She was a pupil of Georges Falkenberg,[1] Marguerite Long, Alfred Cortot and Yves Nat for the piano, Paul Fauchet[2] and Noël Gallon for harmony, fugue and counterpoint and Henri Büsser for composition.

Logiste at the Prix de Rome in 1938, École des Beaux-Arts Prize in 1943 for her work Fantaisie pour piano et orchestre which she premiered with the Pasdeloup Orchestra under the direction of French conductor and composer Albert Wolff, her international career grew considerably.

At the same time, she founded the Université Musicale Internationale de Paris (UMIP), bringing together a large number of her artistic friends, eminent teachers such as Livia Rev, Miłosz Magin, Julien Falk, Anne-Marie Mangeot, Devy Erlih, Oscar Caceres, Isabelle Nef, Annie Challan.

Invited all over the world to give masterclasses in piano pedagogic centers (Tokyo, Moscow, Sofia, Osaka, Berlin, Warsaw, London, Athens), Richepin was particularly attached to the discovery and support of young pianists during her long teaching career.

Eliane Richepin's deep sonority, imaginative phrasing, sometimes daring rubato owed much to Alfred Cortot and her own conception of Chopin, Ravel and Debussy of which she was a remarkable performer.