The Russian organist, Elena Privalova (Privalova-Epshtein; Russian: Елена Привалова), studied the piano and musicology in Orenburg Music school No. 3 (1989-1998) and Orenburg Musical College. She entered the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory in 2001 and studied in two specialities: the organ (class of Professor Guraeva-Vedernikova) and musicology, graduating in 2007. She attended the classes of Alexei Shevchenko, Russia’s leading organist and docent at the Faculty of Historic and Contemporary Instruments, from 2011 to 2013. She has attended master-classes of Europe’s leading organists: S. Cherepanov (Lübeck), A. Gast (Lübeck), Wolfgang Zerer (Hamburg), Pieter Dirksen (The Netherlands), Hans Fagius (Switzerland). In 2013 she participated at the Summer Academy Türingische Orgelakademie 2013 in Altenburg under the supervision of Professor L. Lohmann, Professor Michael Radulescu and Professor F. Friedrich.
Elena Privalova has performed solo concerts in Russia, Latvia and elsewhere in Europe, as well as cooperated with the Philharmonic Choral Capella Yaroslavia, the Baroque Capella Golden Age, the Chamber Orchestra Kremlin from Moscow and Antonio-orchestra.
Elena Privalova is the founder and artistic director of the annual Summer concert series “Organ Evenings in Kuskovo” (Moscow, Russia) since 2010. She currently lives in Riga, Latvia. |