Her mother a piano teacher, her father a composer: music played a formative role in Anastasia Kobekina's childhood in Ekaterinburg. The cellist played her first orchestral solo concert at the age of six and was accepted to the Moscow Conservatory at the age of twelve. In 2012, she began her studies at Kronberg Academy; Germany has been her adopted home ever since. In 2015, Anastasia Kobekina won first prize at the prestigious TONALi music competition, from 2018 to 2021 she was a BBC Radio New Generation Artist, in June 2019 she was awarded the bronze medal at the Tchaikovsky Competition in St. Peterburg and in 2022 she became a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Artist - this is a just a sample of the many tangible accomplishments of the young artist, who has performed with major orchestras such as the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra, Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, BBC Philharmonic, National Orchestra d'Ile de France, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Kremerata Baltica, Wiener Symphoniker and Symphoniker Hamburg. Among the concerts scheduled for the 2023/24 season are performances with the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich and Paavo Järvi, the Czech Philharmonic and Jakub Hrůša, the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, the Gstaad Festival Orchestra and the Orchester National de Belgique.

As a chamber musician, Anastasia Kobekina has collaborated with a.o. Lars Vogt, Isabelle Faust, Denis Matzuev, Fazıl Say, Vladimir Spivakov, Gidon Kremer and Sir András Schiff.

Her latest CD recording »Venice« (Sony Classical) is a musical portrait of her favourite city, Venice, beginning with Monteverdi's »Lamento d'Arianna« and ending with variations of this piece composed by her father Vladimir Kobekin.

This summer, Anastasia Kobekina will be honoured with the Leonard Bernstein Award at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival.