Elena graduated from the choral and conducting faculty of the Novosibirsk State Conservatory of Music. She has sung leading roles in various opera projects of the Novosibirsk State Philharmonic Society: Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, and Handel’s Acis and Galatea. Elena conducts a children’s choir and has a career as a solo vocalist.