Russia, Anastasia Kobekina began playing the cello aged 4. She went on to fine tune her skills in Germany with Frans Helmerson and Professor Jens Peter Maintz then studied Baroque cello with Kristin von der Goltz in Frankfurt. She plays a 1698 Stradivarius cello, generously loaned by the Stradivari Foundation (Habisreutinger).

Described by Le Figaro as a “musician beyond compare”, Anastasia Kobekina is renowned for her extraordinary technique. As a soloist, she has performed with internationally renowned ensembles including the Vienna Symphony and Moscow Tchaikovsky Symphony orchestras and the BBC Philharmonic.

In 2023-24, her season included concerts with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Jakob Hrůša, the Gstaad Festival Orchestra, the Rheingau Musik Festival and many others. She was also invited to perform with the Paris Chamber Orchestra for the Finale of Haydn’s Concerto in C Major for ‘Fauteuils d’Orchestre’ on France TV.

Anastasia Kobekina is an exclusive Sony Classical International recording artist and her first album, Venice, was released in February 2024.

She also won a prize at the XVI International Tchaikovsky Competition in 2019 and at the Enesco Festival in 2016. She was named a BBC ‘New Generation Artist’ for the period 2018-2021 and was honoured in 2022 by the Borletti-Buitoni Trust. In October 2024 she was named ‘Revelation of the Year’ by Opus Klassik.

Languages spoken: German, English, Russian 

Photo credit: Johanna Bergeron