Anastasiia Lykhosherstova

Concertmaster

With RMSO since Season 7

Anastasiia Lykhosherstova was born and raised in distant and beautiful land of Ukraine in a family of engineers who simply adored music and home music making. It all started with a church choir, she felt the divine superpower of music, its ability to build invisible bridges between the souls of people and between people and the Almighty.

She studied violin and piano at the College of Music, and received a master’s degree from The Conservatory at the Kharkiv University of Arts. As a classical musician, Anastasiia has successfully worked in many professional orchestras,  in particular as a concertmaster and was a soloist of the Kharkiv Philharmonic, actively performed modern classical music, competitions, festivals and more. Flamenco and Ukrainian folk music also had their own special place in her repertoire.

As a teenager, she began to play in a  family Christian rock band, then assembled her own line-up, wrote and sang her own songs, and released three EP albums. Since 2019, she has been working for a videogame company as a composer and arranger. She is a loving mother and wife. And now she starts a new life on the other side of the world in beautiful Calgary.

Anastasiia’s teachers include:

• G.M. Kuperman, student of A. Leshchinskij, who was student of Carl Flesch.

• Ihor Chernyavskij. He studied with L.S. Brusova, she was studying with B. V. Belenky, who was student of L. Tseytlin, and he was student of Leopold Auer and Eugene Ysaye!