Natalya Romaniw, Ariosa Singing Patron


Natalya with some of the Ariosa Singers
We congratulate Natalya on winning the GOLD MEDAL at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, 2011.
Natalya studied with Penny Ryan and achieved her ATCL diploma before moving to the GSMD for her music degree.
She is 21 years old and studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama under the guidance of John Llewelyn Evans. Natalya’s grandfather, originally from the Ukraine, settled in Wales during the Second World War. Natalya was born in Morriston, South Wales where she regularly appears as a guest soloist for Male voice choirs including the Morriston Orpheus, Pontarddulais and the Dunvant male voice. In 2006 she was a prizewinner in the Young Kathleen Ferrier Bursary award.
Her work in Wales includes performances in the Brangwyn Hall as guest soloist for the Morriston Orpheus Choir and at the Millennium stadium she regularly sings the anthem for Wales’ European football fixtures.
Operatic engagements have included Anne Truelove The Rake’s Progress at the Millennium Centre, Cardiff for WNYO. Her performance was described as ‘A performance of remarkable maturity’ and ‘utterly sympathetic’ by Glyn Purseglove.
Awards include first prize at the London Welsh ‘young singer of the year’ and more recently, first prize in the 2008 Welsh Singers Competition.
In 2009 she sang La Rondine with British Youth Opera, Rachmaninov Songs at the Barbican and Messiah in Fishguard. Natalya represented Wales in the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition in the summer of 2009.
Natalya is supported by the Joyce Newton Bequest, the Dorothy Willner and Harry Rolfe Scholarships and the City of London Corporation.
2012 - She has been accepted onto the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Natalya recently won the Guildhall School of Music and Drama Gold Medal. Previous recipients Bryn Terfel.
Natalya will be one of six young singers who become salaried company members and work at the Royal Opera House on a full-time basis from September 2012. The Programme runs for two years.