Maria Nikitin
Pianist / coach
Maria Nikitin
In recent years, Nikitin has been working as a coach and rehearsal pianist in Opera Royal de Wallonie in Belgium, Conservatorio S. Cecilia in Rome, Wroclaw Opera Theatre in Poland , as an invited pianist at the Israeli Opera in Tel‐Aviv, at the Teatro Municipal de Santiago de Chile, as well as during the last 10 years she became a permanent collaborative pianist at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro (Italy) and Haifa Symphony Orchestra in Israel.
Maria Nikitin was born in Minsk, Belarus. She began to take piano lessons at the age of 6. After graduation from the Belarusian State Academy of Music she moved to Israel, continued her studies at the Academy of Music (Tel‐Aviv University) and completed her musical education at the Conservatorio di Musica Santa Cecilia in Roma as a Master of Opera Korrepetition.
In 2007 Maria began working at the Opera Studio of Israeli Opera, accompanying soloists in their concert tours, worked on opera projects and productions. Maria performed on radio and television, which included recording of Humperdinck’s opera Hansel and Gretel for the Israeli Arts channel, as a part of an Opera Studio project.
In 2009, to further her professional development, she had her internship at the Mirella Freni Belcanto Academy in Modena, Italy. A year later she was invited to work for the Accademia Internazionale di Canto ”Renata Tebaldi—Mario del Monaco” in Pesaro. This period marks the beginning of her career in the birthplace of opera.
To this day, Maria’s work in various opera productions has brought her into collaboration with many outstanding artists, including such world‐famous directors as Pier Luigi Pizzi, Giancarlo del Monaco, Graham Vick, Mario Martone, David Livermore and conductors Alberto Zedda, Donato Renzetti, Michele Mariotti, Daniele Callegari, Jader Begnamini, Patrick Davin, Enrique Mazzola, Francesco Lanzilotta, Dmitri Jurowski; as well as many renowned soloists, including Liudmyla Monastyrska, Juan Diego Florez, Olga Peretyatko, Celso Albelo, Dmitriy Korchak, Pietro Spagnioli, Maxim Mironov, Ildebrando D’Arcangelo and many others . She worked as a pianist in various master classes, including those taught by director Marco Gandini and conductors Dan Ettinger , Asher Fish and David Stern.
For several years she also collaborated with the International Vocal Arts Institute ( IVAI) in Israel, working in the summer program for young singers from around the world. Maria provided accompaniment for singers at the musical competitions Aviv (Israel), Vinas (Spain) and Villa in Canto (Italy).
She won the first absolute prize at the international musical competition Città di Fasano in the chamber vocal music category and the first prize at the international musical competition Città di Pesaro in the same category.
Maria Nikitin was born in Minsk, Belarus. She began to take piano lessons at the age of 6. After graduation from the Belarusian State Academy of Music she moved to Israel, continued her studies at the Academy of Music (Tel‐Aviv University) and completed her musical education at the Conservatorio di Musica Santa Cecilia in Roma as a Master of Opera Korrepetition.
In 2007 Maria began working at the Opera Studio of Israeli Opera, accompanying soloists in their concert tours, worked on opera projects and productions. Maria performed on radio and television, which included recording of Humperdinck’s opera Hansel and Gretel for the Israeli Arts channel, as a part of an Opera Studio project.
In 2009, to further her professional development, she had her internship at the Mirella Freni Belcanto Academy in Modena, Italy. A year later she was invited to work for the Accademia Internazionale di Canto ”Renata Tebaldi—Mario del Monaco” in Pesaro. This period marks the beginning of her career in the birthplace of opera.
To this day, Maria’s work in various opera productions has brought her into collaboration with many outstanding artists, including such world‐famous directors as Pier Luigi Pizzi, Giancarlo del Monaco, Graham Vick, Mario Martone, David Livermore and conductors Alberto Zedda, Donato Renzetti, Michele Mariotti, Daniele Callegari, Jader Begnamini, Patrick Davin, Enrique Mazzola, Francesco Lanzilotta, Dmitri Jurowski; as well as many renowned soloists, including Liudmyla Monastyrska, Juan Diego Florez, Olga Peretyatko, Celso Albelo, Dmitriy Korchak, Pietro Spagnioli, Maxim Mironov, Ildebrando D’Arcangelo and many others . She worked as a pianist in various master classes, including those taught by director Marco Gandini and conductors Dan Ettinger , Asher Fish and David Stern.
For several years she also collaborated with the International Vocal Arts Institute ( IVAI) in Israel, working in the summer program for young singers from around the world. Maria provided accompaniment for singers at the musical competitions Aviv (Israel), Vinas (Spain) and Villa in Canto (Italy).
She won the first absolute prize at the international musical competition Città di Fasano in the chamber vocal music category and the first prize at the international musical competition Città di Pesaro in the same category.
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