Anastasia Kobekina

External videos
Performances at the 16th International Tchaikovsky Competition
First Round Piatti – Caprice No. 7 Bach – Cello Suite No. 6 Tchaikovsky – Pezzo capriccioso Prokofiev – Cello Sonata
Semifinals Schubert – Arpeggione Sonata Stravinsky – "Suite Italienne" from Pulcinella Popper – Elfentanz Kobekin – Narrenschiff
Finals Tchaikovsky – Variations on a Rococo Theme Elgar – Cello Concerto

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. She studied with Jérôme Pernoo at the Conservatoire de Paris and at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts with Kristin von der Goltz.^[1][2]

She was a finalist at Eurovision Young Musicians 2008. In 2019, she won third prize at the 16th International Tchaikovsky Competition.^[1][2]

In 2024, she performed at the Rheingau Musik Festival.^[3] The same year, she received the Leonard Bernstein Award.^[4]

Kobekina has performed since 2021 on the 1698 'De Kermadec-Bläss' cello by Antonio Stradivari,^[5] having previously played a 1743 cello by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini.^[2]