Olga Shanina and Rosemary Barnes.
An excellent concert programme will feature at St Georges Church In Thames this Sunday afternoon, 14 June. It will feature arias by Italian, German, French, and Russian composers. All arias and romances will be performed in their original languages.
Olga is a graduate of the N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov Saint Petersburg State Conservatory and built her career as a leading soloist of the Mikhailovsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg. She has toured in Germany, France, the Netherlands, Spain, Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Japan, and China. Olga now lives in New Zealand, where she is a soloist for festivals and concerts.
Olga works with distinguished accompanist pianist Rosemary Barnes.
Rosemary was awarded a New Zealand Arts Council bursary and studied piano at the Royal Academy of Music with Franz Reizenstein. She worked in London, England, for 28 years as an accompanist and vocal coach, music staff member at the English National Opera 1980-1988, and teaching at the Royal College of Music. In New Zealand, she has performed at NZ International Festival of the Arts, 1990; and was Director of the Dip Perf Arts (Opera) at the University of Auckland 1993-1999. Rosemary was awarded an MNZM, Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit – for her services to music in 2000.
Concert commences at 2.00pm. Tickets: $20/Adult, $15/TMG Member, Free entry/Under 18 yrs old. Contact: thamesmusicgroup@yahoo.co.nz
