Anastasia Dedik was born in 1981 in St. Petersburg, Russia, to a family of musicians, and started taking piano lessons from her mother at the age of 5. In 1999 she graduated from the pre-conservatory division of the St. Petersburg Conservatory (under the instruction of Asya Rubina) and was accepted to the Conservatory without any exams, studying at first with Professor Elena Shishko and then Professor Valery Vishnevsky, under whom she earned a Bachelor of Music and a Master of Music degree in 2004. She has participated in the master classes and studied with Yoheved Kaplinsky, Natalia Trull, Andrey Diev, Lev Naumov, Vladimir Krainev, Edith Fisher, Russell Sherman, Vladimir Viardo, and Mario Delli Ponti. In 2006 Ms. Dedik earned an Artist Diploma at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, following studies, on a full talent scholarship, with Professor of Piano Sedmara Z. Rutstein.
Ms. Dedik has won top prizes in numerous international piano competitions dating back to 1994, when she took second prize in the Music de France International Piano Competition in Paris. Her first prize awards include those from the Frederic Chopin Piano Competition (St. Petersburg, Russia, 2000); the Maria Judina International Piano Competition (St. Petersburg, Russia, 2002); the Oberlin Concerto Competition (Oberlin, Ohio, 2004); the Russian International Piano Competition (San Jose, California, 2005); the Lee Biennial Piano Competition (Sioux Falls, South Dakota, 2006); the Rovero d'Oro International Piano Competition (San Bartolomeo, Italy, 2006); and the Buono and Bradshaw International Piano Competition (New York, New York, 2007).
Ms. Dedik was accepted with full tuition scholarships to the Yale University School of Music, the Mannes School of Music, and the Juilliard School. In fall 2007 she will continue her education at Juilliard, pursuing an Artist Diploma under the tutelage of Professors Matti Raekallio and Yoheved Kaplinsky.