Olga Pasichnyk

Olga Pasitschnyk ( Ukrainian Ольга Ігорівна Плиска-Пасічник , Polish Olga Pasiecznik , English Olga Pasichnyk ; born March 3, 1968 in Rivne ) is a Ukrainian classical soprano who lives in Poland .

Her father is the first rector of the newly founded National University " Ostroger Academy " in Ostroh ( Volhynia ).

She began her singing studies at the Pedagogical Institute in Rivne, continued it at the Fryderyk Chopin University for Music in Warsaw and at the National Music Academy of Ukraine Peter Tchaikovsky in Kiev with Yevhenia Miroshnychenko . Since 1992 she has been a soloist at the Warsaw Chamber Opera . In 1994 she won 2nd prize at the International Singing Competition in 's-Hertogenbosch , 2nd prize at the Mirjam Helin International Singing Competition in Helsinki in 1999 and 3rd prize and the special price for oratorio music at the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition in Brussels in 2000 . In 2001 she was awarded the Golden Cross of Merit of the Republic of Poland .

In 2005 and 2010 she was awarded the title “Best Singer of the Season” by the specialist magazine opernwelt for her roles as Almirena ( Rinaldo von Handel) and Roxana ( Król Roger by Karol Szymanowski ). In the Warsaw Chamber Opera she mostly sings title roles in around forty operas by Claudio Monteverdi , Christoph Willibald Gluck , Georg Friedrich Händel , Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Carl Maria von Weber , Georges Bizet , Gioacchino Rossini , Giacomo Puccini , Claude Debussy , Pjotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky , Karol Szymanowski as well as by contemporary composers.

On April 20, 2013, the opera Qudsja Zaher by Paweł Szymański , dedicated to her, was premiered in the Great Warsaw Opera Theater .

She also takes part in chamber concerts and gives recitals with her sister Natalie at the piano.

It is in many opera houses and concert halls, such as Opéra Bastille , Théâtre des Champs-Élysées , Théâtre du Châtelet , Salle Pleyel in Paris, Concertgebouw (Amsterdam) , Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles , Bavarian State Opera in Munich, Theater an der Wien , Grand Théâtre de Genève , Vlaamse Opera in Antwerp .

She has recorded over 50 CDs and DVDs for the companies Dabringhaus and Grimm, Harmonia Mundi, Naxos and Opus 111. Her husband Jurij Pliska teaches at the Natural Science University in Warsaw.

literature

Іван Лисенко: Співаки України (Ukrainian singer). Київ "Знання" 2011, ISBN 978-966-346-499-2 .

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SURNAME	Pasichnyk, Olga
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Плиска-Пасічник, Ольга Ігорівна (Ukrainian); Pasiecznik, Olga (Polish); Pasichnyk, Olga (English)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Ukrainian classical singer (soprano), based in Poland
DATE OF BIRTH	March 3, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rivne

Olga Pasichnyk

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