Natalia Zagorinskaya
Natalia Zagorinskaya is regarded as one of the outstanding interpreters of 20th century music. She celebrated her first great successes with the song cycles by Edison Denisov, and his „Les Pleurs”, as well as Igor Strawinsky’s „Les Noces”, Alban Berg’s „Lulu-Suite”, Niccolo Castiglioni’s „Terzina”, Luigi Dallapiccola’s „Tre Poemi” and „Commiato”, Elliott Carter’s „A Mirror On Which to Dwell”, Jean Barraque’s „Chant après chant”, Pierre Boulez’s „Improvisation sur Mallarme I/II”, Luigi Nono’s „Intolleranza Suite” and „Sul Ponte di Hiroshima” and György Kurtag’s „Botschaften des verstorbenen Fräulein Troussova”, „Scenes from a Novel”, „Requiem a kedvesért” and „Quatre caprices”; amongst others with the Ensemble Contrechamps, the Ensemble Intercontemporain, the Nieuw Ensemble Amsterdam, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the Schönberg Ensemble.
In 2009 she sang the world premiere of Kurtag’s „Songs after Poems by Anna Akhmatova op. 41” at New York’s Carnegie Hall; with this work, which the composer dedicated to her, she has since toured to Geneva, the Palais Garnier in Paris, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, to Budapest, Cologne and Montreal as well as celebrating her debut at the Musikverein in Vienna. In 2010, she gave her first performance in Austria with Kurtag’s „Botschaften des verstorbenen Fräulein Troussova” in Salzburg; in 2011 she sang both the Akhmatova and the Troussova cycles in a concert celebrating Kurtag’s 85h birthday in Budapest.
Born in Moscow, she started at the age of 7 to study the piano at the Moscow Conservatory. This was followed by vocal training at the Tschaikowsky Conservatory from which she graduated in the class of Vera Kudriavtseva. Since then she has become honorary member of the Moscow Helikon Opera with which she went on tour to the United States, Great Britain, Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, France, Spain and the Lebanon (to the Al Bustan Festival).
Her current stage parts include Emilia Marty in the Russian first performance of Janácek’s „The Makropoulos Affair”, Blanche in the Russian first production of Poulenc’s „The Dialogues of the Carmelites”, the title role in Dvorak’s „Rusalka”, Fata Morgana in Prokofiev’s „The Love for Three Oranges”, Stephana in Giordano’s „Siberia”, Tsarina Alexandra in the Russian first performance of Jay Reise’s opera „Rasputin” as well as, in 2011, Mariana in the Russian first performance of Wagner’s „Das Liebesverbot” at the Moscow Helikon Opera.
Concert engagements took her to the Los Angeles Radio Hall, the Radio France Hall, the Victoria Hall in Geneva, the Muziekgebouw in Amsterdam, the Haarlem Philharmonie, to the Edinburgh Festival, the Aldeburgh Festival, the Helsinki Christmas Festival and, on several occasions, to the Festival La Batie in Geneva. She sang with the Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the Radio-Symphony Orchestra Saarbrücken and with the Gulbenkian Orchestra in Lisbon. Her concert repertoire also includes classical parts such as Bach’s B minor Mass, Schostakowitch’s Symphony No 14, Zemlinsky’s „Lyric Symphony” and Schreker’s “From Eternal Life”.
Future plans include further engagements in Vienna (with Kurtag’s „Troussova“ and Dallapiccola’s „Commiato“) with Klangforum Wien at the Konzerthaus Wien, Amsterdam (with „Akhmatova“ and „Troussova“), Paris („Troussova“), Warsaw („Akhmatova“ and „Quatre caprices“) and in Porto and Saarbrücken (Avni’s „Se questo è un uomo”).
In 2009 she sang the world premiere of Kurtag’s „Songs after Poems by Anna Akhmatova op. 41” at New York’s Carnegie Hall; with this work, which the composer dedicated to her, she has since toured to Geneva, the Palais Garnier in Paris, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, to Budapest, Cologne and Montreal as well as celebrating her debut at the Musikverein in Vienna. In 2010, she gave her first performance in Austria with Kurtag’s „Botschaften des verstorbenen Fräulein Troussova” in Salzburg; in 2011 she sang both the Akhmatova and the Troussova cycles in a concert celebrating Kurtag’s 85h birthday in Budapest.
Born in Moscow, she started at the age of 7 to study the piano at the Moscow Conservatory. This was followed by vocal training at the Tschaikowsky Conservatory from which she graduated in the class of Vera Kudriavtseva. Since then she has become honorary member of the Moscow Helikon Opera with which she went on tour to the United States, Great Britain, Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, France, Spain and the Lebanon (to the Al Bustan Festival).
Her current stage parts include Emilia Marty in the Russian first performance of Janácek’s „The Makropoulos Affair”, Blanche in the Russian first production of Poulenc’s „The Dialogues of the Carmelites”, the title role in Dvorak’s „Rusalka”, Fata Morgana in Prokofiev’s „The Love for Three Oranges”, Stephana in Giordano’s „Siberia”, Tsarina Alexandra in the Russian first performance of Jay Reise’s opera „Rasputin” as well as, in 2011, Mariana in the Russian first performance of Wagner’s „Das Liebesverbot” at the Moscow Helikon Opera.
Concert engagements took her to the Los Angeles Radio Hall, the Radio France Hall, the Victoria Hall in Geneva, the Muziekgebouw in Amsterdam, the Haarlem Philharmonie, to the Edinburgh Festival, the Aldeburgh Festival, the Helsinki Christmas Festival and, on several occasions, to the Festival La Batie in Geneva. She sang with the Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the Radio-Symphony Orchestra Saarbrücken and with the Gulbenkian Orchestra in Lisbon. Her concert repertoire also includes classical parts such as Bach’s B minor Mass, Schostakowitch’s Symphony No 14, Zemlinsky’s „Lyric Symphony” and Schreker’s “From Eternal Life”.
Future plans include further engagements in Vienna (with Kurtag’s „Troussova“ and Dallapiccola’s „Commiato“) with Klangforum Wien at the Konzerthaus Wien, Amsterdam (with „Akhmatova“ and „Troussova“), Paris („Troussova“), Warsaw („Akhmatova“ and „Quatre caprices“) and in Porto and Saarbrücken (Avni’s „Se questo è un uomo”).