Anastasiya Petryshak

was born in Ukraine in 1994. At the age of eight she began performing in public, participating in and winning numerous important national and international competitions. In 2005 she moved to Italy to continue her violin studies, later becoming, at the age of just fifteen, the youngest violinist in the high specialization violin course held by Maestro Salvatore Accardo at the "Walter Stauffer" International Academy in Cremona and at the Chigiana Academy in Siena, where she is still studying. At 17 she graduated with perfect marks and magna cum laude from the Arrigo Boito Conservatory of Music in Parma. She subsequently graduated from the specialization violin course at the Incontri col Maestro Academy in Imola. She graduated in 2015 with perfect marks and magna cum laude from the second level biennium Course of Higher Education in Art and Music at the "C. Monteverdi" Institute in Cremona with Laura Gorna. At the same time she has specialized, among others, with B. Belkin, E. Pace, Z. Brohn, P. Amoyal, R. Koelman. She has participated in numerous documentaries and national and international television programs, such as "Petrushka", "Nautilus", "Che tempo che fa", "Festival di Sanremo" on the RAI, "60 Minutes" on CBS USA, on the International EBS. These documentaries analyzed the life of Paganini and Stradivari, or more generally they dealt with the violin and the role of the performer. Since 2010 she has been working regularly as a soloist and in duets with Andrea Bocelli, joining him in many concerts to great public and critical acclaim. She collaborates with the Museum of the Violin in Cremona and the Stradivari Foundation in the project "Friends of Stradivari", an international network of owners around the world of classical instruments from Cremona, regularly playing all the instruments of the collection, Stradivari, Amati, Guarneri del Gesù and others. Furthermore she has collaborated with the Laboratory of Musical Acoustics at Milan Polytechnic and the Laboratory of Non-invasive Diagnostics at the University of Pavia, which analyze the instruments' sound and the physical nature of Stradivari, Amati and Guarneri del Gesù's violins.