Estonian singers introducing concert series Vocalissimo starts its third season presenting seven highly acclaimed Estonian vocalists. The first soloist of this season is Monika-Evelin Liiv, who performs with pianist Ralf Taal on September 12 at 6 pm in Tallinn Town Hall. The program consists of music by Manuel de Falla, Richard Strauss and Sergei Rachmaninov.
Monika-Evelin Liiv graduated from Georg Ots Tallinn Music School (2001) and Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre (2007). In addition, she has attended courses at the Lithuanian Academy of Music, the Mariinsky Theatre Young Singers Summer Academy in Mikkeli and and master classes with Irina Gavrilovic, Maria Acda, Larissa Gergieva, Hartmut Höll, Maria Cleva, Vladimir Atlantov and Jeffrey Goldberg. She won third prize in the Mart Saar Song Competition in 2002 and second prize in the Studio Bel Canto Vocal Competition in Malmö in 2006. From 2003 to 2007 Monika-Evelin Liiv sang in Finnish National Opera Chorus. Since 2005 Dmitri Pavlov has been her main performing partner and they have given concerts in Estonia, Finland, France, Lithuania, Sweden and Russia. Monika-Evelin Liiv joined the Jette Parker Young Artists Program in September 2007 and made her Royal Opera debut as Flora in La traviata by Giuseppe Verdi, followed by role of Ines in Verdi’s Il trovatore, Maddalena in Verdi’s Rigoletto, Second Lady in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte and Lady Artist in Alban Berg’s Lulu.
Aveli Kadastik