Pyzhianova, Nataliia
No. 60
Voice type: Mezzo-soprano/Alto
Country: Ukraine
Date of birth: 22 September, 1989
She studied from 2008 through 2013 at the Odessa National A. V. Nezhdanova Academy of Music (Ukraine), graduating with a master’s degree in choral conducting. After that, she obtained her PhD diploma at the academy from history of music and musical ethnography in 2016 and a master’s degree in vocal art at the Ignacy Jan Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznań (Poland), in 2019, where that year she took part in the vocal course by by professor Jadwiga Rappé and a masterclass by professor Brigid Bzyukevich-Kulig. as well as a training of M. Bloom and J. Alder in Görlitz (Germany) at the European Choir Academy in the same year. She participated in creative projects such as the Chopin–Górecki Music Festival and Music Course in Warsaw at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in 2019, the 13th Musica Sacromontana Oratory Music Festival at the Svyatogursk Basilica, Goshtin, the Festival of Krzysztof Penderecki on the occasion of his 85th anniversary at the Teatr Wielki – Opera Narodowa, and a performance at Poznań Opera House.
Competition Repertoire
Preliminary
Liszt: La perla
Donizetti: È sgombro il loco... Ah! parea – Smeton’s aria from Anna Bolena
Rossini: Cruda sorte! Amor tiranno! – Isabella’s cavatina from L’italiana in Algeri
Semi-final
Offenbach: Vois sous l’archet frémissant – Nicklausse’s aria from Les Contes d’Hoffmann
Strauss: Sein wir wieder gut – the composer’s aria from Ariadne auf Naxos
Final
Rossini: Amici, in ogni evento… Pensa alla patria – Isabella’s recitative and aria from L’italiana in Algeri
Rossini: Una voce poco fa – Rosina’s cavatina from Il barbiere di Siviglia
Strauss: Ich lade gern mir Gäste ein – Orlofsky’s aria from Die Fledermaus