Yelena Kurdina
Vocal coach/Accompanist
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Opera Companies
Metropolitan Opera 1992 – present
- Assistant Conductor
- Russian Diction Coach
Washington National Opera 2000 - present
- Assistant Conductor
- Prompter
Los Angeles Opera 2003, 2001
· Assistant Conductor
Opera National de Paris, Bastille 2003
· Assistant Conductor
· Russian Diction Coach
· Prompter
Vienna Staats Oper 1999
· Private coach to Placido Domingo
New York City Opera 1994
· Guest Russian Coach
Teatro della Maestranza , Sevilla, Spain 1992
· Assistant Conductor
Orchestras & Festivals
· Bard Summerscape Festival 2004
· Cincinnati May Festival 2003
· Opera Orchestra of New York 1991 - 2003
· National Symphony Orchestra, Washington , DC 1998
Training Programs & Universities
-
Domingo-Thornton Young Artist Program, Los Angeles 2006-present
- Saltillo Summer Festival, Mexico 2005
- Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist Program, Washington, DC 2002 - present
- IVAI, Tel Aviv Israel 1990 - present
- OMTI (Opera/Music Theater Institute of New Jersey) 1988-1990
- University of Connecticut 1991,1992
Competitions/Concerts
- Richard Tucker Foundation Annual Concerts 2000 - present
- Richard Tucker Foundation Gala 1995 - present
- Operalia/P.Domingo World Opera Contest 1999
- D’Angelo Young Artist Competition 1987 - 1996
- Rosa Ponselle International Vocal Competition 1990
Telecasts and broadcasts
- “Eugene Onegin”, Lincoln Center Opening Night Gala 2003
- R.Fleming, D.Hvorostovsky
- Richard Tucker Concert/Temple Emanu-El, New York 2002
- B.Terfel, M.Giordani, C.Vaness
- Richard Tucker Foundation Concert, WQXR 2000
- “Queen of Spades” Metropolitan Opera 1999
- P.Domingo, V.Gergiev
- On Wings of Song,WQXR, Recital 1996
- Olga Makarina
- Annual Broadcasts from the Metropolitan Opera 1992 - present
Collaborations with conductors
Leon Botstein Vladimir Jurowski Eve Queler
Semyon Bychkov Henry Lewis Stefano Ranzani
James Conlon Seiji Ozawa Mstislav Rostropovich
Valery Gergiev Antonio Pappano Marcello Viotti
Collaborative Pianist
Stephanie Blythe Jennifer Larmore
Placido Domingo Olga Makarina
Marcello Giordani Anna Netrebko
Hei-Kyung Hong Elena Obraztsova
Dmitry Hvorostovsky Krassimira Stoyanova
Vocal Coach
June Anderson
Irina Arkhipova
Aihnoa Arteta
Olga Borodina
Robert Brubaker
Paata Burchuladze
Jeanne Michelle Charbonnet
Dwayne Croft
Vladimir Chernov
Placido Domingo
Mignon Dunn
Katarina Dalayman
Larisa Diadkova
Stefka Evstatieva
Maria Ewing
Renee Fleming
Mirella Freni
Nucia Focile
Carole Farley
Marcello Giordani
Nicolai Ghiaurov
Nancy Gustafson
Rodney Gilfry
Galina Gorchakova
Maria Guleghina
Vladimir Galuzin
Gegam Grigorian
Ben Heppner
Thomas Hampson
Karen Huffstodt
Dmitry Hvorostovsky
Salvatore Licitra
Sergei Leiferkus
James Morris
Karita Mattila
Catherine Malfitano
Irina Mishura
Olga Makarina
Anna Netrebko
Elena Obraztsova
Vladimir Ognovenko
Rosalind Plowright
Adrianne Pieczonka
Paul Plishka
Felicity Palmer
Samuel Ramey
Leonie Ryzanek
Elisabeth Soderstrom
Krassimira Stoyanova
Veronica Villaroel
Dolora Zajick
Elena Zaremba
Education
University of Illinois 1985
MM in Vocal Accompanying and Coaching
with professor John Wustman
St. Louis Conservatory of Music 1982
BM in Piano Performance
St .Petersburg State Music College 1979
Diploma in Piano Performance & Accompanying
Languages
Russian, English, Italian - fluent
Spanish, German, French - diction & reading
References available upon request