Yulia Matochkina |

Yulia Matochkina

Yulia Matochkina is the winner of the XV International Tchaikovsky Competition, the IX International N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov Competition for Young Opera Singers in Tikhvin (2015) and the vocal competition of the Sobinov Music Festival in Saratov (2013).

Born in the city of Mirny, Arkhangelsk region. She graduated from the Petrozavodsk State Conservatory named after A. K. Glazunov (class of Professor V. Gladchenko). In 2008 she became a soloist with the Academy of Young Opera Singers of the Mariinsky Theatre, where she made her debut as Cherubino from Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro. Now her repertoire includes about 30 roles, including in the operas Eugene Onegin (Olga), The Queen of Spades (Polina and Milovzor), Khovanshchina (Martha), May Night (Hanna), Snow Maiden ( Lel), “The Tsar’s Bride” (Lyubasha), “War and Peace” (Sonya), “Carmen” (title part), “Don Carlos” (Princess Eboli), “Samson and Delilah” (Dalila), “Werther” ( Charlotte), Faust (Siebel), Don Quixote (Dulcinea), Gold of the Rhine (Velgunda), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Hermia) and The Dawns Here Are Quiet (Zhenya Komelkova).

On the concert stage, the singer participated in the performance of Mozart and Verdi’s Requiems, Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, Mahler’s Second and Eighth Symphonies, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Berlioz’s Romeo and Juliet, Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky cantata and Ivan the Terrible oratorio, Janacek’s Glagolitic Mass. Julia is a regular participant of the Moscow Easter Festival, the Stars of the White Nights festivals in St. Petersburg, Mikkeli (Finland) and Baden-Baden (Germany). She has also performed at the BBC Proms in London, festivals in Edinburgh and Verbier. She has toured with the Mariinsky Opera Company to Austria, Germany, Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, Finland, Sweden, Japan, China and the USA; Barcelona.