Yulia Matochkina

Mezzo soprano

• Prize-winner at the All-Russian Competition Young Talents of Russia (Moscow, 2008)
• Prize-winner at the IV International Orpheus Young Singers’ Competition (Volgograd, 2007, 2^nd prize)

Born in Mirny (Arkhangelsk Region). In 2004 she graduated from the Arkhangelsk Regional School of Music, conducting and choral department. In 2009 she graduated from the vocal faculty of the Petrozavodsk Glazunov State Conservatoire (class of V.A. Gladchenko).
Since 2008 she has been a soloist with the Mariinsky Academy of Young Singers.

Repertoire at the Mariinsky Theatre includes:
Ganna (May Night)
Nicoletta (The Love for Three Oranges)
Storchenko’s Brunette Sister, Peasant Woman (Shponka and His Aunt)
Third Lady (Die Zauberflöte)
Witch, Third Nymph (Rusalka by Antonín Dvořák)
Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro)