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Vera Danchenko-Stern will be a special musical guest at the Russian Opera Workshop 2011

1/19/2011

 
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Vera Danchenko-Stern was born in Moscow into a family of professional musicians.  She graduated from the Gnessin Institute of Music in Moscow with honors in piano, solo performance, chamber music, vocal and instrumental accompaniment.

    Ms. Danchenko-Stern taught at the Gnessin Institute and toured as an accompanist throughout Russia and Europe before emigrating to Canada in 1979, where she joined the faculty of the Royal Conservatory of music in Toronto.  She has performed highly acclaimed concerts with her brother, violinist Victor Danchenko, in major cities for sold-out houses throughout the world. 

     Since moving to Washington, DC in 1990, Ms. Danchenko-Stern has been heard often here and in Baltimore. Concert appearances include accompanying Pavel Pekarsky's Kennedy Center debut, the Washington debut of Ilya Kaler -- triple prize gold medal winner of the Tchaikovsky, Paganini, and Sibelius competitions -- and voice recitals with Medea Namoradze, Mikhail Manevitch, Sergei Leiferkus, Jerome Barry and Nikita Storojev, to name a few. Other artists such as violist Rivka Golani, and violinist Martin Beaver engaged her as an accompanist. In 1997, she accompanied soprano Carmen Balthrop singing Rachmaninov romances at the Carnegie Hall gala in honor of the 850th anniversary of the founding of Moscow. After Ms. Danchenko-Stern started teaching the course 'Singing in Russian' at the Peabody Conservatory she induced the whole voice faculty into participation in the "Evening of Slavic songs' sung in five Slavic languages.

      Ms. Danchenko-Stern  has completed several tours in Russia. In 2001, she brought her singer-students of the Peabody Conservatory - soprano  Pamela Hay and baritone Timothy Scott Mix, for the 'Golden ring' Russian tour with performances in St. Petersburg, Moscow and Yaroslavl. For the first time American vocal students demonstrated their art in front of the native audiences singing Russian repertoire in Russian. Their recital in St. Petersburg took place at the residence of the Consul General of the United States and was a great success. "Closing my eyes I would have imagined that the singers were native Russians', commented the eminent Russian composer Sergey Slonimsky after the concert. This performance led to the invitation to participate in the International week of the Conservatories in 2002 dedicated to the 140th anniversary of the founding of the St. Petersburg Conservatory.

Three Peabody students - soprano Christina Covannah-Miller, mezzo-soprano Catrin Rowenna-Davis and baritone Timothy Scott Mix and tenor Pablo Henrich of the Catholic University of America, , accompanied by Ms. Danchenko-Stern, gave a full size stunning performance at the Glazunov Hall of the St. Petersburg Conservatory  and  received standing ovation from the enthusiastic audience which they entertained with a selection of classical Russian repertoire, sung in Russian, and music of Broadway.

     Ms. Danchenko-Stern's also serves as Russian diction coach for the Washington National Opera. Her record there includes participation in the production of 'Tsar's bride' by Rimsky-Korsakov (1994), 'Boris Godunov' by Mussorgsky (1997), 'Queen of Spades' (2001) and  "The Maiden of Orleans' (2005) - all by Tchaikovsky. In 2003, Ms. Danchenko -Stern was invited by the Honolulu Opera theater to coach the soloists and chorus for the first Russian opera in the company's repertoire - 'Evgeny Onegin' by Tchaikovsky. She was also engaged in this capacity to work with the Baltimore Symphony chorus for the production of Prokofiev's 'Ivan the Terrible' under the baton of Maestro Yuri Temirkanov. Deeply committed to the development of young artists, Ms. Danchenko-Stern taught at the Catholic University of America from 1992 until 2001 and continues to serve on the faculty of the Peabody Conservatory of Music. She is sought after as a judge, master teacher, and chamber pianist and teaches piano at her private studio in Alexandria, VA. Her recent master classes were presented at the Princeton and Michigan State Universities. With two alumnae of the Peabody Conservatory -- soprano Susan Harwood and mezzo-soprano Patricia Green Ms. Danchenko-Stern has founded Trio Lyrica.

 In 2006, Ms. Danchenko-Stern launched her own concert series Masterpieces of Russian Vocal Music with the purpose of propagating Russian classical art songs among American audiences. The inaugural concert of the Russian Chamber Art Society (RCAS)  - An Anthology of Russian romance at the Lyuceum in the old town of Alexandria on Feb. 5, 2006 featuring soprano Medea Namoradze and bass Mikhail Svetlov, with Vera Danchenko-Stern at the piano, was an overwhelming success . RCAS is now in its sixth season performing for sold out audiences.

Ms. Danchenko-Stern has been included into the centennial edition of  'Who's Who in American women' and is a "National Associate Artist of SAI".


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