Assistant Professor, University of Arizona
Prizewinner of the Aleksander Glazunov International Competition (Paris), Dr. Elena Chernova-Davis enjoys a multifaceted career as a soloist, chamber musician, and concertmaster in her native Uzbekistan and throughout the United States. She is Assistant Professor of Violin at the University of Arizona School of Music, and has previously been on faculty at the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University and the John J. Cali School of Music, Montclair University.
Elena has worked with conductors such as Bernard Haitink, Esa Pekka-Salonen, Gerard Schwarz, Miguel Harth-Bedoya, and Jeffrey Tate, and has performed with ensembles including the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, New York City Ballet Orchestra, the New Jersey Symphony, and the Latin GRAMMY award-winning Pedro Giraudo Tango Quartet. She has appeared in venues including Carnegie Hall’s Isaac Stern Auditorium, Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, Le Poisson Rouge, Madison Square Garden, and Radio City Music Hall. As a doctoral candidate at Rutgers University, Elena was the recipient of the Concertmaster Fellowship and the Irene Alm Memorial Award for excellence in performance and scholarly research. Her major teachers include Shmuel Ashkenazi, Mihail Kopelman, Elmar Oliveira, and Misha Vitenson.