 Her mother was a chemist and an accomplished piano player and singer who died in 1981.Tanya began to study cello at 7 with Zoia Kamisheva and gave her first public performance the same year.After graduating with honors from the Moscow Conservatory (1989), where she studied with Igor Gavrysh, Anisimova continued her cello studies with George Neikrug at Boston University (Artist Diploma, 1992).