Elena LEBEDEVA is a Russian pianist, winner of international competitions. She graduated from the SSMS Lyceum at the St. Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory, in 2000 she made her debut with the orchestra, performing on the stage of the Great Hall of the St. Petersburg Academic Philharmonic accompanied by the Honored Collective of Russia under the direction of Tuganasohiev, the 1st concert of S.S. Prokofiev for piano and orchestra. In 2009, she graduated with honors from the St. Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory (class of Prof. P.G. Egorov and Prof. T.M. Zagorovskaya), the Higher School of Music of Nuremberg (Germany), continued her training at the Moscow Tchaikovsky State Conservatory (class of Prof. E.K.Virsaladze), participated in numerous master classes by M.Voskrksensky, V.Gornostaeva, K-X.Kemmerling, D.Bashkirov, O.Yablonskaya and others. She has performed solo concerts and chamber music programs in Russian cities (Moscow, St. Petersburg, Veliky Novgorod) and abroad (in cities of Germany, Switzerland, Malta, Israel, Finland, Estonia, Spain, China). Currently, she is actively engaged in concert activities, paying special attention to chamber music and working with opera singers, is a full-time concertmaster of many competitions of young opera singers such as the St. Petersburg competition, Elena Obraztsova’s competition, etc., has repeatedly been awarded the diploma of the Best Concertmaster.