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Nikolay Verevkin
Nikolay Verevkin, born in Chisinau, Moldova, has studied
music since age 3. His first concert appearances were
made as a boy-soprano, frequently participating in solo and
choir performances both in Russia and Europe. He earned
bachelor’s and master’s degrees in piano performance and
chamber music at Saint Petersburg State Conservatory in
Russia and has performed recitals and tours as a pianist,
singer, and organist both in Europe and his homeland. After
moving to the United States, Nikolay earned a DMA and an
Artist Diploma in solo piano and chamber music from Ball State University,
where he studied with Robert Palmer and served as an accompanist and coach
for the opera program and musical theater productions. Currently Nikolay
serves as a postdoctoral scholar and visiting assistant professor in voice at
Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music. Before joining the faculty at
Indiana University, Nikolay worked there as a freelance coach and accompanist
for vocal and instrumental students and was a rehearsal and performance
pianist for Carol Vaness’s opera workshop productions. At Toronto Summer
Music Academy’s Art of Song Program, he studied with Thomas Allen, Gerald
Finley, Steven Philcox, Craig Rutenberg, and Sanford Sylvan. Nikolay is also an
alumnus of Music Academy of the West, where he worked with Marilyn Horne,
Warren Jones, John Churchwell, and Carrie-Ann Matheson. His recent concert
engagements include recitals with countertenor Andrey Nemzer in Pittsburgh
and Bloomington.
RSMI
SINGERS FELLOWS
Noa Beinart, contralto
Bettie Port Memorial Fellowship
from the Port, Washlow, and
Errant families
Noa Beinart, Contralto was
born in Israel. Her first musical
encounters began at the age of
seven, singing in the Bat-Kol choir in Tel Aviv and
studying piano. She began her professional studies in
2013 at the Hanns Eisler Conservatory of Music in
Berlin, there she studied with Prof. Annelise Fried,
Prof. Wolfram Rieger and KS Julia Varady. At the
conservatory she preformed roles such as Lisetta (Il
Mondo della Luna), Amastre (Serse), Olga (Eugene
Onegin) and Annina (Rosenkavalier). As of October
2017 she is studying her Masters of Music with
Prof. Christine Schäfer. Noa has participated in
masterclasses with Brigitte Fassbänder, Malcolm
Martinaeu, Patricia Mc’Caffrey and John Norris
among others, and was the recipient of scholarships
from the Israel America Culture Foundation from
2008 to 2012. She recently won the Trude Eiperle
Rieger prize for young singers in cooperation
with the Hugo Wolf Akademie Stuttgart. Besides
opera, she also performs concert music regularly,
including performances of J.S. Bach Cantatas BWV
127 and 175 in the Pauluskirche Zehlendorf in
Berlin with Cornelius Hausermann and BWV 89
in the Sophienkirche Berlin conducted by Raphael
Alpermann. In March and October 2017 she was
to be heard as Teufelin/Magd in the world premiere
of Siegfried Matthus’s “Luthers Träume” with the
Brandenburgischen Staatsorchester Frankfurt/Oder.
As of the 2018/19 season Noa is a participant of the
young artist program at the Bayrische Staatsoper in
Munich. There she will perform roles such as Martha
(Iolanta), Mother (Mavra), Annina (La Traviata), and
Wowkle (La Fancuilla del West) among others.
Olivia Boen, soprano
Ravinia Women’s Board Program
for Singers Fellowship*
Praised for her “full-
bodied, sparkling tone” by
C l e v e l a n d C l a s s i c a l . c o m ,
Chicago-born soprano Olivia
Boen completed her undergraduate studies at the
Oberlin Conservatory of Music in May of 2017
and will begin her Master of Music as a Guildhall
Scholar at the Guildhall School of Music and
Drama in London this autumn. Her studies are
generously supported through a grant from the
Frank Huntington Beebe Fund for Musicians. Olivia
was seen on the Oberlin Opera Theater stage as the
title roles in Poulenc’s Les Mamelles de Tirésias
and Händel’s Alcina, as well as the leading ladies
in Donizetti’s Don Pasquale, Puccini’s Gianni
Schicchi , and Händel’s Serse with the Oberlin-in-
Italy program in Tuscany. In January 2016, she had
the distinct honor of performing the North American
premiere of Jesse Jones’ One Bright Morning with
the Contemporary Music Ensemble on Oberlin’s
150th Anniversary Tour to her home city. The piece
will be released on the Oberlin Music record label
in late 2018. Olivia has participated in masterclasses
with such renowned artists as Renée Fleming,
Eric Owens, and Marilyn Horne. Recent accolades
include 2018 First Place Winner at the Musicians
Club of Women of Chicago, 2017 First Place
Winner at the Tuesday Musical Competition, and
finalist in Oberlin’s Senior Concerto Competition.
Caroline Bourg, apprentice
soprano
Caroline Bourg, soprano, is a
native of Chicago, Illinois. She
is currently entering her third
year of undergraduate studies
at Boston University (BU),
studying under the tutelage of Dr. Lynn Eustis.
Caroline began her musical studies by learning
the violin at age three, and later beginning vocal
studies with Michelle Areyzaga. Last summer,
Caroline was a Studio Artist at the SongFest
summer institute in Los Angeles, California. There
she participated in master classes with artists such
as Alan Smith, Sanford Sylvan, and Mark Trawka.
She has also received coachings with artists Javier
Arrebola and John Musto, among others. In the
Opera Project at BU, Caroline has sung roles
in scenes, including Ilia in Idomeneo (Mozart),
Giuna in Lucio Silla (Mozart), Euridice in Orphées
aux enfers (Offenbach), and Edwige in Robinson
Crusoe (Offenbach).
Evan Bravos, baritone
Fanny R. Simmonds Memorial
Fellowship* from Mr. and Mrs.
Murray J. Vale and from Mr.
and Mrs. Edwin E. Hokin, Dan
Saslow Fellowship* from Fay
Saslow Stern, James Sassower
Memorial Fellowship* from Mr. and Mrs. Joram
Sassower
Evan Bravos, baritone, has been praised by the
Chicago Tribune for his “strong singing and acting”
and marked as “a young talent to watch”. He returns
this fall to Virginia Opera to sing the roles of Mr.
Jones in Kurt Weill’s Street Scene and Masetto
in Mozart’s Don Giovanni. This season at Opera
Theatre of Saint Louis he created the roles of Pvt.
Johnson and Sgt. Brown in the world premier of
Huang Rao’s An American Soldier and performed
the role of John Bagtry in Regina alongside Susan
Graham. Previously at Saint Louis, he covered
the role of Tom Joad in Ricky Ian Gordon’s The
Grapes of Wrath. Other credits include: Opera
Santa Barbara, Central City Opera, Aspen Music
Festival, and Lyric Opera of Chicago’s Unlimited
series. Mr. Bravos has appeared as a soloist with
the Madison Symphony and in 2016, joined the
Colorado Symphony Chorus as soloist on Faure
Requiem in Paris, Strasbourg and Munich. Concert
works include Macmillan St. John Passion, Orff
Carmina Burana, Brahms Requiem , and Vaughan
Williams Five Mystical Songs. An avid recitalist,
Mr. Bravos was recently featured on two music
festivals in Greece. In 2018, he co-produced and
performed in a production of The Fine Things of
Youth: Willa Cather’s Lucy Gayheart in Words
and Music with pianist Shannon McGinnis and the
Collaborative Arts Institute of Chicago. Awards
include Pasadena Opera Guild, Central City Opera,
and the Metropolitan National Council Auditions.
He holds degrees from Lawrence University
Conservatory and Northwestern University’s
Bienen School of Music.
Tracy Cantin, soprano
Lois M. Steans Fellowship from
the Morrison Family Foundation
Canadian soprano Tracy Cantin
is a recent graduate of the
prestigious Ryan Opera Center
at Lyric Opera of Chicago. She
is a 2014 Sullivan Foundation Award recipient,
and was a 2016 National SemiFinalist of the
Metropolitan National Council Competition. Her
repertoire includes Donna Anna/Don Giovanni ,
Mimì/ La bohème, Governess/Britten’s Turn of the
Screw, Alice Ford/ Falstaff, Desdemona/ Otello,
Amelia/Simon Boccanegra , Eva/Die Meistersinger
von Nurnberg, Rosalinde/Die Fledermaus, as well