Katharina Melnikova from Belarus began her musical training as a violinist. In 2015 under the guidance of University Professor Mag. Joanna Borowska-Isser she completed her vocal studies at the Graz University of Music and Dramatic Arts with distinction.
During her studies she was presented by Kammersänger Michael Schade as a “young vocal talent” as part of the Talent Series AMABILE set up by Dr. Michael Nemeth, Director of the Musikverein Styria. Katharina Melnikova received also two scholarships to participate in the American Institute of Musical Studies programm in Graz, where she gave many concerts and took part in Master Classes held by Chantal Mathias, Gabriele Lechner and Michèle Crider.
Already during her studies she gave her debut at the Deutsche Oper Berlin as Despina and sang the title role in the comic opera “Die schöne Galathée” from Franz von Suppé in the Musikverein Styria. In the Coburg Summer Operetta Festival she made her debut in the operetta “Die Zirkusprinzessin” from Emmerich Kalman as Countess Fedora.
In 2014 Katharina Melnikova took part in the Rossini Academy of the Festival Aix-en Provence where she was chosen to be the “Lauréat HSBC de l’Académie du Festival d’Aix” which led to a Gala Concert with pieces from Rossini as part of the Festival of Aix-en-Provence.
Her subsequent engagements have included Adele in Die Fledermaus and Queen of
the Night in The Magic Flute at the Theater Baden bei Wien, Adele under Maestro Gianluigi Gelmetti and Queen of the Night under Pedro Haffner-Caro at the Teatro Verdi Trieste, Flower Girl under Philippe Jordan at the Opéra Bastille, Jadja in „Polnische Hochzeit“ and Lidochka in „Moskva, Tscherjomuschki“ at the Oper Graz, Gilda at the Wernigerode Castle Festival, Lucia in „Lucia di Lammermoor“, and La Fée in Massenet’s „Cendrillon“ at the Theater Freiburg under Fabrice Bollon.
The production of Massenet’s Cendrillon was recorded by NAXOS and is available on DVD. Additionally, her concert with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra under Joe Hisaishi at the Wiener Musikverein was recorded by Deutsche Grammophon and released on the platform STAGE+.
Her recent concert engagements include performances at the Musikverein Graz with the Graz Philharmonic Orchestra under Theodor Guschlbauer, with the Chamber Orchestra Con Fuoco under Svetoslav Borisov, and with the Bochum Symphony Orchestra, Saarländischer Rundfunk Orchestra under Oksana Lyniv, Warsaw Philharmonic, the International Robert Stolz Association in Belgium, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, as well as the concert tour The World of Hans Zimmer – A Symphonic Celebration, and concerts at the Wiener Musikverein with composers Joe Hisaishi and Patrick Doyle.
