Jelena Horvat & Svitlana Kosenko

Jelena Horvat Violin
Svitlana Kosenko Piano

Serbian violinist Jelena Horvat has performed as a soloist, chamber, and orchestral musician in venues including the Menuhin Hall and Kings Place and Liszt Academy Grand Hall in Hungary. Jelena’s 2025 Spring/Summer season included solo debuts at St Martin-in-the-Fields and the 1901 Arts Club as part of the Hattori Foundation Recital Series. Jelena received the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Emily Anderson Prize, as well as 1st prize at the Eastbourne Symphony Orchestra Young Soloist Competition 2022. A graduate of the Yehudi Menuhin School, Jelena is currently studying at the Royal College of Music as a Rose Williams Scholar under the guidance of Radu Blidar.

Svitlana Kosenko was born in Ukraine and studied at Kharkiv Special Music School and Kharkiv University of Arts. A laureate of international competitions, she won top prizes in the Paris French-Polish Music (1999), Smetana (2001), Enescu (2001), and Joseph Suder (2012) competitions. Svitlana has worked as a staff pianist at The Yehudi Menuhin School and is currently working at the Royal College of Music as an accompanist.

Programme

Dvořák arr. Kreisler Songs My Mother Taught Me, Op. 55, B. 104: No. 4
Enescu Violin Sonata No. 3 in A minor “dans le caractère populaire roumain” Op. 25
Janáček Dumka Op. 2
Ravel Tzigane, M. 76