Anastasia Kobekina

Cellist Anastasia Kobekina has won important prizes, including one at the International Tchaikovsky Competition. She has appeared with top orchestras internationally and has been signed to the Sony Classical label. Her father was the composer Vladimir Kobekin, and her family was musical. In 2014, Kobekina made her recording debut; she was heard with other young cellists on the album Focus Cello. In the late 2010s, she issued several digital albums with her father on small labels. She made her major label solo debut in 2019, joining the Bern Symphony Orchestra and conductor Kevin John Edusei on a recording of works by Shostakovich, Weinberg, and Kobekin. She released the recital album Ellipses in 2023, returning in 2024 with the album Venice. That year, she won the Leonard Bernstein Award at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival in Germany.