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 Anisimova became a naturalised American citizen in 1994.
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 (1989), where she studied with Igor Gavrysh,[1] Anisimova continued her cello studies with George Neikrug at Boston University (Artist Diploma, 1992). 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. San Angelo, The visual part included six canvases, 15 by 10 feet each, with angels representing six colors of a spectrum, all painted by Anufriev. The audio part consisted of Anisimova's Song on Mt. San Angelo, which was performed live during the presentation of the project. One year later, the project was repeated with success at the St. Mark's Church on Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C.
The press has described cellist and composer Tanya Anisimova as the artist with "spiritual authority" and "a refined musical intelligence"; her performances - as "thoughtful and powerful, alluring and energizing"; her interpretations - as "invariably full of personality and character." Anisimova's original music has been quoted as "deeply emotional," "mystical," and "marrying a sense of wild fancy and studied control." Of the performer's live improvisations with her own vocalizing it has been said that they have "subtle harmonies" and "a very refined melody, clearly in Slavic style." Joseph McLellan of the Washington Post called Anisimova's improvisations "powerfully evocative vocalises, which she sang with a pure, precisely controlled voice."
Discography
1. "Music from Mt. San Angelo," 1995 The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
2. J.S. Bach, "Six Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin," 2001 Celle-stial Records Company This is the first complete cycle recorded on modern cello. Original keys were used except for partitas 1 & 3.[2]
3. J.S. Bach, Six Suites for Solo Cello, 2002 Volume 1, Suites No. 1, 3 & 5
4. J.S. Bach, Six Suites for Solo Cello, 2004 Volume 2, Suites No. 2, 4 & 6 Celle-stial Records Company
5. "Concert in Moscow," 2003 Celle-stial Records Company
6. "Sufi Soul," 2006 Celle-stial Records Company
7. "Mystical Strings-Enchanted Cello," 2007 The Synchronicity Foundation
Original works
Title
Instruments
Date
Notes
Abigail
Piano
2021
Carol Suite
Cello
2019
premiered 02.2020, Arts on the Green, Gaithersburg, MD
Teacher
Cello Nonet
2017
premiered 08.2017, Sala De Revueltas, Mexico City
Sinfonietta
Guitar and Cello
2016
premiered 05.2017, Sundays Live, Kensington, MD
Farela
Cello and Piano
2015
premiered 11.2015, Promisek Series, CT
Homage To Janos Starker
Cello
2013
premiered 07.2013, Buckley Moss Museum, Waynesboro, VA
Homage To Sviatoslav Knushevitsky
Cello
2012
Obligatory piece for The International Knushevitsky Cello Competition, Saratov, Russian Federation
↑ Recording was available on CD but now only available on streaming services and as digital download.
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References
The Washington Post. Articles: "Thoughtful and Powerful Cello Recital at Strathmore," October, 2007;"Tanya Anisimova's Singing Endorsement of the Cello," April, 2003; "Beguiling Music at Hand," March, 1999
"Mi Morelia", Michoacan, Mexico. Article "Banqueto de Violonchelo y de Beethoven", February, 2005
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