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The Russian-born soprano & mezzo-soprano, Maria Kozlova, graduated in 2005 in choral conducting with distinction from the St. Petersburg State Conservatoire. While still in St Petersburg, she auditioned for the RSAMD to enter the preliminary opera studies course. After two years, she won a coveted place on their Opera Course. She is a graduate of the Elena Obraztsova International Academy of Music in Saint Petersburg. In 2005, she moved to Glasgow, Scotland, where she studied under Patricia Hay in the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (RCS)'s Alexander Gibson Opera School, attaining her Master of Opera degree with distinction (2005-2008). During her time at RCS she gave several lunchtime recitals in Stevenson Hall and won the Tony and Tania Webster prize for Russian Song and Ye Cronies Opera Award. The majority of funding for her studies was granted by the Dewar Arts Awards (2007). She later graduated, with an Master of Arts degree in Advanced Vocal Studies (Distinction), from the Welsh International Academy of Voice (WIAV) in Cardiff where she studied with Denis O’Neill.
Maria Kozlova has a strong lyric soprano voice of quality, substance and power. With a winning combination of talent, determination and potential, it is considered that she will develop a career of some distinction as a solo artist. Her operatic credits include: Tatyana in Eugene Onegin with Bury Court Opera and Southbank Sinfonia in Ischia, Italy; Lady Macbeth’s Lady-in-Waiting in Macbeth (cover) at Glyndebourne Festival Opera; Tatyana (cover) in Eugene Onegin at Grange Park Opera; Natasha Rostova in the world premiere of the original version of Prokofiev’s War and Peace (2010); Nicolette in L’amour de trois oranges (2009) and Tatyana in Eugene Onegin (2008): all in a collaboration between the RCS and Scottish Opera at Glasgow’s Theatre Royal and Edinburgh Festival Theatre. Her repertoire also includes Mimi in La Bohème, Micaela in Georges Bizet's Carmen, Antonia in Les Contes d'Hoffmann and Blanche in Francis Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmélites. She appeared in Opera Galas at the Aberdeen International Music Festival and at Clonter Opera, performing a number of excerpts from major repertoire |
