Elena Filonova
Elena Filonova is a contemporary French classical pianist of Russian origin.
Biography[]
After starting piano lessons at the age of 3, she obtained the First Prize of the Concours Beethoven pour jeunes talents.
Thereafter, this interpreter who is in the great tradition of the school of Heinrich Neuhaus has had an international concert career after she had Pavel Messner, Yevgeny Malinin, Kirill Kondrashin, Yevgeny Mravinsky and Emil Gilels as masters.
She has recorded numerous records, including several for the Melodiya label (works by Chopin, Prokofiev, Sergei Rachmaninoff and Rodion Shchedrin).
Since 1990, Elena Filonova has been living in Paris.
She founded and is artistic director of her own festival "Harmonies d'Automne"[1] since 2010 in Paris.
Selected discography[]
- Works by Giovanni Bottesini, CD, with and the London Symphony Orchestra
- Tchaikovsky recitals, CD, Marcal Classics, 2004
- Mélodies oubliées — Arabesques, by Nikolai Medtner, CD, Ar re-se (distrib. Codaex), 2007
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Categories:
- 21st-century French women classical pianists
- Living people