„With beautiful, a heart touching soprano - voice and dramatically changeable...“ wrote the magazine Opernglas in September 2010 about Julia Sukmanova´s debut as Agathe in "Der Freischütz" at the opera festival 2010 in Eutin (Germany).
Curriculum Vitae
As a child Julia Sukmanova was supported by her parents to study music, and was sent by them to the special music school for gifted children in St. Petersburg, where at the beginning she studied piano (the class of Leonid Sincev) and composition (the class of Elena Schafran, chamber music). In 1998 Miss Sukmanova graduated from Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire in St. Petersburg as a pianist, as a concert accompanist and as a chamber orchestra musician.
Miss. Sukmanova took private singing lessons from Donat Donatov, a famous Russian dramatic tenor (a pupil of Aureliano Pertile), during her studies at the State Conservatory in St. Petersburg. She then continued her studies as an opera singer at the State Academy of Music in Freiburg, Germany, under Professor Markus Goritzki.
In addition, she attended master-classes and private lessons given by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Montserrat Caballé, Ks. Birgitte Fassbaender, Kurt Moll, Inga Nielsen, Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Dame Gwyneth Jones, and Professor Michael Schlüter - Padberg.
Awards
Julia Sukmanova was awarded prizes both as a pianist and as a singer. Miss Sukmanova won 1st prize and Silver Badge in Richard Strauss Voice Competition in Munich, where she gave a concert with the world famous conductor Wolfgang Sawallisch. At the Singing Competition organized by the Rotary Club in Stuttgart, Miss Sukmanova was awarded 1st prize. At the 52nd ARD International Music Competition 2003 she won Third Prize.
Opera
From 2003 to 2005 Julia Sukmanova was a member of the international opera studio of the Hamburg State Opera, where she made her brilliant debut as Donna Anna in Mozart’s "Don Giovanni". At the Hamburg State Opera Julia Sukmanova gained considerable professional experience on the opera stage. She performed the following roles: Donna Anna in "Don Giovanni", Alcina in "Alcina", Pamina in "The Magic Flute", Marzelline in "Fidelio", Anna in "Nabucco", Flower maiden in "Parsifal", Isabelle in " Lächerlicher Prince Jodelet" by R. Keiser, Hüter der Schwelle in "The Woman without a Shadow" by R. Strauss, Ninetta in "The Love for Three Oranges" by Prokofiev, La voce dal cielo in “ Don Carlos” by Verdi and the role of the Angel in the German premiere of the opera "Angels in America" by Peter Eötvös.
Since 2005 Miss Sukmanova has been engaged as a freelance opera and concert singer on different European stages acting as Violetta in "La Traviata", Mimi in “La Bohème", Pamina in "The Magic Flute", Norma in "Norma", Tatiana in „Eugene Onegin", Celia in "Lucio Silla", Barena in "Jenufa". Miss Sukmanova gave brilliant guest performances in The Opera Houses of Innsbruck, Bonn, Schwerin, and Erfurt, at the Hamburg State Opera and at the State Opera Stuttgart.
Concerts / orchestras
On numerous occasions Julia Sukmanova has sung Beethoven's Ninth Symphony at the PHILHARMONIE GASTEIG with the Münchener Symphoniker conducted by Georg Schmöhe. This Symphony was also performed by her at the UKRAINE NATIONAL PHILHARMONIE in Kiev, at the CONCERTGEBOUW in Amsterdam, at the MEISERSINGERHALLE in Nurnberg, in Kempten, Bavaria and at the PHILHARMONIE KUFSTEIN in Austria.
In Freiburg (Germany) and in Alba (Italy) Miss Sukmanova brought Mozart’s Requiem and The Coronation Mass to the public. In collaboration with Zurich Chamber Orchestra and Howard Griffiths, she performed the 14th Symphony by D. Schostakovitsch on tour in TONHALLE Zürich and in Bern.
With the Stuttgart State Orchestra she sang the soprano solo in Verdi’s Requiem at the LIDERHALLE in Stuttgart and in KONZERTHAUS in Klagenfurt with Kärtner Symphony orchestra.
With Hamburger Symphonieker she performed with “Romantic pure" at the Town hall in Hamburg and took part in the Opera Gala for Thomas Mann´s " Zauberberg" at the Eutin Music Festival 2010, singing the arias and scenes from the operas Traviata, La Bohéme and Aida (conducted by Ulrich Windfuhr). With NDR Orchestra she performed with Maestro Stefan Blunier the "Cäcilienmesse" by Gounod and scenes from Rimsky – Korsakov’s “Snow Maiden" in the studio of the NDR Station in Hannover.
With Liederkranz in Stuttgart she sang brilliantly the role of Giovanna in Verdi’s "Giovanna d´Arco" in Beethovensaal of the Stuttgart Liederhalle. In 2007 Julia took part as Soprano Solo in Sofia Gubaidulina´s "Johannes Passion and Ester" performed in German at the Stuttgart Liederhalle and Dresden conducted by Hellmuth Rilling.
Festivals
Miss Sukmanova has participated in many festivals across Europe, including the RICHARD STRAUSS FESTIVAL in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, BACHWOCHE in Stuttgart, ZÜRCHER FESTSPIELE, HUGO WOLF TAGE in St. Pauli in Austria, and "LES FLÂNERIES MUSICALES" in the Rhine. At the JENNERSDORFER KULTURHERBST in Jopera, Austria, she sang the role of Donna Anna.
She participated at the HOLLAND MUSIC FESTIVAL in Amsterdam 2006 with the role of Angel in the Dutch premiere of the opera "Angels in America" by Peter Eötvös, conducted by the composer himself. The singer took on the role of Violetta in Verdi’s Traviata at the MECKLENBURG SCHLOSSFESTSPIELE 2006. At the FESTIVAL in EUTIN 2010 she made her successful debut as Agathe in the new production of "Der Freischütz" by Kay Kuntze, Ulrich Windfuhr conducting.
Recordings/Radio productions
Sofia Gubaidulina´s "Johannes Passion and Easter" was a premiere in German performed at the Liederhalle in Stuttgart and conducted by Hellmuth Rilling, recorded live for CD (Hänssler Classic). The same work was performed in Dresden’s Frauenkirche, parts of which were recorded in Stuttgart and were enthusiastically received by both public and critics alike.
Over the last few years many recordings for radio have been made, for example, for NDR, SWR, ORF, DRS, DRS 2, Hr2 Culture, Bavarian Broadcasting und Radio Chamber-Philharmonic in Holland. Also as a singer and as an eloquent expert of the old and new concert’s tradition, Miss Sukmanova gave interviews for the program Culture – Prism “Pauline Viardot zum 100 Todestag" (2010) for the NDR Culture. Radio series “Singing – every day culture und passion - the Voice as an Instrument for Singing und the Mirror of Ourselves” by Dr. Birgit Kiupel und Volker Bernius were recorded for the Hr2 Culture.
Conductors
Stefan Blunier, Peter Eötvös, Matties Foremny, Howard Griffits, Ion Marin, Alessandro de Marchi, Ingo Metzmacher, Cornelius Meister, Helmuth Rilling, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Peter Schneider, Georg Schmöhe, and Ulrich Windfuhr.
Stage Directors
Brigite Fassbaender, Caroline Gruber, Peter Konwitschny, Christof Loy, Hans Neuenfels, Uwe Eric Laufenberg, Benedikt von Peter, Kay Kuntze and Robert Wilson.
Songs
Among Miss Sukmanova’s musical interests the art of a lieder is very important for the singer. She performs regularly recitals in Germany, Russia, and Spain. This year she gave a lieder recital at the Laeiszhalle in Hamburg. Together with her sister Elena Sukmanova (piano) and Dr. Birgitte Kiupel (a journalist and an artist) she produced a music lounge called “Pauline Viardot – the seductive Prima Donna and her time" at the Monsoon theatre. By creating the authentic atmosphere of the epoch, when cultural exchanges took place through the whole of Europe, the musicians presented Russian romances and illustrated the scenes with the drawings by Madame Viardot.
Cv-update: season 2010 - 2011 |
