ABOUT THE TEACHER
Anastacia Tolstonog
At the heart of every melody she crafts, Anastacia Tolstonog holds a profound narrative that resonates with her audience and students alike. With a career spanning over two decades, Anastacia has graced concert halls across the globe, her performances characterized by a blend of technical mastery and emotional depth.
As she ventures into the digital realm, Anastacia Tolstonog brings her wealth of knowledge and inspirational pedagogy to students worldwide through her innovative online platform. Here, she promises not just a lesson, but a transformative musical experience that transcends the traditional boundaries of piano education.
About Anastacia
Anastacia's 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. In Poltava Anastasia graduated with honors from the local music school where she attended the 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. In Saratov Anastacia recorded a CD from works by Bach, Rachmaninoff and Baslakirev. Anastacia's professional career started as a soloist of Poltava's regional philharmonic in 2003. Since 2013 till 2015 she worked as soloist at Ivano-Frankivsk regional philharmonic. Nowadays she is a soloist from the Lviv organ and chamber music Hall, tours extensively in Ukraine and abroad.
Her skills
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.In 2011 there was a second CD recorded which includes the works of Brahms, Chopin, Scriabin and Beethoven.
In September of the 2012 Anastacia represented Ukraine at the international piano festival "Palermo -Classica" where she performed a program with works of Beethoven, Scarlatti ,Lizst and Ginastera.
The same year she was invited to a festival "Music without borders" (Uzhorod,Ukraine), and the festival "December's evenings" (Zitomir,Ukraine). In 2013, while having a concert in Kherson philharmonic on a request from Kherson Music College piano department, she gave a masterclass for students of the Music College. In the same year she performed Levko Revutsky Piano Concerto F major in Chernivtsi and Ivano-Frankivsk Philharmonic's (first performance).