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Elena
Kaledina was born and brought up in Minsk, Belarussia. She has played
piano from the age of 7 under AllaReshetian. In 1998 she got her
diploma with highest marks as a concert pianist, a chamber concert
musician, an accompanist and a piano educationalist from The National
Academy of Music, studying under Professor Zoya Kacharskaya. The
same year Elena settled in Sweden, and in 1999 she was admitted
to the soloist diploma education at Royal College of Music in Stockholm,
studying under the guidance of Professor Staffan Scheja.
In
the course of her study, she was awarded three scholarships from
the Royal Academy of Music, played in master classes for i.a. Hans
Leygraf and Michel Beroff. She concluded her soloist education in
2002 with concerts at the Stockholm Concert Hall and Academy of
Music, playing i.a. Mussorgsky’s Paintings at an exhibition.
Elena has played at chamber music festivals in Sweden and has given
concerts in Norway, Germany and The Netherlands. Her soloist program
comprises music from barock to contemporary music. Elena’s
concert programs are dramaturgically so composed as to let the audience
experience both the totality of the program as well as each composer’s
individual character.
Elena
has long experience as chamber musician, and works extensively with
other instrumentalists and singers.
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Photo:
Mats Hedman
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