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The Russian soprano Olga Zinovieva began her professional singing career in the Netherlands. She started performing solo recitals in 2006, while following a Masters course at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. These performances demonstrate a wide diversity of styles, including Italian, French, German and Russian chamber and opera music. During her study Olga was awarded grands from Rotary Club and Prince Bernhard Cultural Foundation of The Netherlands.
Also in that time began Olga's musical collaboration with the pianist Sergey Smirnov. This duo still performs under the name “SO-DUO” and in summer 2007 two young musicians recorded their first CD of Rachmaninov songs (see Discography). After her graduation in 2008 Olga works as an opera, oratorio and a chamber music singer and regularly gives concerts in The Netherlands and abroad. She has performed as a soloist on numerous concert podiums including the Concertgebouw, Muziekgebouw aan t'IJ (Amsterdam); Dr. Anton Philipszaal (Den Haag); the Vredenburg (Utrecht) and Belarus State Philharmonic. Olga regularly appears in “Operadagen” in Rotterdam festival. She is also invited to various music festivals such as “Opera Mosset” (France), “Grachtenfestival”, “Uitmarkt” (Amsterdam); “Festival Classique” (The Hague). Olga’s opera repertoire includes roles of Queen of the Night (Die Zauberföte, Mozart), Susanna (Le Nozze di Figaro, Mozart), Olympia (Les Contes d'Hoffman, Offenbach), Gilda (Rigoletto, Verdi), Marfa (The Tzar's Bride, Rimski-Korsakov). Please go to the page Calendar to get the information about upcoming concerts.
Olga has taken part in master-classes given by Ira Siff, Charlotte Margiono, Jard van Nes, Kelvin Grout, Michael Chance, Henk Smit and Eva Maertson. She was also honored to work with such musicians as Kenneth Montgomery, Ed Spanjaard and Dmitri Ferschtman. Olga started her musical education at the age of eight, attending music school in her native city of Novosibirsk in Russia. When she was fifteen she was accepted into Novosibirsk Music College where she began her major’s study in classical piano. Her singing education began when she was twenty in the vocal studio ‘Inspiration’ where she had her first experience of classical singing. At the age of twenty-two she was accepted at Gnesins’ Russian Academy of Music in Moscow. Her singing teacher was the Russian soprano, Professor Margarita Miglow, a former soloist at the famous Bolshoi Theatre. Olga graduated in May 2004 with an Honors Diploma (“Red Diploma”). While at the Academy she performed in numerous opera productions including Rossini’s ‘Il Barbiere di Siviglia’ singing Rosina and Verdi’s ‘La Traviata’ where she sang Violetta. She also participated in numerous concerts on various stages in Moscow and St. Petersburg.
In the period of 2006-2008 Olga has been doing the Master course at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague. Her teachers were Barbara Pearson and Diane Forlando. |