Vadym Shvydkyi (born 29 September 1975, Kyiv) is a Ukrainian opera and concert singer (bass).
Biography.
Vadym Shvydkyi was born on 29 September 1975 in Kyiv. He started singing as a child, and during his school years he sang in the Great Children's Choir of the State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company of Ukraine.
He is a cousin of violinist Marina Bondas.
He took his first professional steps under the guidance of Iryna Persanova and Volodymyr Terekhov. 1994-1998 studied at the National Music Academy of Ukraine, classes of People's Artist of the USSR, professor Mykola Kondratiuk (singing) and Zoya Lichtman (chamber singing). He was a soloist at the Opera Studio at the NMAU ("Young Opera") [Archived 19 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine] and the Jewish Chamber Theatre in Kyiv.
Since 1998 he has been living in Germany. Concert and opera performances on numerous opera and concert stages (in particular in Ukraine, Israel, Germany, Moldova, Russia). Participates in music and theatre festivals.
He is a member of the international players' union "What? Where? When?"
Repertoire
Opera roles
Mykola (Natalka-Poltavka by Mykola Lysenko)
Sultan / Imam (The Cossack Beyond the Danube by S. Hulak-Artemovsky)
Figaro / Count / Antonio (The Marriage of Figaro by W.-A. Mozart)
Tevye / Lazar-Wolfe (Anatevka or Fiddler on the Roof by J. Bock)
Gremin / Zaretsky / Rotny (Eugene Onegin by Tchaikovsky)
Dankairo (Carmen by G. Bizet)
Jim Boy (Hawaiian Flower by P. Abraham)
Aleko (Aleko by Sergei Rachmaninoff)
Baron Dufault (La Traviata by G. Verdi)
Solo parts in great cantata and oratorio works by J.S. Bach, Goebel (Jr.), Mozart, Brahms, Haydn, Mendelssohn, Hänzel, Bernstein, Zapolsky and S. Kolmanowski. The singer's concert repertoire includes a large number of chamber music works of the XVII-XXI centuries. Works by D. Zapolsky, I. Sokolov, and S. Kolmanovsky were written especially for him.
