Anastasia Vedyakova

Anastasia Vedyakova (born 1991) is a violinist, composer and conductor. She is the Soloist of the Philharmonic, member of BMI, the National Union of Composers, the Boston New Music Initiative, the Recording Academy, International Society for Jazz Arrangers and Composers, the International Association for Music and Medicine. She is the only Russian holder of the Elgar Medal. She's the winner and nominee for more than 50 international music awards as a violinist, composer, conductor and singer-songwriter, also the Grammy(r) nominated and balloted artis

Professional Activities

Anastasia Vedyakova was born in 1991 and she began to play the violin when she was four. By 1998 she was welcomed into the Central Music School and the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory, where she studied with Prof. E. Grach, V. Pikaizen and Prof. A.Koblyakov. She graduated with honours from the conservatory in 2014. Then she studied at the Contemporary Classical Music Department till 2017 when she has become a Soloist at the Philharmonic. September 2022, Anastasia received a diploma as a conductor and joined the International Conductors Guild (the US) as the Member. Currently, Anastasia Vedyakova is a trainee conductor at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, class of Professor Leonid Korchmar, and also a student in the course of Markand Thakar.

She has won 20 awards as a conductor, including th
King's Peak International Music Competition
(2023), Brahms International Competiti

She's also the Laureate at th
London Classical Music Competition
as a classical vocalist (contralto), II Prix laureate at the competition «Vocal City» (France, 2024), III prize laureate at the «Voice Premium» competition (Belarus, 2023), II prize laureate at the «VoicePemium�
2025

She was a fellow of the Rostropovich Foundation.

Vedyakova was nominated as "Musician of the Year" for the Josie Music Awards in 2021, 2024, nominated for "Vocal Event of the Year" in 2023, and nominated for "Artist of the Year" (team Jabali Afrika) in 202

Vedyakova was the only composer from Russia as a participant of KLK New Music, the winner of "The 6th International Composers' Competition for the 6th International Wind/Percussion Competition",.

She takes part in international music and music therapy conferences, and publishes articles as a musicologist.

The American ''Friction Quartet'' was the first ensemble to record her "Mirage".

In February 2022, Vedyakova and organist Anastasia Bykova performed the world premiere of a work by Grammy-nominated composer Nadeem Majdalany, which he composed especially for the duet; there were also six Russian premieres of works by such composers as Danaë Xanthe Vlasse, Thomas Nazziola, John Finbury, Șerban Nichifor, Sherban Nichifor and Antoine Auberson.

In March 2022, she wo
Rome Music Video Awards
for her Sonata "A War Zone". April 2022, Anastasia won 3 Gold and 1 Silve
One Earth Awards
for her music. She is also the winner on the 14th season of the One Earth Award

On August 12, 2022, she released her eighth albu
''ConTempoRary Violin''featuring
music by J. S. Bach and five living composers from five countries.

August 2022, Anastasia and the great-great-grandson of the famous composer Reinhold Gliere wo
Euro Music Video Awards
for their work "The Music of Our Victory".

August 2022, Anastasia wo
ISSA International Rising Star Awards
and th
Red Carpet Award Show in Holland Best Female Musician of the Year

On September 10, 2022, the albu
''It Arrives''
by Iranian composer Mehdi Rajabian was released. Anastasia performed the lead violin on this album.

In 2023, she won the Viktor Kalabis Prize at the Ruzikova Composition Competitio

Anastasia is the nominee at the Wavy Awards for her album "ConTempoRary Violin

finalist at the ISSA Awards 202

I place winner at the competition "Inspiration" as a conducto

and other awards.

She is the featured artist on such impactful releases as the album "Kings and Queens" by Justo Asikoye (member of Jabali Afrika) Produced by Mehdi Rajabian, "Love and Peace" by Prem Murti (co-author of Grammy Awards, Grammybr>
winning album "Divine Tides" along with Ricky Kej), "Kaatrin Mozhi (Revisited)" by Devan Ekambaram and Rita Thyagarajan.

Anastasia Vedyakova collaborates with Studio for New Music as a composer and conductor


She has an official registere
artist's alias

She is the featured artist at such radio stations like LDM Musi

Museboa

Banks Radio Australia, New In Musi

Buzz

Izilio

Louder Than the Musi


Anastasia often takes part in international conferences for musicologists such as the "Stanislavsky and the Musical Theater

New Music of the Post-Soviet Spac

Nikolay Golovanov and modern ways of development of sacred musi

Anastasia Vedyakova is a jury member at the LIT Talent Award

Charleston International Music Competitio

International S. Slonimsky Competitio

Intarnational S.Orlov Competitio

World Online Music Competitions Organizatio


In 2024, Anastasia Vedyakova was awarded the Medal of Merit for Science and Education (France).

November 2024, the album ”The Fury” by Antonio Vergara, for whom Anastasia recorded her violin, became Grammy(r) nominated in the categor
”Best Contemporary Blues Album”

Performances

She is the first performer of the music by Jan Tamzejian, Tayren Ben-Abraham, Jay Reise, Colette Mourey
András Derecskei
Nadeem Majdalany
Wajdi About Diab
Faraj Garayev

2019, she had a solo recital together with Simon Smith during the Saint-Petersburg International Cultural Forum.

Vedyakova has given performances at the Moscow Conservatory halls, Zaryadye Hall, and the Evangelical Lutheran Cathedral.

The performers of her music are Erica Sinclair (UK

Duo Diversita

She is the first performer of the works b
Nikolai Manasewitch.

In 2024, Anastasia Vedyakova toured the cities of Russia and Azerbaijan

References

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1991 births
Living people
Russian violinists
Russian women violinists
Russian women composers