Evgenia Grekova

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Evgenia Grekova , Russian Евгения Грекова , transcription: Evgenija Grekowa (born December 19, 1974 in Kurgan ) is a Russian-German opera and concert singer ( soprano ).

Life

Evgenia Grekova received her training from 1993 to 1997 in Moscow with Wera Alexandrowa , then until 2001 in Karlsruhe with Mitsuko Shirai and Hartmut Höll . She took master classes with Edith Mathis , Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Marilyn Horne . During her studies, Grekova had duties at the Stuttgart State Opera .

From 2001 to 2005 Evgenia Grekova was a member of the State Theater in Nuremberg . Guest performances have taken her to the Vienna State Opera , the Semperoper in Dresden State Opera Stuttgart and to Monaco . She performed as a lieder singer at the Richard Strauss Festival in Garmisch-Partenkirchen . In 2002 she sang the roles of Junge Hirten ( Tannhäuser ) and Waldvogel ( Siegfried ) at the Bayreuth Festival .

In 2000 Evgenia Grekova won the Schumann Competition in Zwickau and the “Franz Schubert and Modern Music” competition in Graz . In 2004 she won the Francisco Viñas Competition in Barcelona . In 2005 she received first prize at the International Singing Competition for Mozart and Belcanto in Passau . Grekova reached the finals at the ARD competition and the Vienna Belvedere competition . In 2006 she was awarded the prize of the International Mozarteum Foundation at the 9th International Mozart Competition in Salzburg .

From 2000 to 2012 Evgenia Grekova was a permanent member of the ensemble in Nuremberg, Halle an der Saale and Wiesbaden, where she sang roles such as Pamina, Norina, Konstanze, Sophie, as well as Donna Elvira, Micaёla and Antonia.

The soprano was freelance from 2012 to 2015. Since August 2015 she has been part of the ensemble of the Konzert Theater Bern, where she embodies the roles of the lyrical subject such as Rusalka, Contessa and Marguerite.

In addition, Evgenia Grekova has been teaching "Slavic vocal music" at the University of Music and Theater in Munich since March 2013 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c CV on the Grekovas website , accessed on January 3, 2017.
  2. ↑ Competitions on the Grekovas website , accessed on February 26, 2015
  3. ↑ List of the prizewinners 1975–2006 (PDF; 302 kB) at the International Mozart Competition in Salzburg, accessed on January 19, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Grekova, Evgenia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grekowa, Yevgenia; Грекова, Евгения (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-German opera and concert singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH 19th December 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Kurgan , Soviet Union