Anastasia Alferova was born in Moscow into a musical family. She began learning the harp at the age of six. She graduated from the Academic Music College of the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory (harp class of M. F. Maslennikova), then from the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory (harp class of Professor V. G. Dulova and Associate Professor I. P. Pashinskaya).
While studying at the Moscow Conservatory she became a prizewinner of the First International Harp Competition in Moscow in the harp duo category.
In 2004 she completed postgraduate studies at the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory in the “Contemporary Music Orchestra” programme. From 2000 to 2002 she was principal harp of the orchestra of the Hermitage Drama Theatre.
Since 2002 she has been principal harp of the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre.
Since 2013 she has been principal harp of the Natalia Sats Children’s Music Theatre.
She has collaborated with the orchestras of the Helikon-Opera and Novaya Opera Theatre, the Globalis orchestra, the Moscow Symphony Orchestra, Sofia, the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, the Russian National Orchestra, the State Academic Symphony Orchestra and early music ensembles. She takes part in festivals, chamber music concerts and recordings. She has appeared in the programme Bolshaya Opera and the show The Voice. With orchestras and ensembles she has performed in the finest concert halls of Russia, the USA, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Italy, Germany, China, Estonia, Argentina and other countries.
Anastasia’s repertoire includes more than 30 opera and ballet productions.
A soloist of the Studio for New Music ensemble since 2005.