Alena Baeva was born into a musical family in Osh (now Kyrgyzstan) in 1985. She began playing the violin at the age of five under Olga Danilova in Alma-Ata. In 1995 she started studying violin with Eduard Grach at the Central Music School of the Tchaikovsky State Conservatory in Moscow after which she attended the conservatory from 2002 to 2007. In addition to her formal education, she took lessons with Mstislav Rostropovich, Boris Garlitsky and Seiji Ozawa as well as attending masterclasses with Shlomo Mintz, Ida Haendel and Maxim Vengerov. She attracted international attention after winning the Paganini Competition in Moscow and the International Violin Competition in Sendai.

The violinist has been living in Luxembourg since 2010 and works with leading orchestras and conductors all over the world. She is considered one of the most exciting, versatile and compelling artists on the world stage – a »magnetic presence« (New York Classical Review) and »a constantly fascinating sound technician« (Badische Zeitung). Endowed with a passionate curiosity for music, Baeva has already mastered an impressive repertoire that is constantly expanding – including more than fifty violin concertos. In addition to the standard classical repertoire, she also champions lesser-known works and composers.

As a soloist, she performs all over the world with leading orchestras such as the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the NHK Symphony Orchestra, the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne. This season, she can be heard with, among others, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya, the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège. She works with conductors such as Paavo Järvi, Vladimir Jurowski, Cornelius Meister, Riccardo Minasi, Tomáš Netopil, Kazushi Ono, Petr Popelka, Dinis Sousa and Kazuki Yamada.  She also has a close, long-standing relationship with the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, with whom she regularly performs and records on period instruments.

Chamber music holds a special place in Alena Baeva’s musical career. She has performed with acclaimed artists such as Yuri Bashmet, Daishin Kashimoto, Mischa Maisky, Jean-Guihen Queyras, the Belcea Quartet and with her partner, the celebrated Ukrainian pianist Vadym Kholodenko, with whom she made her Musikfest debut in 2023. In 2025, she wowed the Musikfest audience at the Glocke alongside the Aurora Orchestra.

Alena Baeva is an Alpha Classics exclusive artist. »Fantasy«, the first album in her multi-part collaboration with the label, with Vadym Kholodenko, was released in February 2024. She is currently working on recording all of Ludwig van Beethoven’s violin sonatas.

Alena Baeva plays the »ex-William Kroll« Guarneri del Gesù from 1738, generously provided to her by an anonymous patron with the support of J&A Beares.