OUR SPECIAL GUEST
ANASTASIA VOLTCHOK – Piano(Swiss)
„Anastasia Voltchok is a representative of the great Russian pianistic tradition. Her playing is
powerful, vigorous and volcanic. Not only does her technique appear to be boundless but it
seems that Richter’s spirit is in the hall.“
Rocco Zacheo, Le Temps, Geneva
Born in Moscow to a family of professional pianists Anastasia Voltchok began her piano studies at the age of four. She studied with Evgeny Malinin and Larissa Dedova at the Moscow Tschaikovsky Conservatory, with Rudolf Buchbinder at the Academy of Music in Basel, Switzerland and with Santiago Rodriguez at the University of Maryland, USA, where she was awarded a Doctor of Musical Arts degree.
Since her orchestral debut with Haydn piano concerto at the age eight Anastasia Voltchok has performed extensively throughout Western and Eastern Europe and the United States. Anastasia Voltchok performs with conductors such as Valery Gergiev (Mariinsky-Theatre Orchestra), Mikhail Pletnev (Bamberger Symphoniker), Mario Venzago, John Neschling, Michal Nesterowicz, Dennis Russell Davies, Howard Griffiths. As a recitalist she performs at New York’s Lincoln Center, Tonhalle Zurich, Santa Cecilia in Rome and Victoria Hall in Geneva. She has been 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. Highlights of the current season are collaborations with Roman Kofman and the National Philharmony in Kiev as well as a tour with Gidon Kremer and the Kremerata Baltica. Among her many awards are the First Prize at the International Piano Competition in Senigallia, Italy. First Prize and Gold Medal at the International World Piano Competition in Cincinnati, USA in 2003. Ms Voltchok’s performances have been broadcast all over Europe and in the United States. Anastasia Voltchok has recorded for NOVALIS (Schubert/Liszt, Prokofiev) and for GENUIN (Chopin, Schumann, Rachmaninoff). Her latest release was J.S. Bach’s Goldberg variations in October 2014 for Solomusica.