Elena was born in Perm in 1987. She graduated with honors from Children's Music School No. 1 (class of Honored Worker of Culture Tatyana Shevtsova) and Nizhny Novgorod M. Balakirev College of Music (class of Professor, Honored Artist of Russia Sofia Propishchan). In June 2010 she graduated with honours from the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatoire (class of Professor, People's Artist of Russia Vladimir Ivanov and class of Professor, People's Artist of Russia Alexander Bonduriansky). Currently she is a postgraduate student at the Moscow Conservatoire (class of Professor, People's Artist of Russia Vladimir Ivanov).
Laureate of international competitions:
2003: The 6th Prize Award at the 3rd Demidov International Violin Youth Competition (Syzran).
2006: The 1st Prize Award at the 2nd International Competition for Young Violinists (Dubai).
2007: The 2nd Prize Award at the Robert Canetti International Competition (Antalya).
2007: The 1st Prize Award at the International Youth Competition “Musical Youth of the Planet” (Moscow).
2008: The 1st Prize Award and a special prize at the Robert Canetti International Violin Competition (Bulgaria).
2009: The 1st Prize Award at the 5th Abram Yampolsky International Violin Competition (Moscow).
2010: The 2nd Prize Award at the 4th David Oistrakh International Violin Competition (Moscow).
2011: The 3rd Prize Award at the 2nd Yury Yankelevich International Violin Competition (Omsk).
In 2004, she won a prize at the 3rd Russian National Competition “New Names”. From 1999 to 2002, Elena was a fellow of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, the Vladimir Spivakov Foundation, from 2002 to 2004 she was a fellow of the Russian Performing Arts Foundation. Since 2010 she has been a fellow of the Mstislav Rostropovich Foundation.
She participated in workshops by Maxim Vengerov, Dora Schwarzberg, Valentina Zhuka, Sergey Girshenko.
She takes part in various festivals: Musical Evenings on the Volga, Varna Summer (Bulgaria), Robert Canetti Festival (Castel Franco Veneto, Italy), Days of Felix Mendelssohn in Moscow, Creative Youth of the Moscow Conservatory.
She performs as a soloist with such orchestras as the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, the State Academic Symphony Orchestra named after Evgeniy Svetlanov, Academic Symphony Orchestra of the Nizhny Novgorod Philharmonic named after Mstislav Rostropovich, the Youth Orchestra of Baden-Baden, the St. Petersburg Academic Symphony Orchestra and others.
Her chamber music partners include Alexander Rudin, Evgeny Rumyantsev, Valentin Uryupin, Philipp Kopachevskiy, Natalia Grines and Stanislav Khristenko. She performs in the Great, Small and Rachmaninoff Halls of the Moscow Conservatory and other halls of Moscow. In March 2010 she performed in the subscription “Philharmonic Debut” of the Moscow Philharmonic Society.
In February 2010 the violinist made her debut in the Mozart-Saal of the Vienna Konzerthaus. In November 2011 she performed at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall together with the Yevgeny Svetlanov State Academic Symphony Orchestra.
Elena tours in the cities of Russia and Ukraine, as well as in Latvia, Austria, Germany, France, Bulgaria, Albania, Italy, Spain, and Japan.
