Olga Shyp, soprano, a native of Ukraine, is a graduate of the Odessa State Musical Academy (formerly known as Odessa State Conservatory). She has sung numerous operatic roles including Despina, Cosi Fan Tutte; Adina, L'Elisir d'Amore; Norina, Don Pasquale; Violetta, La Traviata; Silberklang, Der Schauspieldirektor; Lucie, The Telephone; Tonina, Primo la Musica, Poi le Parole; Oksana, Zaporozhets Beyond the Danube; La Chauve-Souris, L'Enfant et les Sortiléges; the title role in Rimsky-Korsakov's Snow Maiden.

An accomplished recitalist and oratorio soloist, Olga has performed in the United States and toured Western and Eastern Europe. Her oratorio repertoire includes Handel's Messiah, Brahms' Requiem, Mozart's Requiem, J.S. Bach's Magnificat, Johannes Passion and Matteus Passion.
Olga combines her career of a classical singer with other related activities, such as conducting, directing and teaching. Her most recent engagement was directing and appearance in the Opera Shorts Festival at Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall on October 1, 2010 presented by Remarkable Theater Brigade. Olga's other engagements with this company include a fundraiser for Haiti, Opera Shorts at Carnegie Hall (2009), Emerging Composers Chamber Operas concert (in collaboration with Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music), performing in a master class with Marvin Hamlisch and directing a concert of opera scenes for its 2009 Young Artist Program.
Karina Azatyan, piano, a native of Armenia, is a graduate of Manhattan School of Music and Jerusalem Rubin Academy of Music. She has worked as a vocal coach and an accompanist with Virginia Opera, Opera Lyra in Ottawa, Israel Vocal Arts Institute, Virginia Opera, New York Vocal Institute, Dell'Arte Opera Ensemble, Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, Brooklyn College Opera Theatre, Brooklyn Youth Chorus Academy, New Jersey Association of Verismo Opera and collaborated with many acclaimed musicians such as Lyuba Kazarnovskaya of Kirov Theater, Angela Brown of Metropolitan Opera, Oksana Kravitskaya of Bolshoi Theater, violinist Dmitry Zuckerman, et al.

Ms. Azatyan is a recipient of scholarships from the American-Israel Cultural Foundation and from the Jewish Foundation for Education of Women. She has received full scholarships from Manhattan School of Music and Jerusalem Academy of Music.

Ms. Azatyan is currently a vocal coach at New York University and Manhattan School of Music.
Roza Tulyaganova, soprano, a native of Uzbekistan, is a graduate of Manhattan School of Music. She has sung Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi (Mississippi Opera), Rosalinda in Die Fledermaus (Las Vegas), Musetta in La Bohème (Cantiamo Opera, NY), Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Brooklyn Opera), Micaëla in Carmen (Brooklyn Conservatory), Livia in Cimarosa's L' Italiana in Londra and La Ciesca in Gianni Schicchi (Manhattan School of Music), First Lady in Die Zauberflöte (Intermezzo Festival in Florida), Fiordilidgi in Così fan Tutte (Hubbard Opera Theater, NY), Nella in Gianni Schicchi (Rockland Opera, NY), and Donna Anna in The Stone Guest (Stony Brook University).

Ms. Tulyaganova also appeared as a featured artist in concerts with Las Vegas Opera and Las Vegas Philharmonic. She is a first place winner of Texas Music Teachers Association Competition, two time District winner of Metropolitan Opera Audition, district winner of the National Association of Teachers of Singing Award, and a finalist of the Meistersinger Competition in Graz, Austria.

Ms. Tulyaganova is currently a Resident Artist at the Dicapo Opera Theatre.
Elena Mindlina, mezzo-soprano, a native of Russia, has received a Master's Degree in violin from the State Saratov Conservatory. In 2006 she came to New York to study Musical Theatre at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in Manhattan. Shortly after graduation Ms. Mindlina "thrilled the audience" with her Broadway debut at Town Hall, received a standing ovation at Symphony Space and "stopped" her first Off-Broadway show.

Two years later Ms. Mindlina decided to switch the stage and explore the riveting field of classical singing. She has received a Master's Degree as an opera singer in May 2010 from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Her favorite operatic roles include Dorabella in Così fan Tutte, Alessandro in Cavalli's Eliogabalo (NY premiere) and Fyodor in Boris Godunov, which she will be singing with Utah Festival Opera this summer.
 
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