Elena Yakovleva is the principal Piccoloist with the United States Navy Band since 2015. She also holds Piccolo/3rd Flute chair position with the Delaware Symphony since 2008 and the Maryland Symphony Orchestra since 2010.
Elena has performed with the Baltimore, Cleveland, and Annapolis Symphony Orchestras, the National Orchestra Institute, and the Kent-Blossom and Sun Festival in Singapore. Elena is also on the Flute faculty at the International School of Music in Bethesda.
Elena Yakovleva graduated from the Rachmaninoff Music College with Honors in Kaliningrad, Russia. She continued her studies at the Hochschule für Music Detmold and at the Folkwanghochschule Essen, Germany, studying under Prof. Wegner and Prof. Ott, and later, under renown Jeanne Baxtresser as a Performance Residence Program student at the Carnegie Mellon University on full scholarship.
Elena Yakovleva has received her Master of Music, GPD in Flute and Graduate Performance Diploma in Chamber Music with Marina Piccinini at Peabody Conservatory on full scholarship.
A scholarship recipient from the Russian Ministry of Culture, she was selected for the artist roster of Yehudi Menuhin’s Foundation “Live Music Now”, in 2006 she was a prizewinner in the New York Flute Club Competition and in 2011 prizewinner in the Baltimore Music Club Competition. Elena was chosen to perform solo with the United States Navy Band at the Military Tattoo in Norway in 2022.
