BEETHOVEN
Sonata op. 111 in C minor
LISZT
Mephisto – Waltz No 1
SCHUMANN
Noveletten op 21 No 8 in f sharp minor
CHOPIN
3
Mazurkas op. 50
PROKOFIEF Sonata
No 7 in B-flat major op. 83
Elena Kiseleva
was born in Moscow in 1984, and is the daughter of composer Anatoly
Kisselev. In 2002 she graduated from the Central Special Music
School of the Moscow Conservatory, where she studied with Prof. Lev Naumov. After that she studied at the Chopin College with Daniil
Kopylov. In 2003 Elena studied at the Russian Academy of Music with
Prof. Oleg Boshnyakovich. She was a recipient of a reward from the
V. Spivakov foundation. Elena Kiseleva has been a regular
participant in "The Moscow Autumn" series of festivals that are
organized by the Union of Composers (1994 - 2003).
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At the age of
eleven she played in Paris and at a festival of modern music in
Bourges (France). She has been a participant in many concerts in
philharmonic halls in Moscow and St. Petersburg. She has played with
success in Italy, Finland and Portugal. Elena has rich repertoire of
Russian and Western European classical and modern music. In 2003,
she gave a solo recital at the Glinka festival in Smolensk (Russia).
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In 2003 Elena recorded a
CD with Sergey Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Sonata, works by Bach and
Ravel as well as the Fantasia "In Memory of S. Prokofiev" (2003),
written by the pianist’s father.
Elena has won several awards and performed extensively throughout
Europe including concerts in Italy, Spain, France, Finland and
Portugal as well as regular appearances in Russia and London and has
participated in the music festivals; the Oxford Philomusica Piano
Festival, 'Encuentro de Musica y Academia de Santander' in Spain and
the 'Moscow Autumn' Festival in Russia.
In addition to her solo performances Elena regularly plays with
chamber groups, as an accompanist and in contemporary music
ensembles. She has performed with such musicians as Zakhar Brohn,
Felix Renggli and Sebastian Comberti. Elena also composes and her
work 'Day Poem' for flute and piano was recently published by P.
Jurgenson Music Publishing House. After completing her studies at
the Central Special Music School of the Moscow Conservatory
(studying with Lev Naumov) she moved to London in 2004.
In September 2006 Elena made her debut in the Queen Elizabeth Hall
performing an assortment of Preludes and Fugues by Shostakovich as
part of the festival celebrating the 100th Anniversary of his birth.
Elena recently completed her Masters of Arts degree in piano
performance at the Royal Academy of Music (London) where she studied
with Prof. Christopher Elton.
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