Anna Chekassina is a violinist, vocalist, composer, performer and “multi performance actor”, as she’s called by the press sometimes. She works in music, theater and cinema. Anna was born in 1986 in Moscow. She graduated from the Music College at the Moscow Conservatoire and from the State Classical Academy, took part in many workshops and courses including Royal Academy of Music (London), Codarts Univercity for the Arts (Rotterdam), Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre (Vilnius). She started performing at the age of nine, when she became a participant of the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Musical Theater's performances. Since 1998 she has played solo programs for the violin with an orchestra (Russia, France and Germany), took part in dramatic performance by Boris Milgram, based on Dostoyevsky‘s novel as young actor and musician. At the same time Anna recorded soundtracks for movies “Moths’ Games” and “Kalashnikov and Spartak” by Andrey Proshkin, as well as “The Wedding” by Pavel Lungin. In 2005 Anna held a number of choreorgaphical and musical performances in Great Britain together with Roman Shinov (plastic arts). In 2007 the trio of Brigita Bublite, Anna Chekassina and Vitis Nivinskas presented a musical literature program at the Lithuanian National radio, that became the basis for performance “Closed party” of the Oskar Korshunovas Theater staged by Daynius Gavyanonis and Yurate Paulekayte. Since 2008 Anna is a founder (together with Anatoly Riassov) and a participant of musical and theatrical performances of art-project Shёpot. She's a co-author and a composer of the "Golodar" performance based on short stories by Franz Kafka. 2009 - composer and participant of performance "Bricolage" in state theatre "Chelovek" (Moscow). 2010 - presentation of three-hours album, rock-suite "Exfoliation". It is an independent work where buffoonery rock opera meets the mockery at cultiral cliches. Stylistically Exfoliation is a fusion of art-rock, psychedelics, ethno, industrial, funk. 2011 - works in the genre of New Music Theatre in Haag, creates her own projects. In the recent years Anna has been leading an active scenic life, cooperating with representatives of various artistic trends: Vladimir Chekassin, Ludas Mockunas, Alexander Girshon and Angela Doniy, Sergey Letov, Felix Lauhti, Kaftan Smeha, The Decomposers, Rada and Ternovnik, Alexey Kruglov and Krugly Band, Sergey Klevensky, Kostarev group, Anna Koroleva, Markus Pesonen, etc. Anna collaborates with the best local and guest musicians during various festivals and solo concerts as creator or just participant of program. About 20 albums were released. New CD and programs are coming soon. | 
