ANASTASIA CALMUS

Anastasia Calmus was born in Ukraine in a family of artists. Her musical talent was revealed in early childhood when at the age of five she started playing the piano. A promising young musician, she became a prize-winner of several international competitions, and was also the featured soloist with various symphony orchestras.

 

Anastasia continued her musical education in Moscow, at the Gnesin State College of Music in the class of professor Maxim Zheleznov. After she successfully graduated college she made her own Theater and Music project with actor Dmitry Bozin where she was playing her own compositions and classical repertoire all over Russia and in Estonia.

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In 2009 she was accepted to Moscow Tchaikovsky State Conservatory in the class of renowned pianist and  Professor Pavel Nersessian from where she graduated in 2014 with high distinction.

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In 2014 she started international touring as a soloist and with double bass player Catalin Rotaru(USA). They performed in Arizona State University (USA), Brazil festival “Virtuosi XVII”, Hong Kong Bass Festival, Festival in Mexico (Tijuana, Baja California) and etc.

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In 2015 Anastasia was accepted to Conservatory named F.A. Bonporti in Trento (Italy) in the class of honored pianist and Professor Massimiliano Mainolfi for her Master degree. During the studies in Italy she was performing as a soloist with  Orchestra of Trento Conservatory, played solo performance in Masonic center in Madison (USA), performed in Dubuque Music College in Iowa (USA), Hochschule fur Musik Nurnberg (Germany), Festival “Omaggio all’Arte pianistica di Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli”(Italy) and other great stages.

 

Since 2019 she lives in France and continues her career as a soloist and in duo with famous French cellist Julie Sevilla-Fraysse.