Hailed as an "unrivaled musician" by Le Figaro, Anastasia Kobekina captivates audiences with her stunning musicality, multi-layered interpretations, and charismatic stage presence. She is the recipient of the 2024 Leonard Bernstein Award.
In May 2023, Anastasia signed an exclusive recording contract with Sony Classical. Her debut album Venice was released in February 2024, followed by the prestigious Opus Klassik Award in October 2024. Her next album, featuring the solo cello suites by J.S. Bach, is set to be released in September 2025. In February 2025, the German broadcaster ARD released a four-part documentary about her titled Anastasia Kobekina – Jetzt oder nie (“Now or Never”).
She made her acclaimed BBC Proms debut in 2024 with the Czech Philharmonic under Jakub Hrůša, performing Dvořák’s Cello Concerto. In 2025, she returns to the Royal Albert Hall for two more appearances: on August 8 in From Dark Till Dawn, curated by Anna Lapwood, and on September 10 with Shostakovich’s First Cello Concerto, performed alongside the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under Delyana Lazarova.
In 2024, Anastasia was the focus artist of the Rheingau Music Festival. In 2025, she will serve as Artist-in-Residence at the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Beethovenfest Bonn.
Highlights of the 2025/26 season include performances with the Czech Philharmonic under Semyon Bychkov, the Konzerthausorchester Berlin under Iván Fischer, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic, and the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields.
A special highlight will be the world premiere of a new cello concerto by Bryce Dessner, written especially for Anastasia.
Her performances have taken her to leading venues and festivals worldwide, including Wigmore Hall, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Lincoln Center, Konzerthaus Vienna, Berlin Philharmonie, Tonhalle Zürich, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Gstaad Menuhin Festival, Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, Rheingau Musik Festival, Beethovenfest Bonn, Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, and the Verbier Festival.
She has worked with renowned conductors such as Semyon Bychkov, Paavo Järvi, Jakub Hrůša, Krzysztof Penderecki, Heinrich Schiff, Omer Meir Wellber, Vasily Petrenko, Charles Dutoit.
Anastasia is a prizewinner at international competitions including the Tchaikovsky Competition (2019) and the Enescu Competition (2016). From 2018 to 2021, she was a BBC New Generation Artist and received the Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award in 2022.
Born in Russia, Anastasia began cello lessons at the age of four. She studied with Frans Helmerson and Jens-Peter Maintz in Germany, with Jérôme Pernoo in Paris, and completed her baroque cello studies with Kristin von der Goltz in Frankfurt. She performs on a 1717 “Bonamy Dobree-Suggia" cello by Antonio Stradivari, generously loaned by the Stradivari Foundation Habisreutinger-Huggler-Coray.