Harp

Luiza Mintsaeva

In the orchestra since 2024

She was born in Moscow in the family of an opera singer, soloist of the Bolshoi Theatre of Russia. She started studying music at the age of four, trying different directions, and chose the harp at the age of nine. In 2014, Luisa Mintsaeva graduated from the Chopin Moscow State College of Musical Performance (harp class of the People’s Artist of Russia, Professor Emilia Moskvitina), and later the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory (in 2019 — the major course, in 2022 — an assistant internship, the class of Professor Emilia Moskvitina, academic research in the field of Musical Psychology — the class of Professor Marina Starcheus).

She is the laureate of international competitions, including the Concerto Virtuoso International Competition (First Prize, Moscow, 2018), the 9th Savshinsky International Competition (St Petersburg, 2018), the 19th International Harp Competition in Israel (Akko, 2015) and many others.

She was also awarded the Audience Award ‘Public Harp Winner’ of the Moscow Harp Festival. Since 2016, she has been participating in the project of the St Petersburg House of Music The River of Talents. She is the laureate of the award of the ‘Creating the Future’ Charity Foundation for achievements in the development of Russian art and education.

In 2021, she was invited to be a member of the jury of the international Rocky Mountain Music Competition and Red Maple Music Competition in Canada, in 2022 she was a member of the jury of the 1st International Competition ‘Territory of Creativity’ (Moscow).

In 2010, she became a soloist of the Nikolaev Youth Symphony Orchestra of Russia. Since 2015, she has worked at the Pyotr Fomenko Workshop Theatre, and since 2016, she has been a guest soloist of The Elements project in the Nordic Pulse Ensemble conducted by Kristjan Järvi (Estonia). From 2018 to 2019, she was a guest soloist of the orchestra of the M. Jalil Tatar Opera and Ballet Theatre (Kazan). In 2019, she became the concertmaster of the harp group of the Moscow State Academic Symphony Orchestra conducted by Pavel Kogan. Since 2022, she has been a soloist at the Pushkin Nizhny Novgorod Opera Theatre and the La Voce Strumentale Orchestra conducted by Dmitry Sinkovsky. Since 2023, she has been performing as a member of the Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble. Since 2024 she has been a soloist of the musicAeterna orchestra conducted by Teodor Currentzis.

She conducts active concert activities at the best venues in Russia (Zaryadye, Mariinsky Theatre, Moscow Conservatory, Moscow Philharmonic, GES-2 and many others). She has performed at the international venues in Switzerland, Belgium, France, Germany, Poland, Lithuania, and Estonia.

Since 2020, she has engaged in the development of vibroacoustic harp therapy (VAAT). She has developed a unique methodology together with leading experts in the field of Psychology (Lomonosov Moscow State University) and Physiology (Pavlov Research Institute, Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia).