Fotina Naumenko

About Fotina

Fotina Naumenko, soprano, has been praised for her “radiant voice” (Boston Globe), described as both “angelic” (MusicWeb International) and “capable of spectacular virtuosic hi-jinks” (Boston Musical Intelligencer). Naumenko's performance career encompasses a wide variety of vocal genres including oratorio, opera, art song, choral, and contemporary music, both as a soloist and chamber musician. Festival appearances have included Ravinia, Constella, Olavfestdagene, and Tanglewood; her performances of David Lang’s just and Castiglioni’s Cantus Planus at the Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music were hailed as “a beautiful performance” by the New York Times and “a stunner” by the Boston Globe. Ensemble credits include Grammy® award-winning Conspirare, Grammy® award-winning Experiential Chorus, Grammy® nominated groups Skylark, Clarion, the Saint Tikhon Choir, and PaTRAM, as well as Cappella Romana, Coro Volante, Alium Spiritum, The Thirteen, and the Cincinnati Vocal Arts Ensemble, among others. Naumenko has recorded with these groups on the Reference Recordings, Chandos, Delos, Ablaze Records, Naxos, and Cincinnati Fanfare labels. She is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music, the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, and the Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory of St. Petersburg, Russia, where she completed a Fulbright grant specializing in Russian diction and vocal repertoire. Naumenko serves as Associate Professor on the voice faculty of Shenandoah Conservatory in Winchester, Virginia.

Singing brings me so much joy, and it is my honor and privilege to foster this same passion in my students by mentoring them in their technical and artistic development.