Anastasia Batrakova

Anastasia Batrakova was born in 1991 in Alma-Ata (Kazakhstan). She graduated from the Gnessins Music School (Gennady Shamin's class), then the P.I. Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory and assistantship-internship there (Professor Valery Popov's Class). She polished her playing in international summer music schools, took part in masterclasses of famous professors such as Dag Jensen, Klaus Thunemann, Matthias Ratz, Carlo Colombo, Stefano Canuti, Giorgio Versigli, Frank Forst, Joseph Auer, Magnus Nilsson.

She is the winner of the Arts of the 21st Century International Competition (Kyiv – Vorzel, 2006, 2007), the First All-Russian Woodwind Instrument Competition as a member of the Conoro Quintet, the International Summer Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna in the Ignaz Pleyel nomination (2013), the Fifth International Moscow Wind and Percussion Competition as a member of the Conoro Quintet (2013, Moscow), She is also a laureate of the Grand Prize Virtuoso International Competition (London, 2016).

In 2012-2017, she was a soloist of the orchestra of the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theater. Then, for two years, she played solo parts in the Mariinsky Theater Orchestra. Since 2019, she is deputy concertmaster of the bassoon group in the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia directed by Vladimir Spivakov.

She is the organizer and constant member of the Conoro Woodwind Quintet and a soloist of the Alta Capella ensemble of ancient music. She also works with the Norwegian Arktisk Sinfonietta ensemble of modern music and the Indian Symphony Orchestra based in Mumbai.