Anastasia Kobekina portrait

Anastasia Kobekina

Anastasia Kobekina is a popular Classical artist, born on .

Anastasia Kobekina (Russian: Анастасия Кобекина; born 26 August 1994) is a Russian cellist. In 2019 she won third prize at the 16th International Tchaikovsky Competition. Kobekina was born in 1994 in Yekaterinburg, Russia, into a family of musicians: her father is the composer Vladimir Kobekin. She received her first cello lessons at the age of four. In 2006, she was accepted into the Moscow Conservatory, and in 2016 continued her education with Jens Peter Maintz at the Berlin University of the Arts. .

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