Elizaveta Gamaris

Elizaveta Gamaris was born in Moscow in 2012. At the age of six, she enrolled in the Gnessin State Specialized Secondary Music School, and since 2020, she has been studying in the class of Anton Prishchepa. She has attended masterclasses led by Milan Rerich, Carsten Eckert, Evgeny Petrov, Viktor Kulyk, Kirill Rybakov, Sergey Yeletsky, and many other distinguished musicians.

At just 14 years of age, she has already been awarded First Prizes and Grand Prix titles at over 20 national and international competitions, including Nouvelles Étoiles in Paris, Golden Talents in Madrid, Wind Stars and the Crystal Cup in Latvia, the Gnessin Competition, Moscow Wind, and Music Prospect in Moscow, Clarinetino in Nizhny Novgorod, the Sergei Rachmaninov Competition in St. Petersburg, as well as the Igor Stravinsky and Dmitri Shostakovich competitions in St. Petersburg, among others.

She holds the prestigious title of Henri Selmer Young Talents Artist (2026). She won the 24th International Television Competition for Young Musicians Nutcracker (Golden Nutcracker, 2023) and the Regional Open Competition Soloist of the Orchestra in Vladimir (Grand Prix, 2025). She was also a finalist in the All-Russian Television Competition for Young Talents Blue Bird (2024).

Elizaveta is a scholarship recipient of the New Names Foundation, the Yuri Rozum Foundation, and the Vladimir Spivakov Foundation, and is a participant in the New Names Summer Creative School in Suzdal.

She has performed with leading orchestras in the halls of the Moscow Conservatory, the Svetlanov Hall of the Moscow International House of Music, the Zaryadye Concert Hall, the Grand Hall of the St. Petersburg Academic Philharmonia named after D.D. Shostakovich, and the St. Petersburg State Capella. Her performances have also taken place in the concert halls of the Novosibirsk, Kaluga, Orenburg, Voronezh, and Kurgan Philharmonics, the Nizhny Novgorod Conservatory, and many other prestigious venues.

She has participated in numerous festivals, including Moscow Meets Friends organized by the Vladimir Spivakov Foundation, Green Noise curated by Ekaterina Mechetina (Surgut, Khanty-Mansiysk), Musical Olympus (St. Petersburg), Alma Mater: "New Names" in Suzdal under the artistic direction of Denis Matsuev, Dilijan Forte by Sergey Smbatyan (Armenia), and Dialogue of Generations directed by Denis Matsuev.