Music played a central role in Anastasia Kobekina’s life from the very beginning: her mother is a piano teacher and her father is the composer Vladimir Kobekin. The cellist gave her first solo orchestra concert at the age of six and was accepted to the renowned Moscow conservatory at the age of twelve. She continued her education at Kronberg Academy in 2012, when she chose to make Germany her home. In 2015, Anastasia Kobekina won first prize at the prestigious TONALi music competition. From 2018 to 2021 she was BBC Radio 3’s »New Generation Artist«, in 2019 she won the bronze medal at the Tchaikovsky Competition in St. Petersburg and in 2022 she was chosen as a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Artist. In the summer of 2024, she received the Leonard Bernstein Award of the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, sponsored by the Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe.

She has performed with the world’s leading orchestras, including the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra, the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, the BBC Philharmonic, the Orchestre National d’Île-de-France, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, the Kremerata Baltica, the Wiener Symphoniker, the Symphoniker Hamburg, the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse and the Gstaad Festival Orchestra.

She is also in demand as a chamber musician and has worked with Lars Vogt, Isabelle Faust, Denis Matzuev, Fazıl Say, Vladimir Spivakov, Gidon Kremer and Sir András Schiff.

Her current album »Venice« (Sony Classical) is a musical portrait of Venice, the city of her dreams: it begins with Monteverdi’s »Lamento d’Arianna« and ends with variations on this work – composed by Vladimir Kobekin.