I began playing piano at five, in Chișinău, Moldova. In recognition of my outstanding achievements at school, I was awarded a five-year tuition scholarship to study at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory.

At 21, I organized my first concert and formed a collective. I went on to earn a Specialist Diploma in Conducting from the Conservatory in 2017. As a student, I led concert activities in one of its largest student organizations, taking responsibility for programming, musicians’ salaries, and speaking to audiences. After graduating, I became assistant conductor of the Freisinger Chamber Orchestra in Boston.

Conducting took me to orchestras and ensembles across Europe and North America, including Berlin Sinfonietta, Orchestre national de Metz, the Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra, Kyiv Symphony Orchestra, the Ukho Ensemble Kyiv, the Szolnok Symphony Orchestra, Bucharest Symphony Orchestra, and the University of Toronto Symphony Orchestra. I later became co-founder and chief conductor of the Edinburgh City Orchestra. Along the way, I spent many months in Germany, Ireland, Ukraine, the US, the UK, and Canada.

My musical life has been shaped by contemporary music and by composers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries whose work was forgotten or forbidden. I lectured at the Avant-garde Center in Moscow on Alexander Mosolov’s opera The Dam and the early Soviet avant-garde.

Today, I’m bringing that experience of organizing people around complex work into a new field. I am the founder of ShiftLoom, where I’m building a risk intervention system for startups.