The determining value in the timbre of an instrument depends on this detail. We made bocals from brass, copper, and silver.
The production of wind instruments is one of our priority goals and we are hardly working to achieve it!
The determining value in the timbre of an instrument depends on this detail. We made bocals from brass, copper, and silver.
The production of wind instruments is one of our priority goals and we are hardly working to achieve it!
Principal Bassoon (Concertmaster)
Anastasia Batrakova was born in 1991 in Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan. She began her musical education at Ryazan Children's Art School No. 5, majoring in piano and bassoon. She then graduated from the Gnessin Moscow Secondary Special Music School (class of Gennady Shamin), the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory, and the conservatory's assistantship-internship (class of Professor Valery Popov). She participated in masterclasses with renowned professors including Dag Jensen, Klaus Thunemann, Matthias Rácz, Carlo Colombo, Stefano Canuti, and others.
She is a laureate of several international competitions in Moscow and other Russian cities, as well as the Grand Prize Virtuoso in London. At the International Summer Academy of the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (ISA), she was awarded a special prize for the best performance of Ignaz Pleyel's concerto.
In 2023, she released a music video of Vivaldi's aria "Vedrò con mio diletto" from the opera Giustino, arranged for bassoon and early music ensemble. She is currently preparing a single for release. She continually refines her skills on historical bassoons of the Baroque and Classical periods.
From 2009 to 2024, she was a guest soloist with the State Academic Chamber Orchestra of Russia; since 2025, she has been a full member of the ensemble.
From 2012 to 2017, she performed with the Orchestra of the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre. From 2017 to 2019, she was a member of the Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra.
Since 2019, she has served as Assistant Principal Bassoon of the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia; she is currently Principal Bassoon (Concertmaster).
Since 2017, she has been a guest soloist with the Norwegian contemporary music ensemble Arktisk Sinfonietta and the Symphony Orchestra of India in Mumbai.
As a soloist, she has given over 50 concerts with leading Russian and international orchestras in prestigious venues, including the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall, the Mariinsky Theatre Concert Hall, the Helsinki Music Centre, the House of the Blackheads in Tallinn, and the Kulturcasino in Bern. She has collaborated with renowned conductors and soloists such as Valery Gergiev, Vladimir Yurovsky, Alexey Utkin, Valentin Uryupin, Jestyn Davies, Lawrence Cummings, André Casale, Dmitry Sinkovsky, Vladislav Lavrik, Andrey Rubtsov, Denis Shapovalov, and Pavel Smelkov.
She has participated in Russian premieres of works by Giya Kancheli and Kirk O'Riordan. She has given masterclasses for young musicians in cities across Russia, Armenia, Switzerland, and Montenegro.
Laureate of several international competitions (Moscow and other Russian cities)
Grand Prize Virtuoso (London)
Special Prize for the best performance of Ignaz Pleyel's concerto (ISA Vienna)
The Atelier Goncharov bassoon is a new Russian-made instrument. Experienced engineers worked on the creation, step by step creating and upgrading parts.
Soloist of the Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra
Soloist of the Moscow State Academic Symphony Orchestra
Bassoonist of the Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra
Principal Bassoon (Concertmaster) of the Nizhny Novgorod State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater of A.S. Pushkin
Accompanist of the trombone group of the Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra of the Russian Federation
Soloist of the State President Kremlin Orchestra of the Russian Federation
Honored Artist of Russia, the creator of the trombone quartet of the Russian National Orchestra
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