1. Jury chairman

Olga Sosnovskaya

Russia, Syktyvkar

Soprano. Honored Artist of Russia, People's Artist of the Komi Republic, laureate of international and All-Russian vocal competitions, laureate of the State Prize of the Komi Republic, awarded the medal "For Special Services to the Komi Republic". President of the International Cultural Foundation "Classics and Modernity", Honorary Citizen of the city of Syktyvkar. Leading soloist of the State Opera and Ballet Theater of the Komi Republic. Lecturer at the College of Arts of the Komi Republic and the Gymnasium of Arts under the Head of the Komi Republic named after Yu.A. Spiridonov. She was awarded the Patriarchal Diploma of Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia.

A graduate of the Syktyvkar School of Music (class of the Honored Worker of Culture of the Russian Federation, People's Artist of the Komi Republic, Honored Teacher of the Komi ASSR S.P. Markov), the Petrozavodsk branch of the Leningrad Conservatory named after S.P. ON THE. Rimsky-Korsakov. Passed an assistant internship at the Russian Academy of Music. Gnesins in Moscow (class of the People's Artist of the USSR Z.A. Dolukhanova), an internship in Italy with the famous singer Fyodora Barbieri (Florence), at the Mariinsky Theater Academy in St. Petersburg.

The geography of Olga Sosnovskaya's tours, both with solo concerts and as part of Russian theaters, is practically the entire European part of Russia, Europe, Great Britain, Scandinavian countries, the Baltic States, Africa, China, India, Sri Lanka.

The repertoire includes over 450 vocal pieces, 21 opera parts and 19 roles in operetta. The creative baggage contains 7 CD / DVD albums.

Chairman and jury member of numerous international competitions and festivals.

Detailed biography and resume of Olga Sosnovskaya on our website.

2. Jury member

Svetlana Afonina

Switzerland, Zurich

Mezzo-soprano. Laureate of international competitions: the Dvorak vocal competition in Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic), the Belvedere in Vienna (Austria), the Robert Stolz vocal competition in Hamburg (Germany), the Luciano Pavarotti vocal competition in Modena (Italy) and the Di canto lirico vocal competition, ( Italy). Graduated with honors from the theoretical department of the musical college in Penza. This is followed by training at the vocal department in the class of Professor N. Voitsekhovskaya at the Odessa Music Academy, which she also graduates with honors. Immediately after graduating from the Academy in 1991, she was selected by the commission to represent Ukraine's vocal skills at the Dvořák International Vocal Competition, which was a special event in her creative life, influenced the determination of the entire creative path. Svetlana Afonina becomes the Laureate of this competition, she is invited to tour the theaters of Czechoslovakia, but most importantly, the President of the jury - tenor, Professor Andriy Kukharski, is interested in her voice and invites her to her postgraduate class at the Munich Academy of Music, which she also graduates with honors ...

The singer conducts an extensive touring activity, both in Russia and abroad: Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Denmark, Spain, Poland. She is a soloist of many European opera houses. On international opera stages, she shines in the most famous roles for mezzo-soprano (main: Cinderella - G. Rossini "Cinderella", Favorite - G. Donizetti "Favorite", Carmen - Bizet "Carmen", Azucena - G. Verdi "Troubadour" , Lyubasha - N. Rimsky-Korsakov "The Tsar's Bride").

Since 2009, he has been casting director of the Artist Direction Stage Concert and Opera Association (Switzerland). Since 2013 he has become the casting director of the international opera festival "Opera in Fortess" (Odessa). Since 2014 - casting director of the first international opera festival "Munot Schaffhausen". Since 2016 - Chief Artistic Director of the International Opera Festival "Opernspiele Munot". Since 2019, he has been a permanent visiting assistant professor of vocal master classes at the Summer Academy at the Palermo Conservatory.

Jury member of international vocal competitions. Artistic director and leading teacher of the vocal master class "Vocal-masterclass-Tenerife" (Tenerife, Spain), the master class "Belcanto" in Switzerland. She pays special attention to the education of young vocalists. In her opera class she brought up many laureates of international competitions and festivals.

3. Jury member

Vera Baranova

Russia, Krasnoyarsk

Soprano. Honored Artist of Russia. Professor. Honorary Worker of Culture of Kuzbass. Twice laureate of the Kuzbass Prize. Laureate of the prize "For personal contribution to the preservation and development of the culture of the Krasnoyarsk Territory." Leading soloist of the Krasnoyarsk State Opera and Ballet Theater named after D.A. Hvorostovsky. Head of the Department of Solo Singing and Opera Training of the Siberian State Institute of Arts named after Dmitry Hvorostovsky.

The geography of Vera Baranova's performances is very wide. She has performed on stages and in concert halls in the Netherlands, Switzerland, England, France, Finland, USA, Argentina, Mongolia, Serbia. She has worked with outstanding contemporary conductors, including F. Mastrangelo (Italy), V. Petrenko (Great Britain), D. Savic (Serbia), Lin Tao (China), People's Artist of the Russian Federation N. Kalinin, E. Brazhnik (Moscow) , D. Volosnikov (Moscow), I. Shpiller (Krasnoyarsk), V. Lande (Krasnoyarsk) and others. In addition, the singer performed on the air of the national radio of Amsterdam, the concert hall. P.I. Tchaikovsky, Column Hall of the House of Unions; She took part in opera performances on the stages of the National Theaters of Serbia (Belgrade, Novi Sad), the Musical Theater. Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko (Moscow), Mikhailovsky Theater (St. Petersburg). Conducts an active concert activity, performing chamber and opera repertoire.

2009 to 2012 She worked as artistic director of the opera troupe of the Krasnoyarsk State Opera and Ballet Theater. During this period, she became the initiator of many projects, the most significant of which is the annual international festival "Parade of Stars in the Opera".

The singer's repertoire includes more than 40 parts of the world opera repertoire. Her works have been repeatedly noted by awards of the regional festival "Theatrical Spring" in the nominations "Best debut" (Violetta in the opera by G. Verdi "La Traviata") and "Best female role in an opera / operetta (musical)" (Snow Maiden in the opera of the same name by N. Rimsky- Korsakov and Adina in G. Donizetti's opera "Love Potion").

She conducts an active pedagogical activity, gives master classes, during which she shares her unique methodology with young singers. Her students are laureates of All-Russian and international competitions, soloists of the Krasnoyarsk and Mariinsky opera houses. V.P. Baranova Kristina Aliyeva in 2013 at the Mariinsky Theater under the direction of Valery Gergiev sang the difficult part of the Flea in the world premiere of Rodion Shchedrin's opera Lefty.

4. Jury member

Olga Bunder

Estonia, Tallinn

Founder and artistic director of the Russian Romance Club in Tallinn (1997). Artistic director of the Little Opera Children's Theater (1998). Founder, chairman of the organizing committee and jury of the Isabella Yurieva International Competition of Old Russian Romance Performers in Tallinn (1999). Founder and chairman of the jury of the international youthful academic vocal competition in Kohtla-Järve (2004). Honorary Citizen of the City of Tallinn.

She received her musical education in the city of Tartu. For 26 years she sang at the Vanemuine Theater. Then she moved to diplomatic work at the Estonian Embassy in Moscow, then to the Estonian Ministry of Culture as an adviser on national cultures. All these years he has been active in concert activities both in Estonia and abroad (Moscow, St. Petersburg, Arkhangelsk, Komi Republic, Mari-El, Udmurtia, Finland, France, Germany, Italy). Jury member of international competitions in Estonia, Russia, Czech Republic, Poland and Lithuania.

5. Jury member

Vladimir Vaneev

Russia, St. Petersburg

Bass-baritone. People's Artist of Russia. Soloist of the Mariinsky Theater. Head of the vocal department of the St. Petersburg State Conservatory named after N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov, Professor of the Department of Solo Singing of the Institute of Music, Theater and Choreography of the Russian State Pedagogical University named after A.I. Herzen in St. Petersburg, vocal teacher of the Mariinsky Theater Higher School of Opera Training and the Elena Obraztsova International Academy of Music.

Laureate of the State Prize of Russia, laureate of the Prize of the Government of St. Petersburg. Laureate of numerous all-Russian and international vocal competitions, including: F.I. Shalyapin, the national prize of the Golden Soffit competition, the II prize of the vocalist competition in Paris, the III prize and the best bass prize of the Verdi voices competition in Italy, the II prize of the vocal competition in Perm. The repertoire includes 54 parts of world opera classics. He sang in the best theaters in the world: Metropolitan Opera, Covent Garden, Opera Bastille, La Scala, Rome Opera, Salzburg, German Opera in Berlin and many other theaters.

Jury member of numerous Russian and international competitions.

6. Jury member

Sergey Zaitsev

Russia, Moscow

Tenor. Honored Artist of Russia. Producer. Educator. Laureate of the Grand Prix at the Isabella Yurieva International Competition for Old Russian Romance Performers in Tallinn (2004). He was awarded the Order of Sergius of Radonezh of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Graduated from the Novosibirsk State Conservatory (1989), the State Institute of Theater Arts (GITIS, 1994. Faculty of Directing Musical Theater).

Soloist of the State Opera and Ballet Theater of the Komi Republic (1989-1991). The soloist of the choral theater under the direction of B.S. Pevzner. (1993 - 2000) Soloist at the Bregen Opera Festival in Austria (2001-2004). Soloist of the Moscow Male Chamber Choir (2005 - 2015). Soloist of the festive choir of the Novospassky, stavropegic, male monastery (1995 - 2015). As a guest soloist, he collaborated with the Moscow State Symphony Orchestra conducted by V.I. Fedoseeva. With solo concert programs he toured Switzerland, Germany, Finland, Sweden, Holland, Italy, Greece.

Artistic director of the Balaganchik children's musical theater. He is a member of the jury of several all-Russian and international competitions: "Sibiriada" in Kemerovo, "Prague Christmas" in Prague, the competition of the old Russian romance them. Isabella Yurieva in Tallinn, a classical vocal competition in Kohtla-Järve, a competition "Children play early music" in Moscow. There are three CD albums in the work of Sergei Zaitsev.

7. Jury member

Alexey Lavrov

USA, New York

Baritone. Laureate of international competitions. A native of the city of Pechora, the Komi Republic. Graduate of the Gymnasium of Arts under the Head of the Komi Republic named after Yu.A. Spiridonov. Graduated from the St. Petersburg State Conservatory in 2010. While still a student, he sang the part of Onegin (Eugene Onegin by P. Tchaikovsky) at the festival in Rheinsberg Castle (Germany) and was invited to the Mikhailovsky Theater troupe as a soloist, where he performed the roles of Silvio (Pagliacci by R. Leoncavallo), Robert (Iolanta "P. Tchaikovsky), Baron Dufol (" La Traviata "by G. Verdi). In November-December 2009 he sang the part of Onegin on the Mikhailovsky Theater tour in Japan.

From September 2010 to August 2012, he was a member of the troupe of artists of the Youth Program of the Bolshoi Theater of Russia, where he performed the roles of Morales (Carmen by J. Bizet), Robert (Iolanta by P. Tchaikovsky) and Shchelkalov (Boris Godunov by M. Mussorgsky).

From 2012 to 2014, he was an artist of the Lindemann youth program at the Metropolitan Opera, where he trained under the guidance of James Levine, Ken Noda, Renata Scotto, Marco Armiglato, Petr Bechala, Fabio Luisi, Yannick Neset-Séguin and many other outstanding artists and teachers. Since the end of the program, he has performed annually on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera as a guest artist and during this time has performed more than 10 roles and 100 performances, many of which were broadcast in HD cinemas around the world. Among the most important roles performed at the Metropolitan Opera are Malatesta in Don Pasquale, Silvio in Pagliacci, Schonard in La Boheme, Ping in Turandot, and others. He also took part in the recording of the opera Rusalka. A. Dvořák with Rene Fleming in the lead role, which was released on DVD under the Metropolitan Opera and Decca labels.

Engagements in other theaters around the world include: Silvio (Pagliacci by R. Leoncavallo) at the Zurich Opera House, Tsarevich Afron (The Golden Cockerel by N. Rimsky-Korsakov, premiere) at the Royal Theater in Madrid, Albert (Werther by J. Massenet) at the KulturArte festival in Puerto Rico, Aleko ("Aleko" by S. Rachmaninoff) in North Carolina, USA, Malatesta ("Don Pasquale" by G. Donizetti) at the opera houses of Cincinnati and Atlanta, USA, Mercutio ("Romeo and Juliet" Gounod) at an opera festival in Peru with H.D. Flores in the title role, Demetri ("A Midsummer Night's Dream" by B. Britten) at the Moscow Musical Theater. Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko, Donald ("Billy Budd" by B. Britten) at the Municipal Theater of Santiago Chile, and others. Conducts an active concert activity.

In the 2018-2019 season, Alexei Lavrov appeared at the Metropolitan Opera as Morales (Carmen by J. Bizet), at the North Carolina Opera House as Onegin (E. Onegin by P. Tchaikovsky) and at the Puerto Rico Festival as Silvio ("Pagliacci" by R. Leoncavallo) with Roberto Alagna and Alexandra Kuzhak, and also made his debut in the part of Belcore ("Love Potion" by G. Donizetti) at the International Music Festival in Macau in China and in the gala concert "Classics at Palace Square - 2019 "in St. Petersburg.

8. Jury member

Simone Maria Marziali

Italy, Florence

Conductor, accompanist, vocal coach, director of the Musikos Agency in Florence. Born in Rome. After graduating from a music school in Fiesole (Florence), he graduated as a pianist from the Mascagni Conservatory in Livorno, then from the Academy in Bologna with a degree in opera conducting. Laureate of many national and international piano competitions, including chamber ensemble competitions.

As a pianist - soloist and conductor he has performed at many prestigious concert venues around the world. As a concertmaster-pianist and 2nd conductor, he worked for more than ten years at the G. Puccini Festivals in theaters in Italy and abroad, including the national theaters of Avignon, Tokyo (NHK), Opera Australia and many others. He has collaborated with prominent conductors such as Roberto Tolomelli, Keri-Lynn Wilson, Andrea Licata, Antonio Pyrolli, Massimo de Bernart, Alberto Veronesi. In 2012 he conducted Aida on a tour of Belgium and Holland directed by Francesco Bellotto (chief director of Teatro Donizetti in Bergamo), and in January 2019 - Madame Butterfly at Teatro Verdi (Kashana Terme) in the Italian city of Pisa. Regularly conducts master classes at the Montagnano Academy in Vicenza (Italy), the Tallinn Opera Academy 'PLMF'.

In 2010 he founded the Musikos Agency in Florence, to which over the years the leading artists of the music world belonged: Sopranos - Olga Romanko, Maria Billeri, Stephanie Bonfadelli; Mezzo-soprano - Karin Seshaye, Annunzata Vestri, Helen Lepalaan; Tenors - Cristjan Ricci, Giorgio Casharri; Baritones - Mauro Buddha, Marzio Giossi; Basses - Paolo Pekkeli; Conductors - Denis Vlasenko, Franco Trinka, Roberto Tolomelli; Directed by Dieter Kaegi, Hiroki Hihara, Marcello Lipi and many others. As a producer he organizes opera productions in the OpenAir format.

Conducts coaching in Italy with the famous soprano Stefania Bonfadeli at the Federican Andria Academy (Bari), at the Ariadimusica Music Academy of Rome, at the Trevignano Romano Palace in Rome, on Lake Bracciano, as well as competitions and Master classes with Maestro Marco Baldari and the Soprano / Produced from Korea by Christina Park at the VisiDarte Roman Academy, at the Theater in Lucca, with Maestro Franco Trinka (musical director of the Opera Biel) in Switzerland.

Jury member of numerous international competitions in Italy: 'Marcella Pobbe' in Vicenza, Aurelio Pertila in Montagnana, Federico II in Andria, Omegamusica in Florence, Franca Mattiucci in Asti, La Fenice Serravezza in Lucca, vocal competition dedicated to the tenor and many Velli Yurna others.

In November 2016, he was a member of the jury and gave master classes at the VI International S.V. Rachmaninov (St. Petersburg) and the PLMF competition in Tallinn (Estonia). In 2017 and 2018 - competitions and master classes at the Jerusalem Opera Studio of the University of Khibru in Israel. In November 2019, he took part in the jury of the VIII International Competition named after S.Ya. Lemeshev in Moscow.

9. Jury member

Sari Mokkila-Karttunen

Finland, Kuopio

Professor of Solo Singing and Pedagogy. Director of the Academy of Music and Dance in the city of Kuopio. Head of the Department of Culture of Music, Dance and Design at the Savonia University of Applied Sciences.

Honorary Worker of Professional Education of the Academy of Arts. Sibelius, Savonia University of Applied Sciences and the Kuopio Conservatory. Laureate of international competitions (Finland).

Graduated from the Sibelius Academy. She studied solo singing, church music and pedagogy. For over 35 years she has been conducting creative vocal and teaching activities. Gives lectures, conducts seminars, pedagogical forums. He teaches and conducts master classes at the University of Iceland, the Reykjavik Academy of Arts and the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. Her students sing in theaters around the world, are laureates of international competitions.

For many years she has taken part in the Savonlinnan Opera Festival and the Kuopio Opera House, and has been active in concerts in Finland and Europe.

Jury member of international competitions in Finland and Russia (St. Petersburg).

10. Jury member

Tatiana Smelkova

Russia, St. Petersburg

Honorary Professor of the A.I. Herzen. Honored Worker of Culture of the Russian Federation. Honorary Worker of Higher Professional Education of the Russian Federation. Head of the Department of Solo Singing of the Institute of Music, Theater and Choreography of the Russian State Pedagogical University named after A.I. Herzen. She was awarded the medal "In Commemoration of the 300th Anniversary of St. Petersburg".

Graduated from the Leningrad State Conservatory. ON THE. Rimsky-Korsakov with a degree in Solo Singing with the qualification of Opera and Concert Singer. Teacher". The total work experience in the specialty is 40 years. She has trained 53 laureates of Russian and international competitions and festivals. Graduates of the vocal class work at the department of the university, sing in the St. Petersburg theaters (the Mariinsky Theater, the State Children's Musical Theater "Zazerkalye"), the State Bolshoi Theater of the Republic of Belarus.

For over 35 years he has been working with children's voices. Gives lectures, conducts seminars, including advanced training courses on the course "Methodology and Methods of Teaching Vocal." For teachers of vocal and choral disciplines, lectures on the topic "Problems of the development of the child's voice. Published 28 works devoted to different aspects of vocal pedagogy.

He conducts master classes in Russia, as well as in the USA (Northern Iowa State University), Denmark (Copenhagen University), Finland (University of Kuopio), China (universities of Shanghai, Ningxia) and other countries of the world.

He is a member of the jury of qualifying rounds in St. Petersburg of the International Vocal Competition "Belvedere", numerous competitions and festivals abroad: Slovakia, Italy, China, Switzerland, Estonia, Finland.

Artistic director of the International V.I. B.T. Shtokolov in St. Petersburg.

11. Jury member

Zhang Cunliang

China, Shanghai

Bass-baritone. Adjunct Professor and Postgraduate Mentor of the College of Music, Shanghai University. Graduated from the Shanghai Conservatory in 1995 with a certificate of honor (honors). His teachers were such masters as Xu Zhaoren, Gu Ping, Zhang Renqing, Ge Chaozhi and Rao Yujian, and others. In 1998, Tsang Chunliang was admitted to the management department of the Shanghai Theater Academy to study management in a personnel training class. In 2001, he directed the production of the Chinese national opera "The Daughter of the Party" in a small theater, setting a precedent for opera to enter a small theater from a large theater. For the role of the Seventh Uncle, whom he played, he received many rave reviews in the media and the audience. In 2002. studied at the National Academy of Music. Tchaikovsky (Ukraine), in the class of Professor Nikolai Kondratyuk, a master of vocal music, well known as the “king of baritones” in Europe, and received the degree of Master of Arts in Music. Laureate of the Jerry Thief International Vocal Competition in Kiev.

Possessing a superb voice, Tsang Chunliang has a wide vocal range for the bass-baritone, which gives his singing on stage artistry and expressiveness. While studying abroad, he achieved overwhelming success for the role of the old gypsy in Rachmaninov's Aleko, Basilio in Rossini's The Barber of Seville and Ping in Puccini's Turandot, etc. He performed with success at the Concert Hall. Tchaikovsky. As the only student studying abroad, at the annual concert of the National Academy of Music. Tchaikovsky, he sang Basilio's aria from the opera The Barber of Seville. His humorous and passionate singing was highly appreciated by experts from Ukraine and colleagues.

Tsang Chunliang often gives recitals for teachers and students. He released the solo album "Black Eyes" of the Chinese singers' collection, the compiled collection "Selected Vocal Music Works for Bass Baritone" (China and Overseas), which is a project of the Shanghai Highlands of Musicology Education. Also featured on the cover of the 12th edition of Songs magazine, founded by the China Musicians Association. In 2006. he visited the city of Almaty (Kazakhstan) with a delegation from the Shanghai government. In 2007. gave an exclusive interview on the CCTV Music Channel and Dunhuang Guofeng Music Talk Show of Shanghai Oriental Television. In 2010 he was a jury member of the Hong Kong International Music Competition and in 2013 the Singapore “China International Vocal Competition”.

In September 2009. he was highly acclaimed by experts and media for his leadership of the Shanghai University Campus Chinese National Opera “Daughter of the Party”, which was included in the Shanghai Municipal Fine Arts Campus list compiled by the Shanghai Municipal Education and Health Commission of the SRS and the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission. He set a record for over twenty straight performances. Tsang Chunliang has been appointed Adjunct Professor at Jiangxi University College of Music, Tsangyu College, Juilin College, and Luijoi Teachers' Training College.

Tsang Chunliang's students have won numerous vocal competitions at home and abroad. He has been repeatedly awarded the Wonderful Teacher Prize.