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Born in Ukraine, Olga Pasichnyk (Pasiecznik) studied piano and musical pedagogy in her native Rivne, and singing at the Kiev Conservatory and the Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw. In 1992 she became a soloist of the Warsaw Chamber Opera. She has sung major rôles in operas from Monteverdi to Tchaikovsky and contemporary composers in most countries of Europe, Australia, Canada, Japan, and the United States, and appeared in numerous concerts and international music festivals, collaborating with distinguished conductors and orchestras. She has won awards in a number of important international competitions and has twice been awarded the Fryderyk, the highest Polish recording award, for the best solo recordings in 1997 and 2004 (Szymanowski and Lutosławski), the Orfeusz (Warsaw Autumn Festival prize) in 1999, the Golden Cross of Merit of Poland (2001) and A. Hiolski’s prize for the best female opera rôle of 2004 (Mélisande in Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande with the Polish National Opera).