Marianna Laba (born 7 September 1968, Sribni Prudy) is a Ukrainian singer, Honoured Artist of Ukraine, soloist of the Lviv Regional Philharmonic and the House of Organ and Chamber Music.
Biography.
Marianna was born into a family of professional musicians. Marianna's father, originally from the Chernivtsi region, was the director of a music school in Sribni Prudy, Moscow region. Her mother, of Hungarian descent, sang in a choir directed by her father[source?] In the following years, the family moved back to Ukraine, to the city of Khust, Zakarpattia region[source?]
At the age of 4, Marianna started playing music, learning to play the violin and piano.
In 1983-1987, she studied at the Uzhhorod Music School, majoring in violin. After graduating with honours, she received the qualification of an orchestra artist and music teacher (violin).
From 1987 to 1995, she studied at the Mykola Lysenko Lviv State Conservatory, majoring in opera and chamber singing (teachers - Honoured Artist Hanna Dashak and Honoured Artist Zinaida Maksymenko).
Since 1996, she has been a soloist of the Lviv Regional Philharmonic, and since 2002, she has also been a soloist of the Lviv House of Organ and Chamber Music (Organ Hall).
She lives and works in Lviv and has a son, Christian.
Musical career
While studying, as a soloist of the Krynytsia and Excelsior ensembles, she toured Austria, Germany, and Canada. As a student of the Conservatory, she took part in the Das Treffen Festival (Bayreuth 1992-1994), and in 1998 she participated in concerts at the Kammern Oper Göttingen, Germany.
In 2000, she toured Italy with the Solomiya Krushelnytska Lviv National Opera and Ballet Theatre.
She has represented Ukraine at numerous festivals in Poland (Tarnów, Mykolaiv, Przemyśl, Leżajsk, Staryi Sącz, Rzeszów, Zielona Góra, Czestochowa, Busk-Zdrój, Warsaw, Kraków, Sandomierz, Wrocław, Kielce, Warka, Radom), as well as at international festivals and forums in the following countries: Austria, Germany, Canada, Czech Republic, Hungary, France, Portugal, Belarus.
In 2006, she toured Europe with the K&K Philharmoniker Symphony Orchestra with the Gala-Strauss programme in Poland, Monaco, Switzerland, France, Spain, Portugal, Denmark, Norway, Germany, and in 2008-2009, she toured Spain with the Lviv Philharmonic Academic Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Aidar Toribayev with the same Gala-Strauss programme.
He has performed numerous programmes accompanied by the organ: Antonio Vivaldi, Johann Bach, George Handel, Baroque music (Alessandro Scarlatti, Domenico Scarlatti, Giovanni Paisiello, Giovanni Pergolesi, A. Stradella, Domenico Cimarosa, F. Tosti and others).
She has worked with such conductors as Matthias Kendlinger (Austria), Dieter Wagner (Germany), Jerzy Kosek and Wojtek Mrozek (Poland), Yuriy Lutsiv, Serhiy Burko, Volodymyr Syvokhyp, Hennadiy Fiskov, Roman Filipchuk, Myron Yusypovych, Aidar Toribayev (Ukraine), and Gungard Mattes (Switzerland).
She has collaborated with chamber choirs: "Gloria, Yevshan, the folk group Gomin Karpat, the Dudaryk Choir, the Mukachevo Boys Choir, the Academy Chamber Orchestra, and the Rivne Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra.
Marianna is also a soloist of the Lviv Minstrelsy ancient music ensemble.
She has participated in the recording of CDs: "Music for All" with the Academic Chamber Orchestra "Lviv Virtuosos", "Lviv Mozart", "Music of Habsburg Lviv", "Sunny Irises" (author's album by Y. Muzyka), and participated in numerous TV programmes. She took part in the Ukrainian-Polish project under the patronage of the President of the Republic of Poland in the production of M. Soltys's oratorio "Oaths of Jan-Kazimir".
She represented Ukraine as an artist at the embassies of Canada and Belarus.
She is an active participant in national celebrations in Budapest (Hungary).
She speaks 7 languages and translates vocal parts of classical works from foreign languages into Ukrainian.
