Anastasia Voltchok
Born in Moscow to a family of professional pianists Anastasia Voltchok began piano studies at age 4. She studied with Evgeny Malinin and Larissa Dedova at the Moscow Tschaikowsky Conservatory, with Rudolf Buchbinder at the Academy of Music in Basel, Switzerland and with Santiago Rodriguez at the University of Maryland, USA (Doctor of Musical Arts). Since her orchestral debut with Haydn piano concerto at age 8 Anastasia Voltchok has performed extensively throughout Western and Eastern Europe and the United States. Recently Anastasia Voltchok appeared as a soloist with Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra St. Petersburg, Mario Venzago and the Indianapolis
Symphony Orchestra, Mikhail Pletnev and the Bamberger Symphoniker. As a recitalist she has performed at New York’s Lincoln Center, Tonhalle Zurich, Santa Cecilia in Rome and Victoria Hall in Geneva. She was a guest artist at the Moscow Easter Festival, La Roque d’Anthéron Piano Festival in France, and the Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli Piano Festival in Bergamo and Brescia, Italy.
Current highlights are collaborations with Mikhail Pletnev, Mario Venzago, John Neschling, Valery Gergiev, Michal Nesterowicz and Dennis Russell Davies. Among her many awards are the First Prize at the International Piano Competition in Senigallia, Italy. First Prize and the Gold Medal at the International World Piano Competition in Cincinnati, USA in 2003.
Ms. Voltchok’s performances have been broadcast by Swiss National Radio, RAI TV, Italy, France Musique, in Russia, United Kingdom, Germany and in the United States.