Elena Lavrenov, first violin
1.Name:
Lavrenov
2. First name:
Elena
3. Date of birth:
November 27th 1984 (sagitarius), first nationality Bulgarian
4. Musical experience, since when do you play the violin?
Cf. C.V., since the age of five and a half
5. Brothers and sisters:
Three brothers and one sister
6. Musical inheritance from:
My parents are musicians and my grandmother was a passionate singer
7. Who influenced you in your music?
My parents
8. Are you busy fulltime with your music?
Yes, it has always been my primary occupation, even before school, before sports
9. Favourite artist:
Queen, The Beatles,... in classical music Vadim Repin, Maxim Vengerov
10. Are you ambitious?
Very ambitious, I hope to improve myself more, so I can become a great soloist and to please the public even more with The Exclusive Strings.
11. How do you spend the day?
Every day is different. Usually I get up early and have breakfast, then I play the violin for one hour before I leave. Once a week I have course at the Royal Conservatory of Liège and afterwards I usually have lunch with my friends from the Exclusive Strings. In the afternoon I study again and at 5 pm I teach violin to young pupils. At the end of the afternoon we rehearse, often with the Exclusive Strings. In the evening, when we have no concert, I have supper about 9 pm with my boyfriend or my family, they like it very much when we visit them. I never go to bed early. Sunday morning I do sports with Nancy and Blandine.
12. What do you want to achieve with your music?
Music gives me great pleasure, playing as well as listening. Especially with concerts you can share your happiness with others. I would like to travel by my music, but I prefer to play chamber music together with other musicians.
13. Musical background and education
Elena was born in 1984 in Uccle, from a family of professional musicians. Already at a very young age she showed her undisputable musical and artistic qualities.
She was only five years old when R. Pieta, concert leader at the Philharmonic Orchestra of Liège, accepted her as pupil. She also studied for several years with her father E. Lavrenov and mother M.B. Plumier, both artists with the OPL and with the Royal Opera of Wallonia
In 1999 the chamber music orchestra for young people “La vraie Note” was founded and she became first violinist. As a child she successfully attended the Ch. de Bériot contest in Brussels and the young talent contest in Maastricht. She performed regularly as soloist or with a chamber orchestra.
In 2002 she graduated at the L. de Waha lyceum with the first prize of the school and the English language.
With the orchestra LVN she toured in Holland, France, Italy, Spain and also Sweden. In April 2001 she toured in Great Britain with an Italian orchestra.
In 2002 she joined the violin class of P. Koch at the Royal Music Conservatory of Liège. She succeeded in her first and second candidateship and two licenses with honour.
In March 2005 she participated as concert leader in the International Festival of Young Musicians in Murcia, Spain and she won the First Prize in the violin contest. That’s why she was invited the next year to perform the 5th Concerto of Mozart with the Young Musicians Orchestra in Murcia.
She is now doing her 3rd license at the Royal Conservatory of Liège.