Tanya Anisimova

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1966 –

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Who is Tanya Anisimova?

Tanya Anisimova is a Russian cellist and composer.

Tanya Anisimova was born in the Chechen city of Grozny into a family of scientists: her father Dr. Mikhail Anisimov is a well-known physicist. Her mother was a chemist and an accomplished piano player and singer who died in 1981. Tanya began to study cello at 7 with Zoia Kamisheva and gave her first public performance the same year. After graduating with honors from the Moscow Conservatory, where she studied with Igor Gavrysh, Anisimova continued her cello studies with George Neikrug at Boston University. While in Boston, she appeared regularly on WGBH Public Radio. In 1992, Anisimova was invited by Aldo Parisot to work on her Doctor of Musical Arts Degree at Yale. She graduated from Yale School of Music in 1995. In her doctoral thesis she focused on J.S. Bach’s works for solo violin and solo cello and their interconnectedness.

Also in 1995, Anisimova and her husband artist Alexander Anufriev spent four months at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts by an invitation of the VCCA’s director William Smart. In the fall of 1995, Anisimova and Anufriev successfully presented their multimedia project titled Angels on Mt.

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Born
Feb 15, 1966
Grozny
Also known as
  • Анисимова, Таня
Education
  • Yale University
  • Boston University
  • Moscow Conservatory

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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