Awards
She has won awards at the following competitions:
The 20th International Glinka Vocalists’ Competition (lst prize and Hope prize, 2003);
Sobinov Music Festival (2nd prize, Saratov, 2004);
The China (Ningbo) International Vocal Competition (2nd prize, 2005);
International Maria Callas Vocalists’ Competition (2nd prize, Athens, 2005);
International Byul-Byul Competition (2nd prize, Baku, 2005);
International Yelena Obraztsova Young Opera Singers Competition (2nd Prize, 2006);
Galina Vishnevskaya Open Competition for Opera Singers (3rd prize and audience sympathies’ prize, 2006);
the International Riccardo Zandonai Young Opera Singers Competition (1st prize, Riva del Garda, Italy, 2006);
13th International Tchaikovsky Competition (4th prize, 2007).
Biography
She completed her studies at the music college attached to the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatoire and, in 2006, she graduated from the Conservatoire (Pyotr Skusnichenko’s class). Than she continued her studies as a post-graduate there.
In
Repertoire
Vava (Shostakovich’s Moskva, Cheryomushki)
Kate Pinkerton (Madama Butterfly)
Babarikha (Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Tale of Tsar Saltan)
Olga (Eugene Onegin)
Polina, Countess (The Queen of Spades)
Lyubasha (Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Tsar’s Bride)
Emilia (Otello)
Ulrika (Un Ballo in maschera)
Ratmir (Glinka’s Ruslan and Ludmila)
Dalila (Samson et Dalila)
Ganna (Rimsky-Korsakov’s May Night)
and also the alto parts in Verdi’s Requiem and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9.
In 2007, she made her Bolshoi Theatre debut as Polina (The Queen of Spades).
Tours
She has participated in many International Union of Music People and Irina Arkhipova Fund projects — including, among others, the Irina Arkhipova presents Opera Festivals and the Russian Chamber Vocal Lyric — from Glinka to Sviridov project.
In 2007, she took part in a performance of Giuseppe Verdi’s Requiem in Zurich. In the same year, she sang Polina (The Queen of Spades) at the Latvian National Opera, appeared at Musica Riva festival with Orchestra Giovanile Luigi Cherubini (Riva del Garda, Italy) and at the Mainau Festival (Germany).
In 2008, she took part in a concert performance of May Night at the Arkhangelskoe Estate Museum singing the part of Ganna (conductor Mikhail Pletnev). In the same year, she sang Dalila (Samson et Dalila) at the Anna Livia Dublin International Opera Festival.
In 2009, she performed at Concertgebouw (Amsterdam) and De Doelen (Rotterdam) in a concert of works by Rakhmaninov (with Sergei Leiferkus) and took part in the International Festival of Musical Academies in honour of bicentenary of Milan Conservatoire.
Discography
She recorded the part of Emilia (Otello; conductor Murad Annamamedov, 2006).
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