Yevgenia Semeina studied organ and piano performance at the St. Petersburg Conservatory’s Special Music School with professors D. Zarezkij (organ), and N. Ushakova (piano).
In 2000 she was admitted to the Master of Music program at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, MA, to the organ class of Peter Sykes. She graduated with distinction in 2002.
In 2003 she returned to Russia to continue her education at the Moscow State Conservatory with Professor N. Gureeva. She received an Artist Diploma in Organ Performance in 2005.
Since 1994, Yevgenia has given solo concerts in various cities of the former USSR, Europe (Estonia, Germany, England, France, Norway, Poland, the Czech Republic, Spain and Switzerland), and the United States. She is also active as a pianist in chamber groups and as an accompanist.
In 2002 Yevgenia won the annual Honours Competition of the Longy School of Music. In 2004 she won a special prize at the Concours Internationaux de la Ville de Paris, Paris (France). In 2005 she won a special prize at the Fourth International Mikael Tariverdiev Organ Competition.
She was a faculty member of St. Petersburg State University’s Organ Department from 2006 to2008.
Currently Yevgenia is the organist at the Unitarian Universalist Society of Wellesley Hills.