Iryna Krasnenko (1988)

| Ukraine

Soprano

Accompanist | Nijolė Baranauskaitė

Iryna Krasnenko was born on 19 January 1988 in Kropivnizky (Ukraine). While other people come up with unreal professions, she has known since childhood that she wanted to be a musician. In 2007 she graduated from Music College and since 2007 has been studying singing with Lydia Zabilasta at the Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine (master's degree). At the Opera studio of the Academy, Iryna has performed operatic parts as Tatiana in " Eugene Onegin" by Tchaikovsky, and Marfa in "The Tsar's Bride" by Rimsky-Korsakov. Since 2017 she has been studying the master's program in the class of Sabina Martinaitytė, singing department at the Music Academy (Vytautas Magnus University) Kaunas, Lithuania. She has participated in the productions of the opera A. Mozart “Le Nozze di Figaro” and sang such operatic parts as La Contessa and Lauretta in G.Puccini’s opera “Gianni Schicchi”. She has also studied the Erasmus program at Mozarteum University Salzburg, Austria. In 2017 Iryna took part in the International competition “Platinum Orfey” - Kyiv, Ukraine, and took 1st place. She has also participated in the 4th Minsk international Christmas singing competition, Minsk Belarus. In 2019 she became a finalist at the International Lyrical Art Competition of Namur and in July 2020 at the Aequo Concorso Internationale Lions di Canto Lirico, she took the Premio Bellini Ex. In 2022 Irina became a finalist in the TV Dutch opera competition “Aria”