Tamara Kotomenkova
In the choir since 2024
Tamara Kotomenkova graduated from the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory (Choral Conducting Department, the class of Professor Yuri Yevgrafov and People’s Artist of Russia Gennady Dmitryak).
She began her career in music as a pianist and became laureate of international and all-Russian competitions. From 2022 to 2023, she worked as an accompanist of a vocal workshop at the Russian Institute of Theatre Arts GITIS.
From 2021 to 2024, she was an artist of the Sveshnikov State Academic Russian Choir. Since 2023 she has been a soloist, conductor, and artistic director of the trio NOĒSIS: the debut of the ensemble took place at the festival Five Evenings in the Small Hall of Zaryadye. She is a soloist of the vocal direction CEAM VOICES headed by Nikolai Popov.
She has collaborated with such ensembles as the EXPERIMENTUM vocal ensemble, the Praktika vocal ensemble under the direction of Olga Vlasova, the Yurlov Russian State Academic Choir, as well as the vocal ensemble Russian Baroque conducted by Ioann Sevzikhanov.
As a singer, she participated in the interdisciplinary laboratory Context 2023 at the Stanislavsky Electrotheatre, at the Gorky + Festival as part of the show Twinkling. Legends of Danko, in the media performance Gorky. Remove from friends (Nizhny Novgorod, 2023), and the Educational Programme of the Diaghilev Festival 2024.
As a performer and conductor, she collaborated with contemporary composers including Nikolai Popov, Vladimir Gorlinsky, Alexey Sioumak, Pavel Polyakov, Yekaterina Khmelevskaya, Natalia Prokopenko, Anton Svetlichny, Lilia Iskhakova, Dmitry Mazurov, Elizaveta Loban, and Polina Krasovskaya.