Bespalova is a graduate of the
Urals Mussorgsky State Conservatoire where she studied music composition under
Vladimir Kobekin. In 2003 she won the First Opus young composers competition in
Moscow. She later won the
Mariinsky Theatre's young composers competition for an
opera based on a subject by
Nikolai Gogol with her one-act work
Shponka and His Aunt. The opera premiered at the Mariinsky Theatre on 21 June 2009. Bespalova's works have also been performed at several music festivals including the New Music Days Festival in Yekaterinburg. Several of her works have been performed in concert at the Youth Academies of Russia, including the symphonic work
Secrets of a Wild Wood, the string quartet
A Clockwork Orange, and her choral work with saxophone and piano,
A Hymn to the Sun. ==References==