The pianist Jelena Bolyubash graduated from the Kyiv State Conservatory in 1995 and then performed for the National Opera of Ukraine in Kyiv. She has been working in Slovenia since 1997, at first as an accompanist at the Slovene National Opera in Maribor and, since 1999, at the Slovene National Opera in Ljubljana. Since 2016 she has been employed as an accompanist at the Ljubljana Conservatory of Music and Ballet. She has helped prepare numerous opera projects. She has given concerts with, among others, the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra, the RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, Consortium Musicum, the Tone Tomšič Academic Choir, and with singers such as Ana Pusar Jerič, Juan Vasle, Marko Kobal, Slavko Savinšek and Marcos Fink, among others. In 2005 she recorded an album of Slovenian lieder with the baritone Marko Kobal.
