One instrument.
Endless sound.

A life with the organ.

Born in Smolensk in 1966, Ekaterina Leontjewa studied organ and musicology at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory from 1984 to 1992. In 2011, she completed further studies in church music in Halle, Germany, obtaining the A-Diplom.

She has performed across Russia and Europe since 1987. From 1993 to 2005, she lived in St Petersburg, working as a chamber philharmonic soloist and directing the chamber ensemble Vox Humana. Her appearances include organ festivals in Switzerland, France, Belarus and Estonia, as well as concerts at Graz Cathedral and Wittenberg Castle Church.

She helped organise the Gatchina–St Petersburg international youth organ competition in 2000. Since moving to Halle in 2005, she has also founded a German-Russian organ festival. She taught at the University of Halle-Wittenberg from 2014 to 2021 and has taught on the C-level church music course in Halle since 2017.

Since 2020, she has served as a church musician and organist at St. Marien in Roßlau. Her work extends to the historic organs of the surrounding churches, where she has established a regional concert series.

Alongside performing and teaching, she composes works for piano and organ and has recorded CDs.