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Elena Orduyan is director of the music department and co-founder of Digital Monkey School in Belmont, California since 2006. Elena Orduyan was classically trained in Moscow. While she constantly continues to expand her own study, she has developed a method for students, which she has been testing and modifying for many years. It is a compilation of various piano methods and includes her own personal insights. She taught in New York, where she prepared her students to attend conservatories such as the Manhattan School of Music and Julliard.

She has been the coordinator of the San Mateo County Fair Non-Classical Piano Competition since 2011. She is also a sound design lead for Digital Monkey School computer games. She found many followers among piano musicians who adopted her method of teaching at Digital Monkey School.

She gets her most inspiration from teaching, also from yoga, dancing and nature.