Elena Vladislavovna Orekhova

Orekhova Elena Vladislavovna is a highest-category teacher of special subjects in the conducting and choral department of the F. P. Pavlov Cheboksary Music College.

Honoured Worker of Culture of the Chuvash Republic.

Honoured Member of the Music Society of the Chuvash Republic.

Member of the Board of the All-Russian Choral Society (Chuvash branch) and member of the Association of Composers of Chuvashia.

Graduated from:

– the Glinka Gorky State Conservatory, conducting and choral faculty, 1985, class of Lev Konstantinovich Sivukhin.

– the Glinka Nizhny Novgorod State Conservatory, vocal faculty, 2000, class of L. B. Dudoladova.

During her years at the college E. V. Orekhova has trained specialists who work in cultural and arts institutions and organisations of the Chuvash Republic and beyond: Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, St Petersburg, Kazan, Krasnodar, Cheboksary and Novocheboksarsk. Many of E. V. Orekhova’s graduates went on to study at universities of culture and the arts: the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory, the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music, the V. S. Popov Academy of Choral Art, the Glinka Nizhny Novgorod State Conservatory, the Sobinov Saratov State Conservatory, the N. G. Zhiganov Kazan State Conservatory, the Chuvash State Institute of Culture and Arts and the I. N. Ulyanov Chuvash State University (Department of Arts).

The vocal ensembles “Cantabile”, “Abilita” and “Prestige” and students of E. V. Orekhova’s class — Nikolai Seloustyev, Marina Arutyunova, Alexandra Evdokimova, Tamara Ostashova, Irina Mikhailova, Anastasia Pavlova, Anastasia Vasilyeva, Sofia Sergeeva, Lana Smirnova, Varvara Lashmanova, Ella Yakusheva, Sofia Tokareva, Karolina Pogodina, Yulia Chaprasova, Anna Plechova, Alexandra Shishkova, Daria Nadezhdina — became laureates of international, all-Russian, republican and city music festivals and competitions:

“Mischievous Spring” (Nizhny Novgorod); “Conductor-Choirmaster” (Cheboksary); “Ringing Voices”; “Academy”, “Waltz of the Northern Venice” (St Petersburg); “Diamonds of Russia”, “Art Caravan”, “Running on the Waves”, “Revival of Russia” (Moscow); “White Acacia” (Yoshkar-Ola, Cheboksary); “Yanrav”, “Songs of the Motherland”, “Shusam”, “Dawn”, “About You, My Chuvashia”, “Kaleidoscope of Talents”; “Let Us Delight Our Friends with a Song” (Cheboksary); “Vocation”, “Spring Thaws” (Kazan); “Inspiration” (Ulyanovsk), the International Choral Festival (Rybinsk), “Vocal Mastery of the Conductor” (Oryol) and others.

The Head of the Chuvash Republic awarded scholarships “For Special Creative Aspiration” to the students of E. V. Orekhova’s class Anastasia Pavlova, Alexandra Shishkova and Karolina Pogodina.

The project “Museum of the History of Musical and Educational Culture of Chuvashia”, led by E. V. Orekhova, was awarded a grant by the Head of the Chuvash Republic for supporting innovative projects in culture and the arts (August 2016).

Elena Vladislavovna takes an active part in organising and holding:

- international, all-Russian, republican and city vocal and choral competitions-festivals “Nightingales”, “Lark”, “On the Volga Expanses”, “Flowers of Chuvashia”, “On the Waves of Victory” and others;

- thematic concerts at the F. P. Pavlov Cheboksary Music College, educational and cultural institutions, and medical institutions of Chuvashia, in Rybinsk, St Petersburg, Moscow and elsewhere.

E. V. Orekhova continually improves her professional skills: she regularly attends master classes and in-service training courses and takes part in scientific and practical conferences of leading teachers of Russia and Chuvashia.

E. V. Orekhova is active as a concert performer, with solo performances and performances by her students at various venues of the city and the republic. There are archive recordings of works by Chuvash composers on Chuvash television and radio.

E. V. Orekhova has been a member of the jury of all-Russian, republican and city festivals-competitions of vocal and choral art: “Lark”, “Nightingales”, “On the Volga Expanses”, “Songs of the Motherland”, “On the Waves of Victory”, “Ringing Voices”, “Talents of Our City”, “Ringing-Voiced Childhood” and others.

For her many years of fruitful work in the musical education of students, active trade-union work, methodological and concert activity and participation in music and professional competitions and festivals, E. V. Orekhova has received Certificates of Honour, Diplomas and Letters of Gratitude from the Ministry of Education and Youth Policy of the Chuvash Republic, the Ministry of Culture, Nationalities and Archives of the Chuvash Republic and of Russia, the Administration of Cheboksary and districts of the Chuvash Republic, the Chairman of the Russian Trade Union of Culture Workers, the administration of the F. P. Pavlov Cheboksary Music College, the Ministry of Culture of Chuvashia, and heads of republican and city cultural and educational institutions of the Chuvash Republic and Russia.