Anastasia Yasko received her musical education in the Moscow Gnessins Music School in the class of Tatiana Shklovskaya, after which she studied at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory with Vera Gornostaeva and in Salzburg at the Mozarteum University with Rolf Plagge and Jacques Rouvier. Since 2018 she has been teaching as an assistant in the class of Rolf Plagge at the Mozarteum University. She performs in Russia, Ukraine, Germany, Austria, Italy, Spain, France, Portugal and Japan. In January 2021 her debut album "20th Сentury Russian Piano Sonatas" was released by ARS Produktion.
Prizes & Awards
1st prize at "Felix Mendelson-Bartoldi International Competition" (Moscow, Russia, 2003) 1st prize at "The 6th International Igumnov Competition for young pianists" (Lipetsk, Russia, 2005) 2nd prize at "The 7th International Art Competition "Sribni Dzvin" (Uzhgorod, Ukraine, 2006) 3rd prize at "The 9th International Vladimir Krainev Competition” (Kharkov, Ukraine, 2008) Laureate of "The 14th Moscow International Young Soloists Festival (Moscow, Russia, 2008) 1st prize and Special Jurisprudence at "The Romantic Music Festival for Young Musicians Dedicated to Frederic Chopin" (Moscow, Russia, 2008) Special Prize of the "Moscow Culture Committee" and with the "Guzik Foundation Prize" (San Francisco, USA, 2009) 3rd prize at the "International Flame Competition" (Paris, France, 2012) 1st prize at the "Ennio Porrino International Piano Competition" (Cagliari, Italy, 2013) 4th prize at the "Mauro Paolo Monopoli Prize" (Barletta, Italy, 2016 )