Elena Tarosyan, born in 1993 in Omsk. Graduated from the College of Music at Novosibirsk Conservatory named after M.I. Glinka (Marina Kuzina-Koifman’s class), P.I. Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory and Post Graduate Performance Course of MSK (Professor Eduard Grach’s class). Multiple participation in international master-classes Keshet Eilon in Israel, also participate in master-classes by Boris Kuschnir, Zakhar Bron, Maxim Vengerov, Philippe Herreweghe, Chaim Taub, Rosa Fain, Vadim Gluzman, Itzhak Rashkovsky, Ani Schnarch, Anton Barakhovsky.
Winner of international competitions in Kloster-Schental (Germany), “Baltic Constellation” in St. Petersburg, “Art and Education of XXI Century” in Kiev, “Violin of the North” in Yakutsk (Grand Prix), Rhodes Island (Greece, Grand Prix), violin competition in Astana (Kazakhstan, Grand Prix), competitions named after Rudolf Gemmert in Kazan (Grand Prix), Delphic Youth Games in Tver, Russia and the First All-Russian Symphony Orchestra Competition in Moscow. She is a laureate of international competitions in Budapest named after Jozef Szigeti, Miroslav Lavrinovish in Plock, Poland, Abram Yampolsky and David Oistrakh in Moscow, Evgeny Mravinsky in St. Petersburg and Vladivostok, and Eduard Grach in Dubna.
In 2022 won the second prize at the International Violin Competition “Classic Strings” in Dubai. In 2023 received the III Prize and a bronze medal at the XVII International Tchaikovsky Competition.
As a soloist took part in programs of the Moscow Philharmonic (including the “Young Talents” project) and St. Petersburg House of Music, performed in leading Moscow halls. Concerts with the participation of the violinist were broadcast by various radio and television companies, including medici.tv.
In 2025, she received an international certificate as an ambassador for the Russian Export Center's "Made in Russia" program.
She has collaborated with the Academic Symphony Orchestra of Moscow Philharmonic, E.F. Svetlanov Russian State Orchestra, State Symphony Orchestra “New Russia”, N.N. Nekrasov Academic Orchestra of Russian Folk Instruments, “Moscovia” Chamber Orchestra; performed with conductors Valery Gergiev, Alexander Lazarev, Vladimir Fedoseev, Paavo Yarvi, Mikhail Yurovsky, Alexander Sladkovsky, Thomas Sanderling, Tugan Sokhiev, Philippe Herreweghe, Yuri Simonov, Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Julian Rachlin, Antonello Manacorda and many others.
Since 2018 she has been the concertmaster of the Russian National Youth Symphony Orchestra. She plays a violin made by Milanese master Carlo Antonio Testore (1751).
