Pianist Ellina Blinder received her education at the Hartt School of Music and the New England Conservatory of Music earning Bachelor's and Master Degrees. Ms. Blinder was a top prize winner at both the Connecticut and Massachusetts Young Artists Competition. She has performed solo and chamber music in Europe and the United States. As a collaborative pianist, Ms. Blinder frequently performs in various ensembles from sonata duo to piano quartet. She performed concerts and recorded music with Gold Medal Winner of the International Tchaikovsky Competition, and GRAMMY nominee, cellist Sergey Antonov as well as many other instrumentalists. Together with her violin partner Lilia Muchnick (Boston Duo piano/violin duo), she founded the Chamber Music Foundation of New England concert series in Boston. Together with pianist, Janara Khassenova, she performs frequently in a piano four-hand ensemble. 

Ms.Blinder was a piano faculty member of St. Marks School in Southborough, Massachusetts for 30 years. She now teaches piano privately in Newport, Rhode Island.