Langer E. Transformations. For violin and piano

Elena Langer graduated from the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory where she studied composition, musicology and piano. 

In 1999 she moved to London to study with Julian Anderson at the Royal College of Music. She also studied at the Centre Acanthes (France) with Sofia Gubaidulina. Currently, she is working on a PhD at the Royal Academy of Music with Simon Bainbridge.

In February 2002 Elena was appointed the Jerwood Composer in Association with the Almeida Theatre in London.
In 2003 she received a Priaulx Rainier Prize for her short mono-opera Ariadne(2002). Some recent performances include: Platch(2001) for violin solo and string orchestra at St. Johns Smith Square, and subsequently at the Moscow Autumn Festival; “Coda” (2002) for organ at the Royal Festival Hall; "On Two Shores" (2002) for ensemble at the Queen Elizabeth Hall; short mono-opera Ariadne(2002) at the Almeida Opera Festival, at The Britten and Strauss Festival in Aldeburgh and at the Moscow Festival Vozvrazhenie; In the Dark (2003) for ensemble at the Gaudeamus Music Week (Netherlands); Late Autumn Lullaby I and Late Autumn Lullaby II (2003) at the Purcell Room.

Langers chamber opera The Girl of Sand (2003) was staged at the Almeida Opera Festival in summer of 2003; chamber opera The Umbrella, a collaboration with the poet and writer Lavinia Greenlaw, has been awarded development by The Genesis Foundation.

The piece “Transformations” for violin and piano was created in 1996. In 1998 according to the initiative of the violinist Roman Mints the new version appeared, while Roman Mints became its first performer. Together with the pianist Eugenia Chudinovich Mints recorded the piece to the CD at the Black Box, Great Britain.