As a graduate in Piano, Harpsichord and Continuo, Organ, Composition, Pre-polyphony, Functional Voice Method, Elena Modena has a degree in Literature with mention.
In 2003 she founded the Claviere Study Center in Vittorio Veneto (TV), for research on vocal sound, knowledge of ancient music and sacred repertoire, as well as the conservation of instruments of ancient Western tradition and taking care of musical and interdisciplinary projects of national importance – “La via al Santuario”; “Luoghi dello Spirito e dell’Arte”; “Mistica, Musica e Medicina” (cycle of interdisciplinary national conferences, the first of which focused on Hildegard von Bingen).
She also runs seminars: Meetings on Vocal Wellbeing; The Breath of Song. Meditate on the Sacred; The Frequencies of the Heart, Hildegard’s song.
Already a contract professor from 2003 to 2017 at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, she is currently an expert on the subject of Hildegard.
She is a prolific author and her works include: Arachne of L’altrOrfeo; Analytical considerations on vocality (2009) and Antique musical instruments in collection (2010). For the magazine «Vita Nostra» (1,2015; 1,2016) she wrote on the therapeutic dimension of Hildegard von Bingen’s music.
She is among the authors of the Guide to Sacred Music (Zecchini 2017; chapter “Medieval polyphony”) and of «Parola e Tempo. Present and future of sacred art” (16, XVIIIXIX), Pazzini editore 2021, and editor of the Mysticism, Music and Medicine series, 10 volumes of conference proceedings published by the Claviere Study Center (2013-2022).
She has held over six hundred concerts in Italy, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Croatia, Slovenia, Poland and Russia. Vocalist and instrumentalist of the InUnum ensemble in stable collaboration with Ilario Gregoletto, since 2016 she has been a member of the Cappella Marciana, Basilica of San Marco, Venice. She has recorded around ten CDs for Rivoalto, Tactus, Nota, Concerto, Amadeus, Classic Voice, including two produced by the Claviere Study Center dedicated to the repertoire of Hildegard von Bingen.