Professorship / Professional Experience

  • Since 2020: Professorship at AMP Jam Music Lab / Friedrich Gulda School of Music, Vienna
  • Since 2010 to present: Professor of Opera Singing / Solo Singing at Prayner Conservatory, Vienna (more than 20 graduates with diplomas)
  • Since 2007: Vocal Professor at Wiener Musikseminar, Master Classes, Opera Singing
  • Since 2012: Vocal Professor at Opera Master Classes in Italy, Japan, Ukraine
  • Since 2019: Master Classes at Wiener Opernakademie
  • 2019: Head Jury, International Opera Competition Solomiya Krushelnytska, Lviv, Ukraine
  • 2010: Jury member of the Ukrainian TV Opera Competition “Stars in Opera” (Winner: Jamala with Carmen)

Engagements (Excerpt)

Since 1989 to present, lead roles at:

  • Vienna State Opera
  • Metropolitan Opera
  • Covent Garden
  • National Opera of Ukraine
  • Bolshoi Theatre
  • Deutsche Oper Berlin
  • Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg
  • La Scala
  • Bastille Opera
  • New National Opera, Tokyo
  • Hamburg State Opera
  • Salzburg Festival
  • Bregenz Festival, etc.

Numerous concerts and recitals worldwide.

Collaborations with:

  • Luciano Pavarotti
  • Franco Zeffirelli
  • José Carreras
  • Riccardo Muti
  • Plácido Domingo
  • Giuseppe Sabbatini
  • Agnes Baltsa
  • Hans Gratzer
  • August Everding
  • Hans Neuenfels
  • Marcello Viotti
  • Leo Nucci
  • Renato Bruson, among others.

Competitions and Awards

  • 1987: 2nd Prize, Glinka Competition
  • 1990: 1st Prize, Mozart Competition
  • 1991: 1st Prize, Maria Callas Competition
  • 1990: 2nd Prize, Min-on Competition, Tokyo
  • 1991: 4th Prize, Bellini Competition, Italy / Catania

Education / Studies

  • 1984 – 1989: P.I. Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine, Kyiv
    • Degree: “Opera and Concert Singer, Teacher” (Diploma)
  • 1981 – 1984: Glier Music Academy, Ukraine, Kyiv (Prof. I. Palivoda)
  • 2011: Honorary Doctorate, National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine, Institute of Pedagogics
  • 2018: Honorary Doctorate / Honorary Professorship, Grinchenko Institute, Kyiv

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