Julia Lezhneva

She started taking lessons in singing and piano at age 5. In 2004 she completed A. Gretchaninov’s music school with distinction, then she continued her education at P. Czajkowski’s Conservatory in Moscow and Cardiff International Academy of Voice. She debuted in the Moscow conservatory singing W.A. Mozart’s Requiem conducted by Vladimir Minin. From that time, her career developed very dynamically. She gave concerts in all of Russia, Japan, Slovakia and in Italy. Together with Marek Minkowski and Les Musiciens du Louvre Grenoble she performed in Santiago de Compostela in Bach’s Mass in B minor. In her repertoire there are works, among others, by A. Vivaldi, W. A. Mozart, J. S. Bach, G. F. Handel, G. Rossini, V. Bellini, F. Schubert, G. Mahler, P. Czajkowski, S. Rachmaninow. In 2008 she received an independent Russian award for the highest achievements in the field of literature and art “Triumf”, and in 2009 she was the laureate of “Mirjam Helin International Singing Competition” in Finland. Recently, she recorded her first solo album for the record company Naïve with G. Rossini’s arias with the participation of Sinfonia Varsovia conducted by Marek Minkowski.