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Elena Stojcheska
Flute
France
Years active: 2021, 2024
Elena Stojceska was born in Skopje. After completing secondary music education at the State Music and Ballet Educational Centre "Ilija Nikolovski–Luj" (class of Prof. Beti Stankovska), she continued her studies in Paris and Italy, where she graduated, earned a master's degree, and specialized in flute, piccolo flute, and pedagogy in the classes of leading professors Pierre-Yves Artaud, Peter-Lukas Graf, Vincent Lucas, and Pierre Dumail. She also completed masterclasses with renowned professors including Aurèle Nicolet, Irena Grafenauer, Patrick Gallois, Benoît Fromanger, Félix Renggli, and others.
She has won first prizes at several international competitions, including AudiMozart in Italy, the European Competition, and the Gaston Crunelle and Buffet Crampon competitions in France, as well as first prizes for flute and chamber music at national competitions in Macedonia and the former SFRY.
As a soloist she has performed with the Bolzano Symphony Orchestra (Italy), the Bacău Symphony Orchestra (Romania), Orchestre Paul Kuentz, Orchestre d'Auvergne, the French Flute Orchestra, Ensemble Bonsai, and the Macedonian Philharmonic. She has also performed as a member of various orchestras including Divertimento, Padeloup, the International Philharmonic Orchestra, the Alliance Orchestra, and others under conductors such as Wolfgang Döerner, Hervé Niquet, John Nelson, Mykola Diadiura, Marcello Panni, Sébastien Rouland, Nicolas André, and Pejman Memarzadeh.
From 2005 to 2011 she was principal flute of Ensemble Bonsai, and in 2011 she formed the duo SoliPs with French guitarist Romain Petiot. As a chamber musician she has performed across Europe and is regularly invited to festivals in France, England, the Netherlands, Italy, Bosnia, the Czech Republic, Belgium, and Russia, collaborating with artists such as Maja Bogdanović, Laure Favre-Kahn, Stéphanie-Marie Degand, Vahan Mardirossian, Vincent Peñot, and others.
After obtaining French citizenship and succeeding in the French state examinations for pedagogy, Elena Stojceska became a tenured flute professor at the Conservatoire of Paris Centre "W. A. Mozart" and the director of the Conservatoire of Livry-Gargan.
She has won first prizes at several international competitions, including AudiMozart in Italy, the European Competition, and the Gaston Crunelle and Buffet Crampon competitions in France, as well as first prizes for flute and chamber music at national competitions in Macedonia and the former SFRY.
As a soloist she has performed with the Bolzano Symphony Orchestra (Italy), the Bacău Symphony Orchestra (Romania), Orchestre Paul Kuentz, Orchestre d'Auvergne, the French Flute Orchestra, Ensemble Bonsai, and the Macedonian Philharmonic. She has also performed as a member of various orchestras including Divertimento, Padeloup, the International Philharmonic Orchestra, the Alliance Orchestra, and others under conductors such as Wolfgang Döerner, Hervé Niquet, John Nelson, Mykola Diadiura, Marcello Panni, Sébastien Rouland, Nicolas André, and Pejman Memarzadeh.
From 2005 to 2011 she was principal flute of Ensemble Bonsai, and in 2011 she formed the duo SoliPs with French guitarist Romain Petiot. As a chamber musician she has performed across Europe and is regularly invited to festivals in France, England, the Netherlands, Italy, Bosnia, the Czech Republic, Belgium, and Russia, collaborating with artists such as Maja Bogdanović, Laure Favre-Kahn, Stéphanie-Marie Degand, Vahan Mardirossian, Vincent Peñot, and others.
After obtaining French citizenship and succeeding in the French state examinations for pedagogy, Elena Stojceska became a tenured flute professor at the Conservatoire of Paris Centre "W. A. Mozart" and the director of the Conservatoire of Livry-Gargan.