Performers

Eudokia Ionina is well known among the Moscow concert-going public; she was born in 1976 in the same Siberian Academy town where Alexander Feht grew up. In 1995 she graduated from the Novosibirsk Conservatory (under professor Gvozdev), and in 2000 from the Moscow Conservatory (under professor Melnikov).

She is a winner of several Zakhar Bron International Competitions for Young Violinists, and has given concerts in the Large and Small Halls of the Moscow Conservatory, in the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow, and in several major art museums. She appeared as a soloist with the Musica Viva chamber orchestra, and in ensembles with Anastasia Sidelnikova, Alexander Rudin, Sergey Poltavsky, Asiya Korepanova, Sergey Chechyotko, Lubov Gromoglasova, and Vladimir Tropp. She participated in the International Festival «La Folle Journée» in Nantes and is a laureate of the International Festival of Arts «Arkhangelskoye: Mysteria».

Asiya Korepanova is a concert pianist and a soloist of the Moscow State Philharmonic Society. Born in Izhevsk, Udmurtia, in a family of professional musicians, she started playing piano at the age of four. From 2001 to 2006 she studied piano in the class of Professor Elisso Virssaladze in the Moscow State Chopin College and the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory. Graduated in 2009, she had been selected by the State Commission as the best pianist-graduate of the Conservatory.

She became the prizewinner of numerous international piano competitions, including the N. Rubinstein Piano Competition (Paris 1997) and Classical Heritage Competition (1st prize in both piano and composition, Moscow 1998). She won the Russian Federation President’s Award for Exceptional Achievement in the Arts at the age of 12 (1997), later the National Award from the Republic of Udmurtia, the Berliner Salon Award (2003) and the “Triumph” prize (youth category, 2005). In 2009 she became an Honored Artist of her native Udmurtia Republic.

Her repertoire includes more than 45 concertos with orchestra, including the complete concertos of Prokofiev, Beethoven, Brahms, Liszt, Chopin and Ravel. She has made numerous recordings on television and radio. She also appeared in concerts with various symphony orchestras, in addition to playing solo recitals in major concert halls in Russian Federation, Germany, Austria, Greece, Spain, France, Luxembourg, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Israel, Kuwait, Syria, India, Great Britain and Australia.

Graduated from Russian Gnessins’ College in 1986. Since 1991 Tatiana studied with professor Gertruda Troyanova. In 1986–1991 she performed with the Moscow Music Theatre “The Third Dimension”. In 1992–1998 she was a soloist with the Tchaikovsky Opera and Ballet House in Perm’. In 1996 she performed a Russian premiere of Ghiya Kanchelli’s “Lament” for soprano and orchestra, and was awarded a National Theatre Award “The Golden Mask” for the best female role.

Since 1998 she has been a soloist of Helikon Opera. Tours include Germany (Musikfestspiele Festival in Potsdam), France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Poland, and Spain.

Solo in oratorios and chamber music: Kanchelli “Lament”; Shostakovich “7 Songs to the verses of A. Block”; various chamber pieces by Mozart, Schubert, Rachmaninoff, Rimsky-Korsakov, Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, Poulenc, Forrest, Gershwin, Bernstein.

• Lulu in Berg’s Lulu
• Michaela in Bizet’s Carmen
• Norina in Donizetti’s Don Pasquale
• Despina in Mozart’s Così fan tutte
• Zerlina in Mozart’s Don Giovanni
• Königin der Nacht in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte
• Olympia in Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann
• Musetta in Puccini’s La Bohème
• Rosina in Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia
• Gilda in Verdi’s Rigoletto
• Violetta in Verdi’s La Traviata
• Queen of Shemakhan in Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Golden Cockerel
• Rachelina in Paisiello’s The beautiful Miller’s Wife
• Blanche de la Force in Poulenc’s Les Dialogues des Carmelites
• Anaida in Rossini’s Mose in Egitto
• Adele in Strauss’s Die Fledermaus
• Nannetta in Verdi’s Falstaff
• Snowmaiden in Rimsky-Korsakov’s Snegurochka
• Martha in Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Tsar’s Bride
• Vitellia in Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito

The distinguished Russian tenor Nikolay Dorozhkin was born in Moscow. He began his professional career there very early, singing in the children's choir of the Bolshoi Theater. He was graduated from T. Loshmakova's solo singing class of the Gnesin Music College in 1987, and continued his education in Y. Grigoryev's class at the Moscow State Conservatory. He studied in Italy with Maestro Claude Thiolas from 1992 to 1994, and later with Professor Ingeborg Wamser in Vienna, Maestro Arrigo Pola in Italy, and Professor Peter Zieten in Germany.

After success in the First International Opera Singers Competition in Manfredonia and in the Tito Schipa International Competition in Lecce, he won first prize at the Second International Opera Singers Competition in Budapest. He has sung as a soloist in the opera theaters of Italy (Venice, Verona, Treviso), Hungary (Budapest), Finland, and Russia. Among his many accomplishments are the roles of Aeolus (in F. Cavalli's La Didone), Orpheus (in J. Haydn's Orpheus and Eurydice), Nemorino (in G. Donizetti's L'Elisir d'Amore), and Radames (Verdi's Aida). His performances in Haydn's Orpheus and Eurydice and in Nicolo Isouard's Cendrillon, under the direction of R. Bonynge, have been recorded on CD in Finland and in Russia. Currently he sings as a soloist at the Helicon Opera Theater in Moscow.

Nikolay Dorozhkin's repertoire includes opera arias, romances, and songs of Russian and foreign composers. He performs all works in the language of the original. He has appeared in numerous solo concerts from 1990 to 2000 in Russia, Italy (Venice, Bologna, Brescia, Padua, Lecce, Vicenza, Trento), in Germany (Cologne and other cities), in Japan (Casals Hall, Tokyo), in Finland, in Belgium, and in France. His unforced, warm, and bright bel canto, highly intuitive understanding of the national and cultural character of the music, and solid international experience make Nikolay Dorozhkin an ideal interpreter of Alexander Feht's neoromantic vocal compositions.

Sergey Chechyotko received his professional education in music schools of his native Mariy El Republic, and in piano classes of Kazan and Moscow State Conservatories. He won first prize in the “Young Talents of the Mariy El Republic” competition. He has worked in the Helikon Opera Theater in Moscow since 1998. He has an enduring interest in recording new music, and performs it with particular ease, intelligent taste, and technical brilliance.

In 2004 he entered the Academy named after Gnessins (composition class of G. V. Tchernov). He is a laureate of the All-Russian contest “Young talents of Mariy El Republic” (Ioshkar-Ola, 1993), the All-Russian contest of concertmasters (Kazan, 1994), the Esenin contest of composers (Moscow, 2005), a laureate of the 3rd harp contest and the contest named after Y. Shishakov. He was accepted to Original Authors & Composers or Publishers (SACEM), France, in 2006. He cooperates with Robert Martin Publishing House (France).

Author of the works: “The kingdom of insects” (piano cycle of 12 plays); opera triptych on the words by K. Tchukovski (“Mukha-Tsokotukha”, “Skriuchennaya pesnia”, “Kradenoye solntse”); melodeclamation cycle on the words by V. Mayakovski; and many others.