Ella Sevskaya was born in the Ukraine in 1961. She studied from an early age with Elena Kamenkovich and made her debut with Shostakovich's First Piano Concerto at the age of thirteen. Subsequently she was the pupil of Regina Horowitz in Kharkov (Ukraine) before moving to St. Petersburg (Leningrad) where she completed her studies at the State Conservatory under Nathan Perelman.

She then turned her attention to early music, playing continuo with various ensembles in S.Petersburg (Musica Practica, Ars Consoni, New Holland). She continued to play the piano and was a member of the St. Petersburg Trio (1990-93). In 1994 she moved to Munich to further her studies in the harpsichord, fortepiano and early organ, while still performing as both soloist and accompanist on the piano. From Perelman she inherited the light touch of the older Russian school.

She is now specializing in fortepiano and has recently performed in USA (Greensborough, Boston, New York Metropolitan Museum), England (London), Germany (Conference on early piano in Michaelstein, Berlin, Munich, Homburg, Herne), France (Amiens) and Switzerland (Chur) as well as Italy (Florence Accademia Cristofori, Arezzo, Trento, Bressanone). She recorded for BBC3 Early Music Show and for Bavarian Radio work of Domenico Scarlatti, Lodovico Giustini, Giovanni Platti, Baldassare Galuppi on Cristofori piano.

She teaches harpsichord and early piano at the annual summer school ‘G.B.Boni da Cortona’ at Cortona and Chiusi della Verna(Tuscany).

A CD, 'Beethoven In Context',  recorded on an historic fortepiano in Florence with works by Dussek, Beethoven and Ries has appeared on the Quilisma label. A CD on Cristofori oval spinet with works of Alessandro Scarlatti is recently recorded for the "Tactus".