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Zhaina was born in Almaty, Kazakhstan. She entered the special music school K. Bajseitova in Almaty, Kazakhstan at the age of 11 and graduated in 1991. In 1991 she started her studies in the conservatory in Kurmangazy Kazakh in Almaty, Kazakhstan and graduated as a teacher, concert musician, cello, soloist, and artist for chamber orchestras, music, opera, and symphonic orchestras. She studied with Professor Djambul Baspaev. Due to her exceptional achievements, she was invited to the P. Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow under the Soviet regime and received her postgraduate degree in 1999. After these studies she studied at the Moscow State Conservatory for two years and finished her musical education in 2001. She took lessons with Professor Tatiania Priymenko and Professor Dmitry Miller concertmaster of cellos at the Bolshoi Theatre. She had training with Professor Yakunin, and received the highest qualification for teaching cello in Almaty, Kazakhstan in 2012, and did a masterclass with Igolinsky from Moscow and Valentin Berlinski and Oleg Sendetsky from the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg in 2013.

She has won several competitions. She was a cello teacher at the conservatory in Almaty, Kazakhstan, assistant teacher in the ‘Conservatory Chamber Ensemble’ in Almaty, teacher at the special music school for gifted children in Almaty, and today she is a music teacher for cello and piano with an experience of more than 15 years. Her students received national and international prizes in various competitions.

She came to Belgium in 2013 and started a training institute under the name ‘Mezzo’ for piano and cello. Today it is called Mezzos vzw school for Art and Music in its final form with departments in Gentbrugge and Destelbergen.

Today she performs as an artist with ‘Zhaina K invites …. in the KYDY Rooms’ and the duo PianoCelloDuo, AlphaStringDuo and the trio Les Misérables and organizes cultural events and business events for third parties. Occasionally she also plays in several orchestras.