Mona Khaba was born in Moscow and graduated with honours from the Moscow Conservatory and its postgraduate assistantship programme. Her teachers were G. B. Axelrod, Honoured Artist of Russia, and Prof. L. M. Zhivov.

After graduating from the conservatory she worked at the Bolshoi Theatre, where she was musical assistant to Vladimir Vasiliev, People’s Artist of the USSR, in his productions of the ballets Cinderella, Don Quixote, Swan Lake, Giselle, Balda and others in Russia and abroad. She played the solo piano part in his productions Nostalgia and Master Class to music by Russian and international composers.

Since 2005 she has been a soloist of the Studio for New Music ensemble of the Moscow Conservatory. She maintains an active concert career. Mona Khaba has taken part in many festivals in Russia and abroad, including the Venice Biennale, Warsaw Autumn, the Beethovenfest in Bonn, the Moscow Forum, Moscow Autumn, Other Space and others. She has appeared as a soloist with the Russian National Orchestra and the State Academic Symphony Orchestra, and in chamber ensembles with leading Russian musicians. Besides works of the classical and Romantic style, the pianist’s repertoire includes 20th-century music and works by young composers from Russia and abroad. She has given the first performances of a number of new works by contemporary composers, including works dedicated to her. Recordings featuring her have been released by Melodiya, Le chant du Monde (France), Meldac (Japan) and other labels, including a series of portrait discs of contemporary composers. She has toured in Spain, Germany, France, Italy, Poland, the Baltic states, Korea, Japan, the USA, Mexico, Brazil, Egypt, Israel and Bermuda.

From 2005 to 2015 she taught piano at the Academic Music College of the Moscow Conservatory; her graduates include concert performers and prizewinners of international competitions. Since 2022 she has taught principal instrument (piano), chamber ensemble and accompaniment at the Faculty of Historical and Contemporary Performing Arts of the Moscow Conservatory. She gives master classes and lectures at educational institutions in Russia and abroad.