Elena Dubinets received her M.A. and Ph.D. (1996) from the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Russia. She has lived in the USA since 1996, lecturing in music history and theory in New York, Boston, Ithaca (Cornell University), Seattle, as well as at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory and Pro Arte Institute in Russia and University of San Jose, Costa Rica. She is currently Music Research Coordinator for the Seattle Symphony Orchestra and Artistic Adviser for the Seattle Chamber Players.

As an authority on contemporary Russian and American music, Dubinets is actively involved in promoting artistic exchanges between the European and American new music communities.In 2001 and 2003 she produced festivals of contemporary American music in Moscow, Russia, with participation of many American artists, including Kyle Gann, Steven Drury, Patricia Spencer, the opera studio of Bard College, the Paul Dresher Ensemble, and the Seattle Chamber Players. In the USA, Dr. Dubinets co-produced the Russian Contemporary Music Festivalat the University of Iowa (2002), Wired Strings festival of Russian and American Electro-acoustic Music (San Francisco, 2003), and two Icebreaker festivals and symposiums in Seattle with the Seattle Chamber Players: New Voices from Russia (2002) and Baltic Voices (2004). She also lectured and performed at the Seattle Symphony Shostakovich Uncovered Festival (2003).

Dr. Dubinets' primary research interest is in the theory, composition, and notation of twentieth-century music. She has published more than fifty articles on the history and theory of music in leading Russian, Israeli, French and American journals and newspapers, as well as the book, Signs of Sounds: Contemporary Music Notation (Kiev, 1999). She has given papers at various international conferences, including the 17th Congress of the International Musicological Society (Leuven, Belgium, 2002); the Society for American music’s twenty-eighth national conference (Lexington, Kentucky, 2002); Seventh International Congress on Musical Signification (Imatra, Finland, 2001); International Conference Russian Avant-Garde: Past, Present and Future (London, UK, 2000) and many others. Dr. Dubinets has received supporting grants from Rockefeller Foundation, Arts International, The Soros Cultural Initiative, Nuffic Foundation (Netherlands) and others.In 2002 she spent three months as Stipendiat at the Paul Sacher Stiftung in Basel, Switzerland, studying the compositional sketches of Morton Feldman and Conlon Nancarrow.