Award winning artist Eleni Traganas has led a distinguished professional career as an International concert pianist. Her varied activities are listed in the Millennium Edition of Who's Who in the World® 2000 and Who's Who of American Women. Born and raised in New York City, she commenced her study of music and art at an early age, and her unusual abilities were soon apparent. A published composer at the age of twelve, she entered New York's legendary School of Performing Arts, receiving special prizes in piano and conducting. She was already being heard throughout New York's major radio networks, performing her own compositions in her early teens. Dividing her activities between performing and painting, she subsequently received a scholarship to the prestigious Juilliard School, where she was awarded the Bachelor and Master of Music degrees. Postgraduate studies were undertaken abroad, in Essen, Germany, under the guidance of some of the foremost musicians of the concert world, who in turn inspired her in the great vituoso tradition of their own mentors. She has also performed in the International Master Classes of Mieczyslaw Horszowski in Switzerland. For the last eighteen years, she has resided mainly in Europe, appearing as soloist and with orchestras in many of the major music capitals, garnering the highest praise from the international press. Critics have unanimously applauded her "astonishing command and limitless range of emotion, combined in an overwhelmingly unique and individual style" (Bonn, Germany). With her recent Museum Archive CD and music publications to her credit, she has also regularly held seminars and lecture-demonstrations on Russian music in various conservatories here and abroad.

Through the extensive traveling schedule involved with her concert career, she was fortunate to have made stops at many of the great museums of the world, and has spent much of her time researching and learning from the master collections in Paris, Berlin, Madrid, London, Brussels, Amsterdam, Odessa, and countless other important galleries.