Elena Gutina

* 1987, Minsk

Education:

2015/2017 Hochschule für Musik Freiburg (film music, M.Mus.)
2014/2015 European College of Liberal Arts in Belarus (mass culture and media)
2006/2013 Belarusian State Academy of Music (piano, composition)

Employment:

Belarusian State Academy of Music, Composition department, lecturer (2017-2020)
Member of the Union of Belarusian Composers (since 2014)

Projects:

“Tramontana” contemporary music festival, Minsk, 2017-2019
“Kinemo” silent film festival, Minsk, 2013-2014, 2018-2019
“Russische Kulturtage 2017” festival, Freiburg
“The Gold of Silence” silent film festival, Minsk, 2011-2012
“Freygish”, ensemble of jewish music, Minsk, 2009-2012

Music for theater:

«The Old Woman’s Route» by Timofei Tkachev and Anna Sagalchik
(Saint Petersburg, premiere 06.09.2020)

«Lowlife» by Timofei Tkachev based on Pavel Pryazhko’s text «Three days in hell»
(Republican Theater of Belarusian Drama, premiere 29.11.2017)

«Autumn fantasies of Eeyore» by Natalia Slascheva
(Gomel Puppet Theater, premiere 12.11.2012)

Honors and awards:

Prize Holder of the French-Belarusian Association “La vie en Musique” 2012
Laureate of the International Competition of Young Composers (1st prize) (Grodno, Belarus, 2010)
Laureate of the International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition (2nd prize) (Szafarnia, Poland, 2005)
Laureate of the International Piano Competition “PRO PIANO-ROMANIA” (2nd prize) (Bucharest, 2004)