Elena Kuzheleva Soprano will sing for the Gala

Elena Kuzheleva is a graduate of Odessa State A.V. Nezhdanova Music Academy of two faculties: piano-theoretical and vocal. She defended a thesis “Non-actual style as a phenomenon of composer’s poetry of XX century” (Ph.D. In History of Arts, Musical art) and went through training in Moscow in V.S. Popov Academy of Choral Singing under the guidance of Professor Svetlana Nesterenko (Singing Coach of Moscow’s Bolshoi Theatre).

She participated in Mariella Devia’s master classes «Di alto perfezionamento lirico» in 2012 in Rome.

Elena worked as a soloist for Odessa Philharmonic Theatre. She also took part in concerts and festivals performed in Moscow, Vienna, Luxembourg, Monte-Carlo, Lviv,  including titles such as “Spring in Russia”, “Viennese Ball’ accompanied by Oleg Lundstrem’s orchestra (2011), “Nothern Lights International Music Festival” in USA (2012), “Festival de Wilz” in Luxembourg (2014), Giumry “Renaissance” international festival’ (2016) “The Grand Masked Ball in Monte-Carlo” under the high patronage of H.S.H. Prince Albert II of Monaco (2018) and many others.

Elena worked in cooperation with Lviv National Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet after Solomiya Krushelnytska (since 2014), Odessa National Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Hobart Earle (since 2015).

She is a constant participant of chamber projects with outstanding musicians among others Alexander Ghindin, Yuriy Martynov, Igor Fedorov, Sergei Terentiev.

She is a jury member in an international competition: “Renaissance VIII International Contest” (Armenia, 2016) and “Vienna International Competition” (Austria, 2018).

Elena Kuzheleva is the author of the “Vienna Musical Express” project.