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Elizaveta Ivanova is, since 2022, Associate Principal Flute of Frankfurt Opera and Museum orchestra and previously,from 2017 to 2022, she held the same position at the St. Petersburg symphonic orchestra.

Born in 1997 in Estonia in a musical family, Elizaveta started studying music very early. After some years of piano lessons, she started to play flute on the age of 12. From 2009 until 2014 she studied in St. Petersburg music Lyceum in the class of Vladimir Ushakov and then continued the education in St. Petersburg State conservatory with prof. Olga Chernyadeva and Ksenia Kuelyar where in 2021 also made a post graduation degree. At the same year entered to the Academy of music in Basel (Switzerland) to the class of prof. Felix Renggli and in 2023 finished Master Soloist program with the highest score. During the studies in Basel she was receiving a scholarship from the Lyra Foundation (Zürich, Switzerland).

In 2023 Elizaveta won a First prize of the Geneva International Competition, where she was also mentioned with a few special prizes such as Arts Society prize, Soufflee prize, and a Rose-Marie Huguenin prize.

She is also a prize winner of several Flute competitions such as Crusell Flute competition in Finland, Cluj International flute competition in Romania, Maxence Larrieu flute competition in France, and was also admitted to the semifinal of Kobe flute competition in Japan. As a part of woodwind quintet “St. Petersburg Winds” also won prizes at several chamber music competitions in Russia.

In 2024 Elizaveta has been selected as a BBC New Generation Artist from September 2024 for two years.

Elizaveta regularly performs in a chamber music groups and as a soloist with different orchestras such as Transylvania philharmonic orchestra, Meinigen Hofkapelle, Frankfurter Philharmonie and appears on various music festivals (Lubljana music festival, Austrian flute festival etc).