After four years of private coaching with Vitaly Mishchenko she continued her professional education at the Gnessin State Musical College for gifted children and later at the Moscow Conservatory.
[7] The first CD Album to be released was recorded on a Mason & Hamlin Concert Grand in Australia featuring Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition and Tchaikovsky/Pletnev's Nutcracker Suite.
[9] As a direct and indirect result of winning the International Franz Liszt Piano Competition, Yakhlakova received prestigious recital and concerto performances in Austria, Australia, France, Germany, Israel, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Russia, Sweden, Spain and Canada.
[10] In December 2018, she took part in the concert To the Memory of Lev Vlassenko,[11] performing Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini with the Russian National Orchestra under Mikhail Pletnev as a conductor.
[citation needed] In September 2019, Yakhlakova made her opening night performing of Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No.2 with the Governor's Symphonic Orchestra of the Irkutsk Regional Philharmonic Society under Ilmars Harijs Lapinsch within the framework of Stars on Baikal Festival.
This time it was Beethoven’' Piano Concerto No.5 performed in collaboration with the MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jan Willem de Vriend.
"[14] In a video made by the International Franz Liszt Piano Competition, renowned French-Canadian pianist Louis Lortie said, "There is something very mysterious about her; she has a very deep soul...