Full Biography
A graduate of the St. Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire, Elene Gvritishvili is currently a member of the Bolshoi Young Artist Programme. The young soprano has already successfully performed at the Salzburg Festspielhaus and Mozarteum, the Bolshoi Theatre, Philharmonic halls in Moscow and St. Petersburg and other renowned venues.
Elene Gvritishvili’s 23/24 season is filled with exciting events. Most notably, the highly anticipated CD “Silent Songs” that Elene recorded with the pianist Alexey Pudinov is released in September 2023 under the label Kaleidos Musikeditionen. A captivating rendition of Valentin Silvestrov’s song collection, it is the first recording of this cycle with a female singing voice. Elene and Alexey perform Silent Songs at various locations: Berlin Piano Insel on September 2, Bonn Trinitatis Kirche on September 3, and Frankfurt Bechstein Centrum on September 7. This season Elene remains a member of the Bolshoi Young Artists Program and participates in the program’s events. Some of her engagements include performing Symphony No. 4 by Mahler with Fedor Lednev at GES-2 in Moscow, showcasing Purcell’s The Fairy-Queen and Ilia in Mozart´s Idomeneo at the Tchaikovsky Hall with Philipp Chizhevsky and singing the part of Tebaldo in Don Carlo at the Bolshoi Theatre. The highlight of Elene’s season is her role and house debut as Natasha Rostova in the new production of War and Peace at the Novaya Opera in Moscow.
Remarkable moments of the previous season include Elene’s performances at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall where she sang Requiem (Mozart) with maestro Bashmet and Requiem (Donizetti) with maestro Korchak. On the opera stage, Elene sang Papagena and the First Lady in Mozart´s Magic Flute at the Winter Theater in Sochi and as Tebaldo in Don Carlo at the Bolshoi Theatre. She also performed Mozart´s Great Mass in C minor at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory under the baton of Teodor Currentzis.
Elene and maestro Currentzis have had a fruitful collaboration over the past several years: from 2020 to 2022, Elene worked as a soloist of the musicAeterna choir under his direction. With the maestro she performed solo parts in Requiem (Faure) at Dom Radio in Saint Petersburg, Orf’s De temporum fine comoedia at the Diaghilev Festival and the Salzburg Festival where Elene also appeared as the First Witch in Dido and Aeneas in 2022.
In the 21-22 season, Elene performed solo parts in Carissimi’s Jephte at the Lutheran Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul in Saint Petersburg as well as Bach’s St John Passion and Mozart´s Exsultate, jubilate at the St. Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire. She could also be heard in Requiem (Schnittke) at the Mozarteum Salzburg under the baton of maestro Gregor A. Mayrhofer.
Elene has had the privilege of participating in world and Russian premieres of works by esteemed contemporary composers such as Alexey Retinsky, Philip Grange, Paul Archbold, Andreas Moustoukis, Alexander Manotskov among others. She also enjoys performing Renaissance and Baroque music, collaborating with authentic consorts at various venues across St. Petersburg and Moscow.
© CSAM, August 2023
