Elena Zaniboni, was born in Alessandria, Italy. She first performed in public at the age of 7, graduated at the age of 16 and carries out her advanced studies whit Clelia Gatti Aldrovandi e Nicanor Zabaleta.

A concert harpist of international fame, she has won many prestigious contests and has given concerts all over the world: from the May festival in Florence to the Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna, from the San Carlo Theatre in Naples to the Philarmonica Orchestra in katowice, from the Santa Cecilia Academy in Rome, to the Fenice Theatre in Venice, from the Schönberg Hall in Los Angeles to the Wigmore Hall in London, just to mention a few.

Her carrer includes solo Harp recitals at La Scala in Milan and at the Carnegie Hall in New York.

She performed the Mozart Concerto K299 at the Mozarteum di Salisburgo and also gave many first performances such as Bussotti's “Fragmentations” for solist on two Harps

Her exceptionally large repertorie goes from the origins to the most daring expressions of contemporany harp music.

Guest at several festivals and at Tv programs (recently at Superquark), as many as 22 compositors have written works especially for her. She teaches in the advanced courses of Santa Cecilia Academy in Rome and records for the Fonit Cetra, Edi-Pan, Frequenz and Xenam Music Labels.

Among music encyclopaedias she is in the Grove, in the Utet, in the Agostini, in the Garzantina, in the Who's Who in Italy and in the Rizzoli Larousse encyclopedic dictionary.