Bio

Elizaveta is a multilingual opera-pop singer, songwriter, pianist, and producer.

Born in New York City to diplomat parents, Elizaveta grew up in Moscow, Russia. She began playing piano and writing songs at the age of five. Her childhood was full of music, but also shadowed by fears of potential fallout from a major head trauma she experienced as a baby, which left her with mild synesthesia and a history of sleepwalking. At 15, she left home and embarked on a three-year journey through Europe, where she studied herbal alchemy in an Italian monastery, performed in nightclubs, and eventually majored in piano and opera performance at the Prague Academy of Music.

She later moved to Los Angeles and earned a degree in opera and composition from the University of Southern California. In 2011, she signed with Universal Republic Records and began working with Grammy-winning producer Greg Wells, who helped shape her distinctive style. The result was her 2012 major-label debut, Beatrix Runs, featuring the iTunes Song of the Week, “Dreamer.”

Elizaveta soon became known for fusing opera, electronica, classical, and soul into what she calls “opera-pop.” In 2013, she left Universal and launched her own label, Flower Army Records. In 2014, her self-produced track “Hero” from the Hero EP was remixed by electronic duo Pegboard Nerds and featured in the viral video Superman with a GoPro. The track’s popularity led Monstercat to launch an official remix competition. To date, it has garnered over 70 million views on YouTube—and continues to be remixed by producers around the world.

Around this time, Elizaveta also became deeply interested in live looping. It has since become a centerpiece of her live shows, where she layers vocals, beats, instruments, and textures to build tracks and sonic landscapes in real time.

Elizaveta’s voice and songwriting have appeared in a wide range of game and music projects, including her role as the singing tavern bard Maryden Halewell in the hit game Dragon Age: Inquisition. She has also collaborated with Russian rock duo B-2, with their duet topping Russian pop charts. Her sophomore album Messenger was written, produced, and arranged by Elizaveta herself and mixed by six-time Grammy winner Rob Chiarelli. That same year, she released Breakfast with Chopin, a classical crossover album issued in Japan via Respect Record.

Elizaveta toured across Japan with Scott Murphy, performing music from their Japanese-language duet album 目覚める理由 (Reasons to Wake Up). As the pandemic struck, she moved her performances online via Twitch livestreams. Over two and a half years, she created hundreds of improvised songs using piano, vocals, looping electronics—even incorporating children’s instruments and toys—and built a new, devoted fanbase. During this time, Monstercat released a Stonebank remix of “SOS,” Sony Records featured a trance remix of her ballad “Icarus” by Nigel Stanford, and she composed the song-based score for the hit prime-time TV drama Тест на Беременность (Pregnancy Test) in Moscow. The songs she wrote for the series went viral, with fans searching for them online even before their official release.

After the sudden loss of her mother in an accident, Elizaveta returned to Los Angeles and began writing her most personal album to date, Liza. She learned to play ukulele during this time, and premiered many of the album’s acoustic songs in San Francisco and Los Angeles—marking her first public performances on the instrument. She also released Hero Returns, a follow-up to her earlier indie hit, which featured collaborations with Jonathan Paulsen, Mitchell Broom, and Varien, as well as an acoustic version of “Hero” incorporating traditional Japanese koto.

2025 has marked a creative rebirth for Elizaveta. She has launched a 100-song release challenge to be completed within the year. She has already released two singles, including the duet “Another Step” with beloved Fukuoka-based pianist Pianoman Darrell, followed by the full-length album Spring Songs On The Fly—her most intimate and emotionally raw collection to date, with many tracks created live in the moment. A follow-up acoustic jazz album is slated for release in July.

She has also begun bringing her live improvisation practice—developed during the pandemic—into physical performance spaces. She created and led interactive improvisation workshops in both English and Japanese, where audiences became part of the music-making process. Using looping, voice, piano, ukulele, and layered textures, she crafts unique sonic landscapes live on stage. Each show is recorded and improvised in real time, making no two performances alike.

She is currently scoring an animated project and working on a Japanese-themed opera, to be revealed in 2026.

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