Olga Zinovieva

The Russian soprano Olga Zinovieva began her professional singing career in the Netherlands. She started performing solo recitals in 2006, while following a Masters course at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. These performances demonstrate a wide diversity of styles, including Italian, French and Russian chamber and opera music. She has performed on numerous concert podiums including the Dr. Anton Philipszaal, Arnold Schoenbergzaal and Kees van Barenzaal in Den Haag, and the Vredenburg in Utrecht.
At the same time she began her musical collaboration with the pianist Sergey Smirnov. This duo performs under the name “SO-Duo” and already within a year of working together these two young musicians recorded their first CD of Rachmaninov songs.
June 2007 saw Olga’s debut performance in oratorio. She sang the soprano solo in Mozart’s Requiem in the Oudekerk in Delft, conducted by Leo Rijkaart.
Olga has also worked with Dmitri Ferschtman on the song cycle ‘Seven Songs based on poems of A. Block’ by Shostakovich, which they performed together in October 2006 with Liza Ferschtman (violin) and Frank van de Laar (piano), and in February 2007 with Arkadi Gutnikov (violin) and Frank van de Laar (piano).
Olga has taken part in master-classes given by Charlotte Margiono (as part of the ‘Festival Classique’ in Den Haag), Jard van Nes, Kelvin Grout and Connie de Jongh, Michael Chance, Henk Smit and Eva Maertson. She was also coached and directed by Kenneth Montgomery in an abridged concertante performance of Mozart’s ‘Le Nozze di Figaro’, where she sang the role of Susanna.
Olga started her musical education at the age of eight, attending music school in her native city of Novosibirsk in Russia. When she was fifteen she was accepted into Novosibirsk Music College where she began her major’s study in classical piano.
Olga’s singing education began when she was twenty in the vocal studio ‘Inspiration’ where she had her first experience of classical singing. At the age of twenty-two she was accepted at Gnesins’ Russian Academy of Music in Moscow. Her singing teacher was the Russian soprano, Professor Margarita Miglow, a former soloist at the famous Bolshoi Theatre. Olga graduated in May 2004 with an Honors Diploma (“Red Diploma”) as Opera Singer, Oratorio and Chamber Music Singer. While at the Academy she performed in numerous opera productions including Rossini’s ‘Il Barbiere di Siviglia’ singing Rosina and Verdi’s ‘La Traviata’ where she sang Violetta. She also participated in numerous concerts on various stages in Moscow and St. Petersburg. She currently studies at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague with Barbara Pearson.