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Laureate of All-Russian and international competitions, scholarship holder of the program of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation "Young Talents of Russia" Varvara Komarovskaya (soprano) Date and place of birth: 03/12/1991 Vladivostok Contact information: 8 (925) 1989 144 Coloraturacomar@yandex.ru Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3OyXskq5hhEE0svdXFIG6w Education: 1998–2008 – Children's School of Arts No. 1 named after S. Prokofiev, piano and vocals (teacher – Honored Artist of the Russian Federation L.A. Shalina) 2008–2012 – Music College named after Gnessin (class of teacher O. I. Dementyeva) (Moscow) 2012 – 2013 – Far Eastern State Academy of Arts 2013 – 2017 – transferred to the 2nd year of the State Academy of Choral Art named after V. S. Popov (class of Professor V. L. Chaplin). Graduated in 2017 with honors (Moscow). In 2019, she completed her master's degree at the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music (class of senior teacher A. M. Benina), received an honors diploma (Moscow). In 2020–2023, she completed her postgraduate studies at the Far Eastern State Institute of Arts (supervisor – professor, doctor of art history Yu. L. Fidenko) Place of work: Far Eastern State Institute of Arts, Department of Vocal Arts and Conducting (Vocal Arts Section) (teacher) Primorsky Regional Philharmonic (soloist-vocalist) Laureate of competitions: 2007 – International Competition "Silver Voice" – 2nd prize (Moscow) 2010 – All-Russian Competition named after A. Vyaltseva – 2nd prize (Bryansk) 2011 – International Competition “Bella voce” (Moscow) 2nd prize 2011 – All-Russian Competition “Young Talents” (Moscow) 2015 – International Competition “Art and Education of the 21st Century” – 1st prize (Lonigo, Italy) 2016 – International Vocalists Competition – 1st prize (Vicenza, Italy) 2017 – International Competition named after N. Shpiller – 3rd prize (Moscow) 2018 – International Competition named after M. I. Landa – 3rd prize (Moscow) 2020 – International competition “Camerton competition” – 1st prize 2020 – II All-Russian Internet competition “Musical talents of Russia” – 1st prize 2021 – International competition of vocal art “Camerton competition” – 1st prize 2021 – International competition-festival of acting and performing arts “Creative takeoff” – 1st prize 2023 – “The Voice of Russia” (1st prize) Parts: N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov – Marfa (“The Tsar’s Bride”) N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov – The Swan Princess (“The Tale of Tsar Saltan”) W. A. ​​Mozart – Queen of the Night (“The Magic Flute”) W. A. ​​Mozart – Madame Hertz (“The Director of the Theater” G. Donizetti – Serafina ("The Bell") G. Donizetti - Lucia ("Lucia di Lammermoor") G. Verdi - Violetta ("La Traviata") Foreign languages: English, Italian, Hebrew. French, German, Spanish, Latin, Japanese - reading. Achievements: In 2006, the first solo concert in two parts took place (at the time of the concert, the singer was 15 years old), in the Nakhodka Music College. The program included works by Russian and foreign composers. In 2007, she became the laureate of the 1st prize of the regional vocalists competition and the laureate of the 2nd prize of the All-Russian competition "Silver Voice". For great creative achievements, she was awarded a diploma of the Russian Culture Foundation. Her name was entered into the Russian encyclopedia "Gifted Children - the Future of Russia". She gave a solo concert (2 parts) at the Nakhodka College of Music, performing the solo program "Fr om Bach to Webber". In 2010, she became a laureate of the All-Russian competition named after A. Vyaltseva (2nd prize). She performed a new solo program in 2 parts at the Primorsky Regional Philharmonic (Vladivostok). In 2011, she became a laureate of the international competition "Bella voce" (4th prize). She performed Gliere's concerto for voice and orchestra with the Pacific Symphony (Vladivostok, conductor - Honored Artist of the Russian Federation M. Arkadyev) and with a new solo program at the Primorsky Regional Philharmonic. In 2012 - winner of the All-Russian music competition "Young Talents of Russia". She was awarded the title of "Best Student of the Gnessin College". Performed Gliere's concerto for voice and orchestra in the Svetlanov Hall of the International House of Music (Moscow, conductor - Honored Artist of the Russian Federation V. Lutsenko). Took part in master classes of Professor of the Royal College of Music (Great Britain) Sally Burgess. In the same year, a licensed CD of "Mirrors of the Depths of the Bottomless" was recorded with vocal music by a Primorsky composer - Honored Artist of the Russian Federation R. E. Ilyukhina. 2013 - with the Pacific Symphony Orchestra, a program was performed consisting of opera arias by Mozart, J. Offenbach, N. Rimsky-Korsakov, L. Bernstein, L. Delibes (Vladivostok, conductor - Tatyana Tereshchenko). Performed a new solo program in 2 parts at the Primorsky Regional Philharmonic. During her studies at the Gnessin College, she repeatedly performed solo programs in two departments in cities in the Russian Far East (Nakhodka, Khabarovsk, Amursk). Fr om 2012 to 2017, she collaborated with the State Brass Orchestra of the Russian Federation as a guest soloist. She toured with the orchestra in Poland (2013, conductors - Honored Artists of the Russian Federation Viktor Lutsenko and Andrey Kolotushkin), Spain (2014, conductors - Honored Artists of the Russian Federation Viktor Lutsenko and Andrey Kolotushkin), performed in numerous concerts in Moscow and the Moscow Region, took part in several festivals (including one dedicated to the 70th anniversary of Victory in 2015). In 2013, she took part in the opera project of Alessandro Svaba (Italy, Trieste), wh ere she performed the part of Gilda in Verdi's opera Rigoletto in Italian. In 2013, she performed in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory as a soloist with the Moscow State University Choir. In 2014, she performed with the State Brass Orchestra in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, performing the solo part in Salnikov's Symphony on War and Peace. In 2015, she performed two new solo programs (one of them with the Pacific Symphony Orchestra, conductor - Honored Artist of the Russian Federation Anatoly Smirnov). In the same year, she performed the part of the Queen of the Night in a production of the opera studio of the Popov Academy of Choral Art. Laureate of the international vocal competition in Lonigo (Italy, 1st prize). This summer, the singer toured the Republic of Korea (South Korea), wh ere she presented a diverse program, fr om Korean folk songs to masterpieces of world opera and musicals (conductor - Tatyana Tereshchenko). 2016 - laureate of the international vocal competition in Vicenza (Italy, 1st prize). In 2016, a solo concert was held in 2 parts in the hall of the Dante Algieri library (Moscow). Since 2016, she has been taking part in the international opera project "Opera night". She performed two solo programs at the Reka Arts Festival in Dubna (Moscow Region). Since 2017, she has been studying in the master's program of the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music in the class of senior teacher Ariza Mursalovna Benina. In 2017, she participated in master classes of the famous Italian singer Gabriella Ravazzi, wh ere she prepared the part of Violetta (G. Verdi, "La Traviata"). She performed a concert in 2 parts in Dubna. In December 2017, she took part in two concerts "Dunaevsky and Dunaevsky" (Kazan, Philharmonic Concert Hall), where she performed songs by composer I. Dunaevsky and the cantata "Rejoice" by M. Dunaevsky with the National Orchestra of the Republic of Tatarstan under the direction of People's Artist of the Russian Federation A. Sladkovsky, with the participation of People's Artist of the Russian Federation M. Dunaevsky. In 2018, she became a laureate of 3 prizes at the International Vocalists Competition named after M. I. Landa and the All-Russian Competition named after N. Shpiller. In January 2018, concerts were held in the central halls of Moscow - in the International House of Music and the Diplomatic Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace. Fr om 2016 to the present, she has been taking part in the Winterreise festival under the direction of Natalia Korshunova. In April 2018, she performed the part of Serafina in Donizetti's opera The Bell. In April - May 2018, she performed two new solo programs in Moscow, Tula, Chernogolovka, Suzdal, Dubna. In June, she performed the part of Violetta in Verdi's La Traviata, as part of the Empire of Opera opera festival. In September, she performed a solo concert in two parts, in the concert hall of the Harbin Conservatory (PRC). Currently, Varvara Komarovskaya's creative portfolio includes more than twenty solo concert programs, including famous and rare soprano arias of the Baroque era, masterpieces of world opera composers, romances and songs of Russian, Italian, German, Czech and French composers and 6 opera parts. Among the solo programs, there are also quite unusual ones - "From Bach to Webber", "Masterpieces of Coloratura", "Masterpieces of Vocal Music of Three Eras", "Voice, Organ, Trumpet", "Barocco & Piazzola", "Salut a la France". On December 10, 2018, she performed the part of Violetta in G. Verdi's opera "La Traviata" in the Great Hall of the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music. In 2019, Varvara Komarovskaya gave a solo concert in the Great Hall of Xiamen University, PRC, wh ere she was also given a master class. The concert program included masterpieces of world opera art, as well as arias fr om musicals and Russian folk songs. On March 4, 2019, the part of the Queen of the Night in W. A. ​​Mozart's opera "The Magic Flute" was performed in the Great Hall of the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music. On June 27, 2019, she completed her master's degree at the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music, receiving a diploma with honors. During the certification, she wrote and defended her master's dissertation "The Influence of the Methodology of Manuel Garcia - Son on the Professors of the Gnessin School - L. B. Dmitriev and V. L. Chaplin", dedicated to vocal pedagogy. Since December 2019, she has been working as a teacher at the Department of Vocal Arts and Conducting at the Far Eastern State Institute of Arts. In January-February 2020, she toured as a soloist with the orchestra of the Khabarovsk Musical Theater in South Korea. The concerts were held in the largest concert halls, including Lotte Concert Hall (Seoul). During the tour, the music of W. A. ​​Mozart (Aria of the Queen of the Night) and S. Rachmaninoff (romances) was performed. Conductors - Ruslan Antipinsky (Khabarovsk) and No Tae Chol (South Korea). Throughout the pandemic, she actively collaborated with the E. F. Gnessina Memorial Apartment Museum at the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music in the preparation of online concert projects "Creative Meetings with Composers". In 2021, she performed concert programs in Vladivostok and beyond. Among them are concerts on the stage of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Vladivostok (a program of music by Polish composers, Advent and Easter concerts); a concert on the stage of the Great Hall of the Primorsky Regional Philharmonic (as part of the international festival "Far Eastern Spring") together with the soloist of the State Academic Mariinsky Theater (Primorsky Stage) Dmitry Nelasov; a solo concert on the stage of the Great Hall of the Aircraft Manufacturers' Culture Center (Komsomolsk-on-Amur), which was a great success and allowed for the establishment of close creative contacts with educational institutions and concert halls. She became a laureate of the international competition "Creative Takeoff". Participated in scientific and practical conferences "Musicology: History and Modernity through the Eyes of Young Scientists" (Novosibirsk), "Culture of the Russian Far East and Asia-Pacific Countries: East - West" (Vladivostok). In 2022, she actively performed with orchestras in Vladivostok: she performed R. Glière's Concerto for coloratura soprano with the Pacific Symphony Orchestra (conductor - Honored Artist of the Russian Federation Anatoly Smirnov) and the Pacific Fleet Headquarters Orchestra (conductor - Ilya Sergeev), prepared a program of vocal music from the Baroque era with the early music ensemble "Regina Angelorum", performed G. Pergolesi's oratorio "Stabat Mater" as part of Easter concerts in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Vladivostok. She became a member of the Russian national section of the International Society for Music Education at UNESCO (ROSISME). In June 2022, Varvara Komarovskaya became a permanent participant in the educational project initiated by Doctor of Art History, Professor Yulia Leonidovna Fidenko "Music and Painting: Two Facets of the Beautiful", held in the Main Enfilades of the Primorskaya Art Gallery. From January to March 2023, Varvara Komarovskaya's concerts were held at various concert venues in Vladivostok: a concert of Russian romances in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Vladivostok; concerts "Winter Christmastide" and "Baroque - a wonderful world" as part of the educational project "Music and Painting: Two Facets of the Beautiful". Also in February and March, concerts of vocalists were organized in the Presidium of the House of Scientists of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Music. The new 2023-2024 season was marked by a tour to Komsomolsk-on-Amur, wh ere the singer presented two diverse concert programs and held master classes. She also actively collaborates with musicians from Vladivostok: soloist of the Primorsky Regional Philharmonic Anna Zvereva (violin), laureate of International Competitions Grigory Baranov (guitar) (Latin American music program "Cloudless Sky Over All Spain" on the stage of the Pushkin Theater of FEFU, as well as Argentine tango programs at various venues in the city). Since January 2024, Varvara Komarovskaya has been working as a soloist of the Primorsky Regional Philharmonic. In January, February and March 2024, in collaboration with international competition laureates Grigory Baranov (guitar) and Chang Tihe (violin), the programs "Escape to the South", "Tango del Mar" were performed, including on the stage of the Khabarovsk Regional Philharmonic. The gratitude received by the singer from various concert organizations in which Varvara Komarovskaya performed, as well as reviews in the press, give the highest assessment of her performances.