Evgeniya Spalinger was born in Moscow in a musician’s family. Starting her studies at the Tchaikovsky central music school for highly gifted children with Prof. Yuri Dolzhikov she became a scholarship holder of V.Spivakov and M.Rostropovich charity foundations and toured Europe, Kuwait and the USA. Further studies took Evgeniya to Switzerland, where she enjoyed an
all-round education with such world famous flutists as Felix Renggli, Maria Goldschmidt, Marc Hantai (transverse flute), and Mario Caroli (contemporary music).
She acquired her orchestral experience as a member of:
- Encuentro musica y academia de Santander (ES)
- Baltic Youth Philharmonic (DE)
- Pacific Music Festival Orchestra (JP)
- Nationaal Jeugdorkest (NL)
- Symphony orchestra of Berne (CH)
- Alumni Orchestra Zurich (CH)
Evgeniya’s main interest lies in performing and spreading of contemporary music. She premiered over 50 works for flute solo and ensemble and collaborated with such ensembles as:
- Ensemble Modern Frankfurt (DE)
- Ensemble Contrechamps
- Ensemble Ars Braemia (CH)
- Ensemble Divertimenti (IT)
- Ensemble KYMATIC (RU)
She is two times winner of Swiss national woodwind competition in Riddes:
- 2010, 2nd.prize (1st.prize not awarded)
- 2011 – 1st.prize.
Participant of the most important flute competitions:
- ARD competition (DE, 2010, 2nd round)
- International Kobe flute competition (JP, 2013, second round)
- Nielsen flute competition (DK, 2019)
Evgeniya won several competitions as a chamber musician:
- 1st prize of the international chamber music competition “Svirel” in Slovenia (2014)
- 1st prize winner of the international chamber music
competition for guitar “Bale Valle”, Croatia (2016) - 1st prize of the international chamber music competition “Danubia Talents” in Hungary (2017), both with the Swiss guitarist Marisa Minder as Duo Diversitas.