Elizaveta Pakhomova, Tatiana Barsukova, Marina Dichenko, Olga Solovieva
Biographie Elizaveta Pakhomova, Tatiana Barsukova, Marina Dichenko, Olga Solovieva
Elizaveta Pakhomova
The soprano Elizaveta Pakhomova graduated from the Maimonides Russian State Classical Academy in Moscow, from the class of Nadezhda Krasnaya (a soloist with the Bolshoi Theatre), in 2018. She is a laureate of many international voice competitions, among them the Leopold Mozart Ancient Music Competition in Moscow in 2015 and the ‘Star Rhapsody’ Competition in St Petersburg in 2016. She also received the diploma and the special prize at the Third Natalia Shpiller All-Russian competition of vocalists in Moscow in 2016 and the diploma at the Ninth International Vocal Competition in Astana, in Kazakhstan, in 2017. In 2021 she was the winner of the Boris Tchaikovsky Society International Award. She has performed as a recitalist and as a soloist in Baroque music, singing in cantatas, oratorios and other pieces of sacred music, in many cities in Russia, and has also appeared in Turkey. This album is likewise her debut recording.
Tatiana Barsukova
The soprano Tatiana Barsukova graduated from The P. I. Tchaikovsky Conservatoire in Moscow in 2013, from the vocal class of Clara Kadinskaya, and has participated in master-classes given by Elizabeth Bice, Jan Latham-Koenig and Deborah York. She received a diploma at the international Competizione dell’Opera in Minsk in 2012, and became a laureate of the Nadezhda Obukhova All-Russian Competition of Vocalists in Lipetsk in 2014. At the Elena Obraztsova International Chamber Music Competition in Memory of Conchita Badía, in St Petersburg in 2014, she took the special prize for the best German Romantic Lied performance. She has taken part in concerts in many halls in Moscow, including some in the Moscow Conservatoire, and has appeared as a soloist with such orchestras as the Russian State Symphony Orchestra ‘Novaya Rossiya’, with the conductor Cesario Costa, ‘Russkaya Conservatoria’ Chamber Capella, with the conductor Nikolay Khondzinsky, the Musica Viva Chamber Orchestra, the ‘Soul of Russia’ Folk Instruments Orchestra, the ‘Blagovest’ Ensemble of Sacred Music and the Pfeifer Ensemble of Ancient Music. Among her frequent concert partners are the pianist Natalia Bel’kova and the organist Margarita Es’kina. She makes her debut recording with this album.
