Her studies began with her great grandmother, outstanding Ukrainian teacher Regina Horowitz, the sister of Vladimir Horowitz, in her native Ukraine at the age of four. She continued at the School for Gifted Children, made her television debut on Ukrainian TV and broadcast several times on Ukrainian radio. Later she continued her education with Sergei Yushkevitch in Ukraine. Since 1994 GéNIA has lived in London where she has won scholarships to the Guildhall and Trinity Colleges of Music as well as receiving numerous awards from musicians trusts such as the Myra Hess, Craxton and Leche Trusts. Recently she has been awarded a Silver Medal from the Worshipful Company of Musicians. She holds six instrumental diplomas, including the highly prized Premier Prix from the Guildhall School and a Masters Degree with Distinction in Modern Music from Trinity College, where she studied with Douglas Finch.

In 1997 GéNIA was awarded a debut recital at the South Bank Centre, London, from the Park Lane Group as an outstanding young artist. She received glowing reviews from the national press, and in the two years since has appeared as a soloist and chamber musician in the UK (London : Wigmore Hall, Purcell Room at the South Bank Centre, Barbican Centre, St. Martin-in-The-Fields, St. John's Smith Square; Oxford, Cambridge, Brighton), Germany (Hamburg, Munich and Schloss Elmaur), France (Paris), USA (Northridge, California) , Cyprus (Nicosia, Larnaka, Paphos and Lemesos) and Ukraine. Also she took part as a soloist at numerous international festivals; amongst them are the Windsor Festival, the Finnish Art Festival "Valo" at the Barbican Centre and Brighton Festival.