Born in Dushanbe, Tajikistan,[1] she grew up in Saint Petersburg,[2] where she also started her studies which she then continued in Germany with Kim Kashkashian and Nobuko Imai.
[3] Encounters with Boris Pergamenschikow, György Kurtág, Brigitte Fassbaender and Herbert Blomstedt have also formed her artistic identity.
Since 2010, Masurenko has also been performing classical folklore in various programmes with ensembles such as the Volga Virtuoso Quartet (Russian folk instruments) and KOTTOS from Copenhagen.
[7] Many of her students have built successful careers and are internationally active as soloists, professors, solo violists in major orchestras and as chamber musicians.
Masurenko plays a viola by Paolo Antonio Testore,[8] made in Milan in 1756, and an instrument specially built for her by Jürgen Manthey (Leipzig 2017), a luthier developing new acoustic and tonal designs.