| Education |
| Svetlana Elenkova, piano teacher and accompanist, earned her MA in Piano and Pedagogies with honors from the Academy of Music and Dance Arts and studied with Rada Stambolova and Professor George Kanev. She also took master classes with Prof. Kamenikova in Weimar, Germany. |
| Performing and
Teaching Experience |
| Svetlana has over twenty years of teaching experience. She was on the staff of the Academy of Music and Dance Arts and the San Jose Cleveland Ballet, and is a current staff member at San Jose State University and faculty member at Stanford University. Svetlana has twenty-five years of performance experience and gives one to three performances annually. She has played in recitals, for choral groups, singers, and ballets. She is particularly interested in playing classical music and teaching music theory and history. |
| At CSMA |
| Svetlana has been a member of the CSMA Music Faculty since 1997. |
| Teaching Philosophy and Approach |
| With her strong teaching background, Svetlana believes that, as a teacher, it is important to inspire within her students a "personal motivation for growth and perfection, desire for higher goals, and excellence in performance on recitals; to build a complete understanding of playing music (composer, style, structure, and harmony)." The result of this, she says, "is a unique music personality with high self-confidence." |
| Personal |
| "I love all art forms, nature, people, animals, food, and life!" |
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