Svetlana Savenko

Svetlana Savenko (b. 1946) is a Russian classical singer (soprano), musicologist and critic, professor at the Moscow Conservatory and senior researcher at the State Institute for Art Studies. She was born in Moscow and studied at the Moscow Conservatory, graduating cum laude in 1969 and receiving a PhD degree in 1972. Savenko worked with Igor Stravinsky archives as a Paul Sacher Stiftung scholar in 1992. As a soloist of the Studio For New Music Ensemble, Svetlana Savenko gave concerts at the Rachmaninov Hall and Small Hall Of The Moscow Conservatoire, Berliner Philharmonie, Wiener Konzerthaus and other prestigious venues. She had been touring in Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Slovakia, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland, Britain, Israel, and USA. Since 1997, Svetlana Savenko is collaborating extensively with a pianist Yuri Polubelov. Their repertoire includes over 350 works for voice and piano by classical and contemporary composers. She also performed with Alexei Lubimov and Sergei Zagny. Her repertoire includes works by Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, Anton Webern (complete songs for voice and piano), Béla Bartók, John Cage, Hanns Eisler, Paul Hindemith, Ernst Krenek, Alexander Von Zemlinsky, Igor Stravinsky, Sergei Prokofiev, as well as Nikolai Roslavetz, Alexander Mossolov and other early Russian avant-garde composers. She also performs music by Valentin Silvestrov, Edison Denisov, Galina Ustvolskaya, Alexander Knaifel, and Vladimir Martynov. Some works had been written personally for Svetlana Savenko, for instance Tchevengour by Vladimir Tarnopolski.