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 began to play flute on the age of 12. From 2009 until 2014 she studied in St. Petersburg Music Lyceum and then continued the education in St. Petersburg State Conservatory where in 2021 also made a post-graduated degree. At the same year entered to the Musik-Akademie Basel (class of 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.
In 2023 Elizaveta won a First prize and some special prizes (Prix Société des Arts, Prix Souffle, Prix Rose-Marie Huguenin) at the Geneva International Competition. She is also a prize winner of several other Flute competitions such as Crusell, Cluj or Maxence Larrieu. As a member of woodwind quintet “St. Petersburg Winds” she also won prizes at several chamber music competitions in Russia. In 2024 Elizaveta has been selected as a BBC New Generation Artist for two years.
Elizaveta regularly performs in 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 or Austrian Flute Festival).