Elena Frolova
Jelena Borisovna Frolova (Russian: Елена Борисовна Фролова; born October 1, 1969 in Riga, Latvian SSR) is a Russian singer, composer and poet. They set to music and sings poems of Russian authors of the twentieth century and their own.
Biography
Born in Riga Frolova began at the age of twelve to start writing his own plays and performed 15 -year-old on the first time. She won numerous vocal and music competitions, including the second All-Union Art Song Festival in 1988 in Tallinn. From 1989 she worked as an actress in the " Moscow Theatre of Music and Poetry" by Jelena Kamurowa. Since 1991, Frolova sings on solo tours in Russia, Western Europe and Israel.
1996 learned Yelena Frolova with the Gusli a new instrument, with whom she also maintains Russian folklore other songs. She is one of a few Russian bards who use both the Gusli how the guitar as an accompanying instrument. In December 2003, her solo album " Zerkalo " ( Mirror ) was presented at the Maison des Cultures du Monde in Paris.
During 25 years of public presence, Frolova developed over 700 songs and released more than 40 albums. Besides own songs, she set to music poems by Marina Tsvetaeva, Osip Mandelstam, Anna Akhmatova, Sofia Parnok, Joseph Brodsky, Anna Barkova, Boris Pasternak, Maria Petrowych, Mikhail Kuzmin, Veniamin Blaschenny and others.
Yelena Frolova participated in 2003 in the congress "The historical experience of the Soviet Communist totalitarianism: the opposition to the Gulag " in Milan with a program on poems by Varlam Schalamow and Anna Barkova. In March 2004, she represented Russia at the first international festival "Eurasia Diva" in Moscow. Frolova is a member of the post-Soviet Russian Writers' Union.