Photo: Patrick Allen, Opera Omnia
Natalya Romaniw
Representation: General Management
Natalya Romaniw is a Hazard Chase Young Associate Artist.
Natalya Romaniw studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama under the guidance of John Llewelyn Evans. Natalya’s grandfather, originally from the Ukraine, settled in Wales during the Second World War. Natalya was born in Morriston, South Wales where she regularly appears as a guest soloist for Male voice choirs including the Morriston Orpheus, Pontarddulais and the Dunvant male voice.
Operatic engagements have included La Rondine with British Youth Opera, the cover of First Nymph in Rusalka at the Glyndebourne Festival and Anne Truelove The Rake’s Progress at the Millennium Centre, Cardiff for WNYO. Her performance was described as ‘A performance of remarkable maturity’ and ‘utterly sympathetic’ by Glyn Purseglove. More recently she appeared as Giulia in La Scala di Seta for BYO.
Already in demand as a soloist on the concert platform Natalya recently appeared in a performance of Messiah in Fishguard, in a recital of Rachmaninov Songs at St Luke’s at the Barbican, also in recital at the Swansea Festival, Ammanford Arts, and at St David’s Hall Cardiff.
In 2006 Natalya was a prizewinner in the Young Kathleen Ferrier Bursary award she also won first prize at the London Welsh ‘young singer of the year’ and more recently, first prize in the 2008 Welsh Singers Competition. She reached the final of the song prize in the 2009 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World. Natalya is also the winner of this year’s Clonter Opera Prize.
Recent engagements include Fiordiligi Cosi fan tutte and Arminda La Finta Giardiniera (Opera Scenes, GSMD), soprano and presenter in the documentary Chopin and the Singer for BBC Four, Anne Truelove (cover) The Rake’s Progress with Glyndebourne Festival Opera. In 2009 Natalya was the soloist with the Manchester Camerata for their popular New Year’s concerts and she has been invited to join them again for their 2010 celebration. Further appearances include a recital of English Song with Iain Burnside, the title role in La Spinalba, Blanche Les Dialogues des Carmelites and the title role in Iolanta for GSMD next season.
Natalya is a Hazard Chase Young Associate Artist and is the recipient of an MBF award, she won a Susan Chilcott scholarship and is kindly supported this year by the Elizabeth Evans Trust, The Countess of Munster Trust, Chris Ball, the Atlantic Foundation, the Derek Butler Trust, the Music Students’ Hostel Trust and the Miriam Licette Scholarship administered by the Musicians Benevolent Fund.
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Email: Lucie Davienne
