Yuri Gorodetski & Tatiana Loisha
Biography Yuri Gorodetski & Tatiana Loisha
Yuri Gorodetski
was born in Mogilev, Belarus. After graduating from the Belarusian State Academy of Music in 2007(with Viktor I. Scorobogatov), he studied with Raina Kabaivanska at the Vecchi Tonelli Institute in Modena and at the Chapelle Musical Reine Elisabeth in Belgium with José van Dam. Currently,Yuri is a member of the Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist Program inWashington, DC. Awards include 5th prize at the 2008 Queen Elisabeth International Vocal Competition in Brussels; 1st prize at the 2010 Stanislaw Moniuszko International Singing Competition in Warsaw and the ATMA Classique prize at the 2012 Montreal International Music Competition. At Belarusian National Opera, Yuri has performed repertoire including Count Almaviva (Il barbiere de Siviglia), Alfredo (La traviata), Vladimir Igorevich (Prince Igor) and Lensky (Eugene Onegin). In 2012 Yuri debuted at the Bolshoi Theatre of Russia as Tamino (Die Zauberflöte) and withWashington National Opera as Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni). Future plans include Jaquino (Fidelio) in Liège and Così fan tutte in Bolshoi in Moscow.
Tatiana Loisha
started her musical education in Vitebsk, Belarus. In 2005, she graduated from the Belarusian State Academy of Music in Minsk, where she majored in piano and then studied accompanying with Prof. Anna Korzhenevskaya. She began to specialize as piano accompanist in 2005 and has won several contests for singers and piano duets: International competition in Vilnius, Lithuania, 2006; ‘Three centuries of classical romances’ in St. Petersburg, Russia, 2006; International competition in Kazan, Russia, 2007. Tatiana is currently an accompanist of the Academic Choir of the National Radio and Television Company (Minsk, Belarus). She has been performing in numerous concerts, recitals of vocal music both in Belarus and in Belgium, Russia and Poland. Tatiana is also a teacher of piano accompaniment at the Belarusian State Academy of Music. Since 2008 Tatiana also works in a musical union “Belarusian Capella”, which endeavors to revive the Belarusian music heritage of academic genres among the contemporary performing arts.
