Elena Dyadyanova is a mezzo‑soprano.
After graduating from the Vladimir Regional Music College, she studied from 2008 to 2013 at the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music in the Solo Singing Department. After completing her studies in 2013 she entered the Master’s programme and then the assistant traineeship in the class of Natalia A. Dmitrieva, Honoured Cultural Worker of Mongolia, Associate Professor and Dean of the Vocal Faculty.
She began her teaching career while still a student at the Gnesin Academy: from 2009 to 2012 she taught in the opera studio of the F. I. Shalyapin Children’s Music School in Moscow, and from 2012 to 2015 she taught «Solo Singing» at the P. M. Yershov Institute of Theatre Arts. Since 2018 she has served as Coordinator of the «Solo Singing» programme at the Gnesin Academy’s Music School.
E. A. Dyadyanova pursues an active artistic, teaching‑methodological, research, and outreach career.
She is a laureate of all‑Russian and international competitions. From 2008 to 2014 she was a soloist of the Y. A. Speransky Opera Studio at the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, where she sang the roles of Larina (Tchaikovsky «Eugene Onegin»), Polina (Tchaikovsky «The Queen of Spades»), and La Ciesca (Puccini «Gianni Schicchi»).
In 2011 and 2013 she took part in the Spanish‑Russian Summer School organised by the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music and the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya (ESMUC), which included concerts and masterclasses with leading vocal pedagogues.
In 2013, as part of the creative school in Spain, she performed the role of Mrs Grose in Benjamin Britten’s opera «The Turn of the Screw».
She has taught in Solo Singing Department No. 1 at the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music since 2016.
Publications:
- «On Overcoming Stage Fright in the Artistic Activity of an Opera Singer» in Proceedings of the 20th Jubilee Vocal‑Practical Conference «Dmitriyev Readings» (22 April 2019), Moscow: Buki Vedi, 2019, pp. 46–54, ISBN 978‑5‑4465‑2519‑5;
- «On Certain Aspects of Working on Phonological Skills in the Process of Learning Vocal Works by Foreign Students in the Solo Singing Class» in Proceedings of the 7th Research and Practical Conference‑Seminar «Perspectives on the Development of Vocal Education» (1 March 2020), in Voprosy vokalnogo obrazovaniya, Moscow, Saint Petersburg, 2020, pp. 174–178, ISBN 978‑5‑8269‑0255‑4.
