Born in Novosibirsk, Iveta Simonyan graduated from the Rimsky-Korsakov St Petersburg State Conservatory where she studied in the class of Professor Olga Kondina. She has refined her skills in master classes with renowned musicians, including Teodor Currentzis, Jennifer Larmore, Dmitry Vdovin, and Tamara Novichenko.

She is a laureate and prize winner of numerous vocal competitions. Notable awards include the diploma at the New Opera World International Opera Competition (Moscow, 2020), the special prize of the Chairman of the jury at the Opera Bella Competition (Moscow, 2021), the Second Prize at the Leonid Sobinov Vocal Competition within the Leonid Sobinov Music Festival (Saratov, 2022), and the award at the All-Russian Vocalists Competition (St. Petersburg, 2024).

Iveta Simonyan made her professional debut in 2023 as the Queen of the Night in Mozart’s The Magic Flute on the stage of the St Petersburg Music Hall Theatre. From 2023 to 2025, she was a soloist of the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre and took part in the First Far Eastern Easter Festival. Her repertoire at that stage included the parts of the Queen of the Night (Mozart’s The Magic Flute), Gilda (Verdi’s Rigoletto), Voices from Heaven (Verdi’s Don Carlos), Frasquita (Bizet’s Carmen), Norina (Donizetti’s Don Pasquale), Marfa (Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Tsar’s Bride), Ninetta (Prokofiev’s The Love for Three Oranges), and Brigitte (Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta).

In the 2025/26 season, Iveta Simonyan became an artist-mentee at the Anton Rubinstein Academy. At the Academy, she made her debut in the Händel. A Dedication Ceremony project, presented in St Petersburg (Dom Radio), Moscow (Zaryadye Concert Hall), Thessaloniki, Madrid (Auditorio Nacional de Música), Valencia (Palacio de la Música) and Barcelona (Palau de la Música Catalana).