Elena Mogilevskaya graduated from the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatoire in 1979. In 1979 Elena Mogilevskaya graduated from the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory in the piano class of Professor Pavel Valerianovich Messner.
In 1985 she graduated from the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatoire. In 1985 she graduated from the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory, where she studied composition with Professor Tikhon Khrennikov, People's Artist of the USSR, and piano with Professor Natalia Donatovna Yurygina, Honoured Artist of Russia.

In addition to composing, she has been intensively involved in teaching. In 1989-1998, she was the musical director of the Variety Arts Faculty and a member of the Interfaculty Department of History and Theory of Music and Musical and Stage Arts of the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts (GITIS). She has repeatedly taken part in tours to Poland, Germany, Belgium, France, Italy, Switzerland and Brazil. She has worked with Pyotr Fomenko's Theatre Workshop.

Elena Mogilevskaya is a member of the Union of Professional Composers of the USSR and Russia.

Since 1998 she has been working in Düsseldorf (Germany) as a composer, pianist, organist, teacher and music therapist. Elena Mogilevskaya has been a guest professor in Vitra (Brittany, France) and has also taught at the Anton Rubinstein International Music Academy in Düsseldorf.

Elena is a prizewinner at many international composition and theatre festivals and competitions, including festivals in Paris (France), San Paolo (Brazil), Venice (Italy) and Avignon (France).