{{short description|American pianist of Russian birth|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{BLP sources|date=April 2010}} '''Elena Braslavsky''' is a pianist of Russian birth. Since the early 1980s, Braslavsky has had an active international performance career in both the concert and chamber music repertoire. Formerly a faculty member at the Juilliard School and the Mannes School of Music, Braslavsky currently serves on the piano faculty of the Mozarteum University of Salzburg.<ref name=Salzburg>{{cite web|url=http://www.ensemble-salzburg.com/en/profile1/index.shtml |title=Ensemble Salzburg |year=2006 |accessdate=2015-01-16 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120305141953/http://www.ensemble-salzburg.com/en/profile1/index.shtml |archivedate=March 5, 2012 }}</ref>
== Early life and education == Braslavsky began studying the piano in Moscow when she was five years old. She graduated from the Gnessin School of Music in 1979. She later pursued studies at the Juilliard School with Leonard Eisner, Nadia Reisenberg, and Oxana Yablonskaya, earning a Doctor of Music from Juilliard in 1991. As a DAAD and Fulbright Scholar, she studied at the Hochschule für Musik Köln and at the European Mozart Academy.<ref>{{cite web|date=May 6, 2009|title=May 6th, 2009 -Wonderful Harmony - Concert by Ensemble Salzburg, Austria|url=http://shanghai.cultural-china.com/html/Arts---Culture/Information-of-Expo---Show/Concert/200904/02-2873.html|url-status=dead|work=shanghai.cultural-china.com|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708214208/http://shanghai.cultural-china.com/html/Arts---Culture/Information-of-Expo---Show/Concert/200904/02-2873.html|archivedate=2011-07-08}}</ref>
== Career == Braslavsky has appeared as a soloist with numerous orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic, the New Jersey Symphony, the Salzburg Chamber Soloists, the Cracow Philharmonic, the Warsaw Camerata, and the North Czech Philharmonic among others. As a recitalist and chamber musician she has performed at the Aix-en-Provence Festival, the Théâtre des Champs Elysées in Paris, the Konzerthaus Berlin, and Alice Tully Hall in New York City's Lincoln Center among others. In addition to the piano, Braslavsky is known to play the harpsichord.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Écully. Concert de musique baroque à la chapelle de Valpré ce dimanche|url=https://www.leprogres.fr/culture-loisirs/2022/02/03/concert-de-musique-baroque-a-la-chapelle-de-valpre-ce-dimanche|access-date=2022-02-17|website=www.leprogres.fr|language=FR-fr}}</ref>
She often plays with cellist Jeremy Findlay with whom she has actively performed and recorded works since 1994. Czech composer Jiří Gemrot has written numerous pieces for the couple, including the ''Double Concerto for Cello, Piano and Orchestra'' which they performed in its premiere at the Rudolfinum in Prague with the Prague Philharmonia. She currently resides in New York with her daughter Alyssa.
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==External links== *[http://www.braslavsky-findlay.com/pages/elena.htm Bio of Elena Braslavsky at braslavsky-findlay.com]
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