Anastasiya Yafimava is a Belarusian pianist and piano accompanist. Her training runs in an unbroken line from the Vitebsk State Music School through the Minsk State Music College to the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music in Moscow, where she took her Bachelor of Music in 2019 and her Master of Music in 2021 as pianist, accompanist and teacher.

As soloist and accompanist she has taken part in many projects on the stage of the Minsk Philharmonic, given masterclasses on Tchaikovsky’s piano concertos and the work on polyphony, and performed in Russia, Belarus, Germany and Poland. She is a prize-winner of piano competitions in Belarus and Russia, and her accompanist practice spans the orchestra: violin, cello, viola, flute, oboe, clarinet, trombone and organ among them.

Opera runs through her work. As a répétiteur she was engaged in staging Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Snow Maiden and Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore in Moscow, and both of her academic theses examined Mussorgsky’s vocal cycles — The Nursery, Without Sun, Songs and Dances of Death — from the accompanist’s side: the piano’s part in giving the literary word its musical body.

She has taught piano and accompanied the nationally known boys’ choir at the Republican Music College in Minsk, and taught students from five to sixty-five at a private music school — many of whom went on to perform on the stage of the Minsk Philharmonic. She is the creator of The Magic of Sound, a music therapy project of her own design.

Since July 2023 she has been an Assistant Professor at CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru. For the university’s production of Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi she has carried the musical preparation and performs the piano part.