Roza Tulyaganova, a native of Uzbekistan, is a graduate of Manhattan School of Music. She has sung Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi at Mississippi Opera, Rosalinda in Die Fledermaus in Las Vegas, and Musetta in La Boheme at Cantiamo Opera in New York, Rosina in Il Barbier di Siviglia at Brooklyn Opera, Micaela in Carmen at Brooklyn Conservatory; Livia in Cimarosa’s L’ Italiana in Londra and La Ciesca in Gianni Schicchi at Manhattan School of Music; and most recently the First Lady in Die Zauberflote at Intermezzo Festival in Florida.

Ms. Tulyaganova also appeared as a featured artist in concerts with Las Vegas Opera and Las Vegas Philharmonic. She is a first place winner of Texas Music Teachers Association, two time district winner of Metropolitan Opera Audition, district winner of the National Association of Teachers of Singing award, and a finalist of the Meistersinger competition in Graz, Austria.

Soprano Olga Shyp, a native of Odessa, Ukraine, graduated with a master's degree in music (opera and solo singing) from Odessa State Conservatory. Her extensive repertoire includes Despina, Cosi fan tutte; Adina, L'elesir d'amore; Norina, Don Pasquale; Violetta, Traviata; Silberklang, Der Schauspieldirektor; Lucie, The Telephone; Tonina, Primo la musica, poi le parole; Oksana, Zaporozhets beyond the Danube; La Chauve-Souris, L'enfant et les Sortileges; the title role in Rimsky-Korsakov's Snow Maiden.

Ms. Shyp has also committed herself to oratorio singing. Her concert repertoire includes Handel's Messiah, Brahms' Requiem, J.S. Bach's Magnificat, Johannes Passion and Matteus Passion. Ms. Shyp has performed in concert tours throughout United States, Germany, Italy and Ukraine and appeared in a number of recitals and ensemble concerts in her home region. Olga also has performed as a soloist with New York Choral Society, Synod Cathedral Choir, Buglisi/Foreman Dance Company, Cantiamo Opera, New Jersey Opera Theater and others.

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Karina Azatyan, native of Armenia, is a graduate of Manhattan School of Music and Jerusalem Rubin Academy. Karina is a vocal coach and an accompanist. She led the coaching for productions of Ravel’s L’Enfant et les Sortileges, Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro, Lehar’s The Merry Widow, Monteverdi’s L’ Incoronazione di Poppea and Mozart’s Die Zauberflote, Gounod’s Faust.

Ms. Azatyan has worked as vocal coach with Israel Vocal Arts Institute, Virginia Opera, New York Vocal Institute, Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, Brooklyn College and New Jersey Association of Verismo Opera and currently, designated vocal coach at New York University and Manhattan School of Music. She has worked with acclaimed musicians such as Warren Jones, Lyuba Kazarnovskaya of Kirov Theater, Vanessa Cariddi at Metropolitan Opera, Oksana Kravitskaya at Bolshoi Theater, Dmitry Zuckermann, and Darius Ocetek at Carnegie Hall.