From the time of her prize-winning performances at the Queen Elisabeth International Competition in 2000, soprano Olga Pasichnyk has become one of the most sought after soprani in Europe and has been heard on the stages of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Théâtre du Châtelet, Theater an der Wien, Théâtre de la Monnaie, De Vlaamse Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper, the Finnish National Opera, Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, and the Warsaw Opera in works of Monteverdi, Handel, Mozart, Rossini, Verdi, Puccini, Debussy and Tchaikowsky.

In the 2006-2007 season Miss Pasichnyk was awarded the Münchner Operfestspiele Prize for her performances at the Bayerische Staatsoper as Dorinda in Handel’s Orlando and as Junge Frau in Arnaldo de Felice’s Medusa . Also in the season she was soloist in Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis with the Krakow Philharmonic, was heard in Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem Il Trionfo del Tempo with Marc Minkowski and Les Musiciens des Louvres in Paris, and in recital in Barcelona, Zurich and Warsaw.

Future seasons bring Miss Pasichnyk to Le Grand Théâtre de Geneve as Ännchen in Der Freischütz, the Bayerische Staatsoper as Dalinda in Ariodante, Ópera de Paris as Roxana in King Roger and Morgana in Alcina, Vlaams Opera as Blanche in Les Dialogues des Carmelites , Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg as Contessa in Le nozze di Figaro, and the Warsaw Chamber Opera as Donna Anna, Contessa Almaviva, Pamina and Fiordiligi.

Miss Pasichnyk’s renowned concert performances have been at the Berliner Konzerthaus, The Concertgebouw, Salle Pleyel in Paris, Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels, and with the Academy of Ancient Music, Luxembourg Philharmonic, the Polish National Radio Orchestra, English Concert, the Wiener Symphoniker, the National Orchestra of Belgium, National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia, L’Orchestre de Radio France, L’Orchestre National de France. Orchestre Colonne in Paris, Das Neues Orchester in Cologne, the RTVE orchestra in Spain, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, under the batons of Marcello Viotti, Harry Bicket, Jerzy Maksymiuk, Ivor Bolton, Franz Brüggen, Rene Jacobs, Heinz Holliger, Philippe Herreweghe, Kazimierz Kord, Gabriel Chmura, Kazushi Ono, Andrew Parrot, Krzysztof Penderecki, Trevor Pinnock, Marc Soustrot, and Massimo Zanetti., among others.

In addition to her operatic and concert activities, Miss Pasichnyk is in demand as recitalist. She has performed extensively throughout Europe with pianist Natalya Pasichnyk. The duo have recorded the complete songs of Mozart and Lieder of Mendelssohn and Dvorak for Pro Musica Camerata, Ukrainian Songs for Opus 111, and their forthcoming release of Sibelius Songs for Pro Musica Camerata.

Miss Pasichnyk has been twice awarded the Fryderyk Prize in Poland for the best solo recordings of 1997 and 2004 for her recordings of Szymanowski and Lutoslawski, the 1999 Orfeusz Prize awarded at the Warsaw Autumn Contemporary Music Festival, the Golden Cross of Merit of Poland in 2001, and the A. Hiolski’s prize for the best female operatic performance of 2004 for her perforrmances as Mélisande in Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande at the Polish National Opera in Warsaw. She has an impressive discography of more than 40 commercial recordings, spanning the history of western music in various genres from Monteverdi to Mozart to Chopin to Lutoslawski on Naxos, Universal, Opus 111, Pro Musica Camerata, CD-Accord, MCD, Musicon, and Dabringhaus und Grimm. Her forthcoming recording as Donna Anna in Don Giovanni with Rene Jacobs will be released by Harmonia Mundi in spring 2007.

Olga Pasichnyk was born in the Ukraine. She studied piano and musical pedagogy in her native Rivne, voice at the Kiev Conservatory and at the Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw She began her professional career in 1992 while still a student, as a soloist of the Warsaw Chamber Opera and went on to become a prizewinner of the International Vocal Competition in s’Hertogenbosch, Holland (1994), Mirjam Helin International Singing Competition in Helsinki (1999) and The Queen Elisabeth International Competition (2000), where in addition to 3rd Prize, she was awarded both the Special Oratorio Prize and Prize of the Public.

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