Born in Chișinău in 1993, violinist Alisa Grazhevskaya graduated from the S. Rachmaninoff Lyceum, specializing in violin under the tutelage of A. P. Guseva. In 2012, she entered the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, where she completed her studies in Musical Instrumental Performance (Violin). She subsequently earned her Master’s degree from the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music and graduated from the Russian Institute of Theatre Arts (GITIS) with a degree in Performing Arts Producing and Management (2018).

Grazhevskaya has participated in concerts for Moscow FemFest, the Center for Electroacoustic Music at the Moscow State Conservatory, and theatrical productions at both the Moscow Art Theatre (MXAT named after A.P. Chekhov) and the Praktika Theatre. As a member of the Britten-Shostakovich Festival Orchestra, she has performed in ten cities across Russia and the United Kingdom.

Since 2018, she has been a core member of the Reheard ensemble, a collective specializing in contemporary classical music. Within the ensemble, she has participated in advanced masterclasses led by acclaimed composers Tristan Murail and Klaus Lang, conductor Fyodor Lednev, and soloists from the Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble (MCME) and the Studio for New Music ensemble. She is a three-time recipient of the “Notes and Quotes” creative grant program awarded by the Union of Composers of Russia. With Reheard, she has performed at the AVANTI Composition Competition and the “Five Evenings” Festival at the Moscow Conservatory.

Her ongoing collaboration with the reMusik.org International New Music Festival includes two appearances as part of the Reheard ensemble, alongside delivering lectures for students of the Courses in Contemporary Composition and Improvisation directed by Vladimir Gorlinsky and Alexey Sysoev (Improcomp). Furthermore, she has partnered with musicologist Yaroslav Timofeev for his “Preludes to Sunday” project and performed at the Noodome.

Her extensive concert geography spans prominent regional and capital spaces, including tours to Perm, Kazan, and Nizhny Novgorod. Her venue roster includes the Zaryadye Hall, Alexandrinsky Theatre, the Chamber Hall of the Moscow Philharmonic, the Yeltsin Center, DK Rassvet, Dom Radio, and the St. Petersburg Museum of Sound.

The violinist’s performance repertoire encompasses a broad spectrum of works by key figures in domestic and international contemporary music. This includes compositions by Kaija Saariaho, Pascal Dusapin, Michel van der Aa, Jonathan Harvey, Beat Furrer, Rebecca Saunders, Gérard Pesson, Marco Stroppa, Mirela Ivičević, Franco Donatoni, and Jérôme Combier, alongside leading Russian composers Dmitry Kurlyandsky, Anna Romashkova, Olga Rayeva, Roman Tsyphyshev, Nikolay Popov, and Anna Pospelova.