Artist Bio (from the French Music Export Office)
lena Frolova was born in 1971 in Riga (Latvia), where she spent her childhood and teenage years. Whilst still a child, she joined music and singing clubs. In 1988 she was a prize-winner at the second pan-Soviet festival of song and lyrics held in Tallinn. Then she made solo and duo appearances throughout Russia and Germany.

In 1992 Elena received the Vera Matveeva Award and she was a permanent artist at the Theatre of Music and Poetry founded by Elena Kamburova in Moscow, which has rapidly become the major centre for the tradition of the poetic song.

Her repertoire is rich and varied, and includes numerous poets from the first half of the 20th century as well as contemporary poets. She also sings her own works.

Her musical compositions are not just an accompaniment for the poetic texts, she has set herself the task of finding a musical form whose sounds and resonance correspond to the sound and sense of the poems. This kind of work requires a deep sensitivity to poetry, a well-developed intuitive musical sense, a good knowledge of a wide variety of musical styles and the ability to handle them with skill. Thus Elena Frolova uses her voice and musical talent so that the poems become songs.

Elena Frolova is one of the most brilliant artists of the new generation devoted to this tradition, those who dare to sing work by the great names of Russian poetry, in Russia today.