Yana Ivanilova was born in Moscow. She received her Master's level degree in voice at the Gnesin Academy as a pupil of Valentina Levko, and her doctorate at the Moscow Conservatory under Nina Dorliak-Richter. She also studied with Ingeborg Wamser in Vienna and with Marie Daveluy in Montreal, and performance practice with the conductor and vocal coach Peter Berne in Austria. In 1998 she took the second prize at Schneider-Trnavsky International Vocal Competition. She has appeared in world premières of two operas, Baltazaro Galuppi's Re pastore in Italy and Sarti's Eneo nel Lazio in Russia. She performed major rôles as a soloist with the Moscow Municipal Theatre "New Opera". In addition to her career as an opera singer, she is an avid concert and recital artist. She has given performances at such venues as Victoria Hall in Geneva and Westminster Cathedral in London, and toured with leading companies throughout Europe. She has sung under such conductors as Kent Nagano, Evgeni Svetlanov, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Mikhail Pletnev, Richard Bonynge, Stuart Bedford, Alexander Vedernikov, René Clemencic, Pavel Kogan, Vladimir Spivakov, Sergei Stadler, and Alexander Rudin. She has made numerous recordings of solo programmes for radio stations as well as commercial recordings, including Silvestrov's Stufen with the pianist Alexei Lubimov, and Music at the Court of St Petersburg with the Orpharion Ensemble.

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