Musical education She was introduced to music with piano studies at age 5; in the following years, she began studying the violin. At age 17, she graduated from the
Arrigo Boito Conservatory in
Parma with the highest marks, honors and an honorable mention. In 2012 she won the competition of "Best Graduates from Conservatories and Musical Institutes of Italy, 2011" and in 2014 she was among the best students from the Institutes of Advanced Music Education in Italy. She has performed and collaborated with international musicians such as
Sofia Gubaidulina,
Salvatore Accardo,
Rocco Filippini,
Gianluigi Gelmetti,
Federico Longo and many others. Since the age of 15 she has worked with
Andrea Bocelli, who has invited her as a guest soloist for numerous concerts in Italy and abroad. Particularly sensitive to social issues, she offers her music at charity events such as benefits following the earthquake in Haiti or to help build the new Cardiac Surgery ICU at the
Bambino Gesù Hospital. In 2015 she was chosen to be part of the project designed and established by
Pope Francis and the
Pontifical Council for the Family, entitled "The Great Mystery". Each year she is dedicated to initiatives to commemorate the
International Holocaust Remembrance Day, such as the show "The Question of Mozart" or by performing in concerts with the "Violin of Hope". In 2016 she had the opportunity to play Paganini's violin “
Il Cannone” (
Guarneri del Gesu, 1743) in the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genova with Orchestra to honor the 234th anniversary of his birth. She played Paganini's Violin Concerto No. 1. In 2018, she released her first CD, with the label Sony Classical, called "Amato Bene". In 2022, she released her second CD "Ange Terrible", again with Sony, focused on the French masterpieces of the first half of the twentieth century.
Instruments She collaborates with the "Stradivari Foundation" and "Museum of the Violin" of
Cremona, regularly performing with all the instruments in the collection, made by
Stradivari,
Antonio Amati,
Guarneri del Gesù and others. She also works with the musical acoustics laboratory at the
Polytechnic University of Milan and the non-invasive diagnostic laboratory of the
University of Pavia, which deals with acoustic aspect of the instrument and the physical nature of the ancient violins from Cremonese violin making, as well as modern instruments, winners of the Triennial International Competition of Violin Making. These collaborations allowed her, at a young age, to specialize in the use of the antique Cremonese instruments of Stradivari, Amati, Guarneri del Gesu as well as the modern versions, performing with roughly 60 of them, studying their acoustic performance in depth and identifying the peculiarities and nuanced timbre of each violin. Anastasiya Petryshak plays a modern violin by Bologna's violin maker
Roberto Regazzi. ==References==