Anastacia Tolstonog, Piano

Biography

Anastacia Tolstonog was born in Kiev  in a family of musicians. She received her first piano lessons at the age of 4 from her mother, who was a  piano-teacher by profession. Playing the piano "quattre mains" soon became a favorite activity for little Nastya and her sister.

At the age of 8 Anastacia's further development and skills in playing the piano as a performer  took place at Kiev's musicschool in the  class of famous  teachers Alla Mizhega and Margarita Donskaya. In this period she also was one of the first students who attended the unique didactic music  system "Musicmodus" which was led by Yaroslav Mykhaylyuk.

After the Chernobyl disaster Anastacia's family moved to Poltava in 1989. In Poltava Anastasia graduated with honors from the local music school where she had class from Larisa Smirnova.

The next step in her musical career was studying at the Saratov Conservatory in Russia where she attended the class of Honored Artist of Russia, Professor Asya Kireyeva. 

Under her guidance Anastacia gave many performances in Russia as a pianist. Interesting fact is that during her time at the Conservatory, Anastasia successfully studied in a specialized school for wind-instruments (class clarinet). In her fourth year at the Saratov conservatory she choose piano as her only instrument and a few years after that she graduated brilliantly as a pianist in conservatory and also received her post-graduate.

Anastacia's professional career started as a soloist of Poltava's regional  philharmonic. Nowadays she tours extensively in Ukraine and abroad.

Anastacia is skilled with a beautiful piano-technique. She has a refined sense for the style of many composers and their compositions.  Most important Anastacia has the desire to show the listener the incredible diversity of the world piano heritage. Its spiritual infinity of space has inspired Anastasia to create new and original programs.