„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 seams that Richter’s spirit is in the hall.“
Rocco Zacheo, Le Temps, Geneva

„Anastasia Voltchok: an excellent New York recital debut at Lincoln Center.“
Harris Goldsmith for American Record Guide

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, College Park, USA where she was awarded a Doctor of Musical Arts degree.

Since her orchestral debut under Vladimir Ponkin 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 Kirov Orchestra of the Mariinsky-Theatre St. Petersburg, Mario Venzago and the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Basel Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, Zurich Chamber Orchestra, the Musikkollegium Winterthur, the London Mozart Players together with such conductors as Hans-Peter Frank, Howard Griffiths, Cornelius Meister, Thomas Hanus. As a recitalist she has also performed at New York’s Lincoln Center, the Great Hall of St. Petersburg Philharmony, the Tonhalle Zurich, the Gulbenkian-Foundation in Lisbon, the Santa Cecilia in Rome and the Victoria Hall in Geneva. As guest artist Ms. Voltchok has appeared at the Moscow Easter Festival, the Toradze Piano Festival, the Wiliam Kapell Festival, La Roque d’Anthéron Piano Festival in France, the Sofia Music Weeks and the International Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli Piano Festival in Bergamo and Brescia, Italy.

Highlights in the near future include collaborations with such conductors as Mikhail Pletnev, Mario Venzago and John Neschling as well as the performance of Rodion Shchedrin’s second piano concerto with the Mariinsky-Orchestra and Valery Gergiev.

Ms. Voltchok is a winner of many awards and prizes, including First Prize at the International Piano Competition in Senigallia, Italy. In July 2003 Anastasia Voltchok was awarded First Prize and the Gold Medal at the International World Piano Competition in Cincinnati, USA.

Ms. Voltchok’s performances have been broadcast by Swiss National Radio, Russian Radio and TV, RAI-TV in Italy. France Musique, in Germany, in the UK and in the USA. The new CD of Anastasia Voltchok with works by Prokofiev has been released recently.