Anna Verkholantseva completed her studies with the legendary Vera Dulova at the Moscow Conservatory. After winning 1st prize at the Moscow International Harp Competition, solo engagements followed in various concert halls such as Wigmore Hall (London), Carnegie Weill Recital Hall, Victoria Hall (Geneva), Chicago Symphony Center, San Francisco Herbst Theatre.
She has made regular solo appearances with various orchestras such as the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, the RSO Vienna, the Estonian State Symphony Orchestra. Anna Verkholantseva has won numerous national and international competitions and regularly gives master classes at Trinity College, the Royal College of Music and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, among others.
Since 2003 she has been principal harpist of the ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna.