Within KotorArt Don Branko’s days of music, on the platform that supports young Montenegrin artists who are educated abroad, last night in the crowded Church of St. Spirit, in the concert hall of the music school "Vida Matjan", young opera artist Tamara Radjenovic held a solo concert. In the repertoire, there were the arias of Vivaldi, Mozart, Donizetti, Bellini, and many others. Piano was performed by Djordje Nesic, who also performed two solo compositions: Nocturne in cis moll by Frederic Chopin, as well as The Suite Bergamasque by Claude Debussy. This is Tamara's first performance within the KotorArt Festival. For the encore, they performed the aria La Rosa y El Sauce by Guastavino.
Biography
Young Montenegrin opera artist and soprano Tamara Radjenovic lives and works in London. She graduated solo singing at the Royal College of Music in London in a class of 8 students. She is the first from the ex-YU territory that has been admitted to solo singing at this academy in a competition of 1000 applicants. She was also awarded a scholarship for master studies at the same academy, and from the English Ministry of Culture, she is the winner of the 'exceptional promising talent' status in the UK.
So far, Tamara has had the opportunity to perform at various national and international concerts, festivals, masterclasses in Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia, Austria, England, Germany, Romania, Italy, Spain, Mauritius, and America.
At the end of last year, she had a debut at the Carnegie Hall in New York, where she presented herself with a solo concert to the New York audience.
Due to the high interest, and at the invitation of Carnegie Hall, Tamara will repeat the solo concert in New York at the end of this year.
In addition to performing in America, this year will have solo concerts in England, Spain, Hong Kong, Montenegro, Serbia.
Tamara was very young when she had her opera debut. She had the role of Mimi in the opera “La bohème” by Puccini at the Mediterranean Opera Studio Festival in Sicily (Italy) with the conductor Leonardo Catalano (July 2017).
The beginning of her international career is associated with the famous opera star Madam Montserrat Caballé. The young artist was chosen personally by the diva to sing at her Gala concerts in Zaragoza, Spain (in 2014, 2015).In Barcelona, she actively worked with the opera legend until her last days of life, and she had a great deal of influence in building the young artist and her singing technique. Tamara recently performed in Barcelona at the theater 'De Sarria' with renowned Spanish conductor and pianist Ricardo Estrada and was presented to the Spanish audience as the last student of Montserrat Caballé.
Tamara actively cooperates with the Russian Cultural Center "Pushkin House" in London for which she held several concerts. Her performance at the Medtner Festival and the concert in honor of the Romanov family (in 2017, 2019) are to be highlighted.
In London, she performed at Britten Theater, Amarilis Fleming Hall, starring Anne in Merry Wives of Windsor, Countess in Le Nozze di Figaro, Romilda in Serse, Helene at Midsummer night's dream.
From the concerts in the region, there should be mentioned the solo concert in the City Hall of Novi Sad last year and the performance at Kolarac Foundation in Belgrade within the opera Gala concert "World in Opera, Opera in the World" in January this year (in 2018, 2019).
At the invitation of the Cultural Center "Nikola Djurkovic", Tamara also had a solo concert in the Church of the Holy Spirit in Kotor (in 2018). At the very beginning of solo singing, she performed with members of the Vienna Philharmonic orchestra within the Salzburg Festival at the Opera Project for Youth (in cooperation with the American-Austrian Foundation and the Vienna Philharmonic). She also performed with the Prussian Chamber Orchestra in Beskov, Germany with the conductor Franck Zaher. Her beginnings were also marked by seven first prizes at national and international competitions in Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia, as well as the Special Prize-Winner of the Festival- Laureate at the International Competition Bruna Spiler in Montenegro.
Text by CdM, on July 23rd, 2019, read more at CdM
