| Maxim Paster, guest soloist, tenor. He is a soloist of the Bolshoi Theatre and a participant in the Tenors of the 20th Century art project. Maksim graduated from the Choral Department of the Kharkov Academy of Music in 1994 and the Vocal Department of the Kharkov State Arts University (Prof Tsurkan’s class, and Prof. Gendelman’s chamber signing class, 2003).In 2003, he made his first appearance on the stage of the National Ukrainian Opera (Kiev) participating in Verdi’s Requiem and at the Bolshoi Theatre performing the part of Bayan in Glinka’s Ruslan and Lyudmila. From 2003 to 2007, he sang Andrei (Tchaikovsky’s Mazeppa, Macduff (Verdi’s Macbeth), Mephistopheles (Prokofiev’s The Fiery Angel), Daland's steersman
(Wagner’s Der fliegende Holländer), Prince Vasiliy Shuisky (Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov), Zinovi Borisovich (Shostakovich’s ‘/Katerina Izmailova/), Pinkerton Puccini’s Madama Butterfly), Pong (Puccini’s Turandot) La Remendadao (Bizet’s Carmen) and other parts the Bolshoi Theatre of Russia. In 2004, he performed the part of Prince in Dvořák’s Rusalka (the Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, conductor Valery Poliansky). In 2005, he sang the part of Pyotr Tchaikovsky in the world premiere of Desyatnikov’s Children of Rosenthal /(The Bolshoi Theatre). In 2006, he appeared on the stage of Teatro di San Carlo (Italy), performing the tenor part in Shubert’s /Es-dur Mass (conductor Thomas Netopil). In the same year he sang the tenor part in Stravinsky’s Les Noces and Mendelssohn’s Die Erste Walpurgisnacht (the orchestra and choir of the Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk, conductor Mario Venzago) in Germany (Leipzig GewandHaus and Weimar, Weimarhalle). In Sweden (Gothenburg) he performed the tenor part in Verdi's Requiem (conductor Alexander Vedernikov). In 2007, he performed Shuisky (Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov, conductor Daniele Gatti) in Teatro Comunale di Bologna. Also, he performed Don Ottavio in Mozart’s Don Giovanni in the Verdi Theatre in Trieste (Italy), the title role in Stravinsky’s opera-oratorio Oedipus Rex and the tenor part in Janacek’s Glagolitic Mass (conductor Irzhy Beloglavek). Awards and Honours- Laureate of the Antonin Dvořák International Competition (2000, Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic)
- Prize-winner of the Amber Nightingale International Chamber Singing Competition (1st prize and a special prize of the Russian Composers’ Union, 2002, Kaliningrad)
- Prize-winner of the Anatoly Soloviyanenko International Young Singers Competition, Nightingale Fair, (Gran Prix, 2002, Donetsk, Ukraine)
- Laureate of the Lysenko International Competition (2002, Kiev, Ukraine)
- Prize-winner of the 1st Boris Gmyria International Vocal Competition (Gran Prix, 2004, Kiev, Ukraine)
- Winner of the Irina Arkhipova Foundation’s prize (2005)
- Prize-winner of the Tchaikovsky International Competition (3rd prize, 2007, Moscow)
Roles performed at the Novaya OperaTenor in Webber's Requiem |
