Oleksandr Pushniak (1983) – baritone – Ukraine

Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Music Pedagogy and Music Teacher Ushynsky Pedagogical College, Kyiv. Graduated National Music Academy of Ukraine, specialty Musical Art and qualification opera and concert singer (2007). Joined Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist Program in Washington DC (2008-2010). Prizes: semi-finalist Plácido Domingo’s ‘Operalia’ competition (Paris, 2007). Prizewinner European song contest within Styriarte Music Festival, Austria. Repertory: title role Falstaff, Simone Gianni Schicchi (Verdi), Il conte di Almaviva Le nozze di Figaro (Mozart), arias Tannhäuser (Wagner), Don Carlo (Verdi), Prince Igor (Borodin).
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Final with piano – 25 Sep

Finch’an dal vino (Don Giovanni) – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756-1791
Don Juan’s Serenade – Pjotr Iljitsch Tsjaikovski 1840-1893
Parlami d’Amore Mariú – Cesare Bixio 1896 – 1978

Final with The Brabant Philharmonic Orchestra – 26 Sep

Io morro (Don Carlos) – Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
Ny sna ny otdyha (Prince Igor) – Aleksandr Borodin 1833 – 1887
Nebo bezzoriane (Bogdan Khmelnytsky) – Kostiantyn Dankevych 1905-1984