Elena Gabbrielli completed her musical and philosophical studies in Venice, studying at the Conservatory of Music “Benedetto Marcello” and at the University “Ca ́Foscari”.
Other notable teachers for her musical formation have been the musicians Pier Narciso Masi, Patrick Gallois and Chiara Tonelli. In addition to the study of the classical flute repertoire, she has developed a special interest for new music and she has completed the Master of Practice Performance in Contemporary Music at the University of Music in Graz (A), under the guidance of Klangforum Wien.
Nowadays Elena lives in Vienna and plays around the Europe as a soloist, chamber and ensemble musician, mostly focusing on contemporary music. She has performed at international venues such as Wiener Konzerthaus, Radiokulturhaus ORF, Salzburger Festspiele, Mozarteum Stiftung, musikprotokoll Graz, Wien Modern, Opéra Comédie Montpellier, Festival dei due Mondi Spoleto, Ravenna Festival, Archipel Festival Genève, Kalv Festivalen, GAIDA Vilnius, Vancouver New Music, Shangai Spring Festival in collaboration with Klangforum Wien, der/gelbe/klang, Black Page Orchestra, Neofonía, Schallfeld, mdi ensemble, RepertorioZero and others. She has worked with leading conductors Emilio Pomàrico, Marco Angius, Sylvain Cambreling, Pierre-André Valade, Ilan Volkov and composers George Friedrich Haas, Tristan Murail, Raphaël Cendo, Rebecca Saunders, Philippe Leroux, Pierluigi Billone, Mathias Spahlinger, Beat Furrer. She has already realized numerous premieres as a solist or in ensemble and her performances has been regularly broadcasted by SWR, BR Klassik, ORF, RAI, RTS - Espace 2.
Additionally, she had the chance to give masterclasses for composers and performers in different academic institutions such as Tiroler Landeskonservatorium -Innsbruck, Anadolu Üniversitesi - Eskişehir , Bilkent University -Ankara, State Tchaikovsky Conservatory – Moscow, Royal Academy Aarhus, Academy of Music – Göteborg.
In 2022 she was a guest lecturer for contemporary music performance practice at the Mozarteum University of Salzburg. 
From 2023 she holds a lectureship for contemporary flute at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna.

She is a member of ensemble zeitfluss and ensemble xxi.jahrhundert.

With the quartet airborne extended, she devotes herself passionately to contemporary chamber music for the unusual combination flutes, harp, recorders/Paetzold and harpsichord.

Elena received recognizable scholarships for her activities in the field of contemporary music from the Italian Ministry of Culture (MiBACT) and the START-Stipendium from the Austrian Federal Chancellery (BKA).

ANIMÆ - solo concerto for flute

The soul (from the Latin anima, connected with the Greek ànemos, in German "Atem", "wind") is in many religions, traditions and philosophies the vital and spiritual part of a living being, commonly regarded as distinct from the physical body. The instrument that most directly embodies and comes closest to the breath is the flute, as many ritual musical traditions indicate.  Hence the idea of re-celebrating this monodic instrument in connection with the ancient tradition through a contemporary repertoire solo program.The concert is conceived as an example of the complexity of simplicity: a single (simple) sound source opens and shows its own multiplicity of animae (an unexpected and hidden inner complexity). Animae in this sense means several facades of the soul - for example, reason, feeling, thought, will.The multiform works are images of these different facets. They translated into possible sound worlds in which the flute multiplies, splits into words, transforms into a magical object or intensifies with singing the voice of the instrumentalists.

In addition to the already musical activities as individual freelance, Anna and Elena are dedicating themselves to the foundation of a new duo for voice and flute, born through the passion for chamber work and contemporary music.

18th January, 19:30
Gleis 21, Wien (AT)
PRISM - Konzert VIII
airborne extended
Music by I.ter Schiporst, G.Magnanensi, K.Klement, M.Ferek-Petric, Y.Levy

19th-22th January
Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart (DE)
Residence at Akademie Schloss Solitude
Work by Solitude Fellow Rachel C.Walker
POSTPONED

21th January
SWR,Funkstudio, Kammermusiksaal, Stuttgart (DE)
SWR2 Neue Musik - Recording Session
Works by R.C.Walker, M.Laskowski, A.Arkushyna
POSTPONED

25th February, 19:30
reaktor, Wien (AT)
PRISM - Konzert IX
airborne extended
Music by P.Jakober, Rachel C.Walker, K. Krzewiński, M.Kranebitter, S.Sciarrino

21th March, 19:30
Berio Saal, Konzerthaus, Wien (AT)
ensemble xxi.jahrhundert
Music by P.Billone, B.Lang, A.Thorvaldsdottir, Y.Pagh-Paan

24th March, 19:30
Slovenian cultural Centre Korotan - Wien (AT)
airborne extended +Barbara Jernejčič Fürst
Works by A.Bajde, U.Pompe, E.Ralli, T.Bajželj, Ž.Čopi, T. Svete, C.Nachtmann, U.Rojko

26th March, 19:30
Viteška dvorana v Križankah, Ljubljana (SLO)
airborne extended +Barbara Jernejčič Fürst
Works by A.Bajde, U.Pompe, E.Ralli, T.Bajželj, Ž.Čopi, T. Svete, C.Nachtmann, U.Rojko

28th April, 19:30
Berio Saal, Konzerthaus, Wien (AT)
ensemble xxi.jahrhundert
Music by A.Kaiser, F.Filidei, R.Saunders, C.Bauckholdt, J.Repečkaitė

12th May, 19:30
reaktor, Wien (AT)
Suena Festival
Platypus Ensemble
Works by M.Jimenez, N.Gimenez Comas, F.Aoki Navarro, J.M. Sanchez Verdú

13th May, 19:30
reaktor, Wien (AT)
PRISM -Konzert X
airborne extended
Works by A.Maxbauer, E.Daglik, A.Lucier, E.Ralli, U. Oztekin, A.Olszewski

12th June, 19:00
Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart (DE)
APOTHEOSE
airborne extended + Jan Nicola Augemann
new music meets new visual arts
works by E.Schimana, M.Poleukhina, U.Öztekin, R.C.Walker

13th June, 18:30
Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart (DE)

airborne extended
Work by Rachel C.Walker

14th June
SWR,Funkstudio, Kammermusiksaal, Stuttgart (DE)
SWR2 Neue Musik - Recording Session
Porträt airborne extended
Works by Rachel C.Walker, M.Laskowski, A.Arkushyna

25th Juni, 20:00
Minoritensaal, Graz (AT)
ensemble zeitfluss
Works by E.Harnik, J.P.Trad Hasbun, P.Zandi, E.Carter

24th July, 19:00
György-Ligeti Saal, Mumuth, Graz (AT)
impuls festival 2023
airborne extended
Works by H.Kerschbaumer, M.Kerer, O.Hübner, M.Zwerger, A.Kaiser, B.Lang

1st October, 12:00
reaktor, Wien (AT)
PRISM - Konzert XI
airborne extended
Works by A.Kaiser, A.Bauer, Z.Seglias, S.Öggl

2nd October, 19:30
reaktor, Wien (AT)
star me kitten
Platypus ensemble
Works by A.Schubert, S.Park, M.Beil, J.Wolfson, M.Giesen, F.Romitelli

23rd October, 19:30
reaktor, Wien (AT)
Platypus ensemble
tba

6th-12th November, Nicosia (CY)
ensemble zeitfluss // Zypern Projekt
Cyprus New music festival
tba

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