Elena Langer is a prolific composer of colourful, dramatic and often humorous music, familiar to audiences across Europe and America through her operatic, vocal and orchestral pieces.

The British-Russian composer studied at both the Tchaikovsky Conservatoire in Moscow and at the Royal Academy of Music in London.

Her works have been performed at Zurich Opera, Carnegie Hall, the Grand Theatre Geneva, Opera National du Rhin, Strasbourg, Welsh National Opera, Shakespeare’s Globe, Hong Kong Academy of Arts, the Linbury Theatre at Covent Garden, the Tokyo Theatre and Boston Symphony Hall.