NATALIA VOLCHENKO (Tbilisi State Conservatoire, Georgia)
\n22 and 25 March @11.00-16.00 in C-405
\n23 March @11.00-14.00 great hall<\/p>\n
Natalia Volchenko graduated from the Tbilisi V. Sarajishvili State Conservatoire undergraduate and postgraduate studies under Professor Svetlana Egorova. She got master classes from Galina Vishnevskaya, Elena Obraztsova, Makvala Kasrashvili, Zurab Sotkilava, Gegam Grigoryan, Teimuraz Gugushvili. In 1993, being a third year student, she debuted as Amneris (Giuseppe Verdi\u2019s Aida<\/em>) at the Tbilisi Z. Paliashvili State Opera and Ballet Theatre. This role as well as the singer\u2019s further operatic repertoire had been prepared under Maestro Djansugh Kakhidze. It is noteworthy that the famous conductor encouraged Natalia Volchenko to prepare and perform some soprano parts as well.<\/p>\n Natalia Volchenko\u2019s wide repertoire, which she performed at the Tbilisi Opera Theatre as on the opera stages of Russia and the Post-Soviet countries, includes mezzo soprano\u2019s parts in Verdi\u2019s operas: Princess Eboli (Don Carlos), Azucena (Il Trovatore), Madalena (Rigoletto), <\/em>Ulrica (Un ballo in maschera); <\/em>Richard Wagner\u2019s operas: Rienzi<\/em> (Adriano), Walkyrie<\/em> (Fricka), Der fliegende Holl\u00e4nder<\/em> (Senta). Natalia Volchenko also performs: Santuzza (Pietro Mascagni\u2019s Cavalleria Rusticana<\/em>), Carmen (Georges Bizet\u2019s Carmen<\/em>), Dalila (Camille Saint-Saens\u2019s Samson et Dalila<\/em>); Princess de Bouillon (Francesco Cilea\u2019s Adriana Lecouvreur); Natela (Zakaria Paliashvili\u2019s Abesalom and Eteri<\/em>), Nano (Paliashvili\u2019s Daisi<\/em>), Barbale (Victor Dolidze\u2019s Keto and Kote<\/em>), Medea (Bidzina Kvernadze\u2019s Kolkhetian Maiden<\/em>); Rosina (Gioachino Rossini\u2019s Il barbiere di Siviglia<\/em>), Charlotte (Jules Massenet\u2019s Werther<\/em> ); Polina, Liza, Countess (Pyotr Tchaikovsky\u2019s The Queen of Spades<\/em>) and Olga (Eugene Onegin<\/em>), Marina Mnishek (Modest Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov<\/em>) and Marfa (Khovanshchina<\/em>); Lyubasha (Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov\u2019s The Tsar’s Bride<\/em>).<\/p>\n The concert repertoire of Natalia Volchenko includes Requiems <\/em>by Mozart, Verdi, Bruckner; Mahler\u2019s Second Symphony; a cycle for mezzo-soprano and orchestra by Mikheil Odzeli. At the solo recitals she has performed vocal music of the European, Georgian, Russian composers. Among them should be mentioned chamber-vocal music by Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov; Vocal Cycles by Schumann, Wagner, Mahler, de Falla, Mussorgsky, Shostakovich; arias from Bach\u2019s cantatas and oratorios. Natalia Volchenko is the Associate Professor of the Tbilisi State Conservatoire and the vocal teacher at the E. Mikeladze Central Music School.<\/p>\n"}]},"yoast_head":"\n
\nNatalia Volchenko is a laureate of Vano Sarajishvili Prize. She is the finalist and prize-winner of Toulouse International Singers Competition (France, 1994) and International Competition Le Voci Verdiane<\/em> (Busseto, Italy, 1996). In 1995 she received the First Prize and laureateship at the First Republic Competition of Young Musicians. In 2011 she defended the doctoral thesis under Professor Eldar Getsadze and became a Doctor of Musicology. She is an author of several scientific articles, which have been published in the international scientific journals.<\/p>\n