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A cello of flesh and mind. Anastasia Kobekina is one of the young soloists who shine this summer in Verbier. Wednesday morning, she excited the festival-goers with her play in turn fiery and delicate alongside pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason-a concert given to the Station church. The cellist resonates stories in her instrument. We feel it both posed and on the tightrope, relying on a very safe instinct.
His eyes express so much, to the scene as in life. Like many of us, she assists, collapsed, with the conflicts of our time. When the Russians opened the war and invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, she and the Ukrainian pianist Anna Fedorova immediately published a video to express their disagreement. After a few days, the cellist wrote a post on social networks in order to explain it. “It was very important for me to speak for people who were attacked. In the musical world, we are not so fixed on nationality: we speak the same common language. When you make chamber music, you have to learn to listen to the other, to give it room, knowing that you will have your turn to express themselves. It would be good for politicians to make chamber music to learn to listen to each other. ”