Conductor
Graduating with honors from the V. Zaremba Music College in Khmelnytskyi (Ukraine), Anastasiia completed her studies in Choral Conducting and Music Theory. She furthered her education with a degree in Choral Conducting at the A. Nezhdanova Odesa National Music Academy in Ukraine and pursued Opera and Symphony Conducting studies at the K. Penderecki Academy of Music in Krakow under the mentorship of Maestro Łukasz Borowicz.
She developed her conducting skills by participating in conducting courses led by renowned conductors such as Maestro Marin Alsop at Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra (Katowice), Prof. Rafał Jacek Delekta with the Beethoven Academy Orchestra (Krakow), and opera workshops at the Krakow Opera.
photo - Piotr Markowski
Her talent has been recognized with awards at international competitions and festivals, including a special award for preparing the best operatic production during the Musical-Theatrical Residency SkhidOPERA in Kharkiv (2020). She secured the first prize in the II International Choral Conductors' Competition "Viva la voce" in Luhansk, Ukraine, and the second prize in the XVII All-Ukrainian Competition of Young Choral Conductors in Nizhyn, Ukraine.
As an assistant conductor, she has contributed to the preparation of operas such as G.Rossini's "Moise" and "Zelmira" at the "Rossini in Wildbad" Opera Festival in Germany, and P. Tchaikovsky's "Iolanta" and S.Rachmaninov's "Aleko" at the Odesa Philharmonic in Ukraine.
photo - Oleksandr Shakhmatov
Starting from the 2020-2021 artistic season, Anastasiia has held the position of a guest conductor at the National Opera and Ballet Theatre in Kharkiv. In 2020, as a music director she prepared the premiere of G.Menotti's opera "The Medium".
In 2021, she founded the music-theatrical hub Operatorium, collaborating on a semi-staged version of G. Pergolesi's "La Serva Padrona," which premiered in Krakow and Wrocław. In 2022, she worked alongside the Operatorium Orchestra and LimaNovum Choir to prepare and conduct Karl Jenkins' "Requiem."
Anastasiia is also active in the symphonic and oratorio repertoire, having conducted concerts at renowned venues such as the Poznań Philharmonic, Zielona Góra Philharmonic, and Krakow Philharmonic. She has directed ensembles including the Beethoven Academy Orchestra, soloists and the Orchestra of the Krakow Opera, the chamber orchestra Duettissimo, the Górecki Chamber Choir, the Magna Grecia Orchestra (Matera, Italy), SkhidOPERA Ensemble (Kharkiv, Ukraine), Oriana Choir (Odessa, Ukraine), LimaNovum Choir, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra (Katowice, Poland), and Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège (Belgium).
photo - Antoni Hoffman
From 2018, she has been leading the Youth Symphony Orchestra at the K. Penderecki State Music School Complex in Dębica. Since 2022, she has also been conductor of the Youth Symphony Orchestra at the
I.J. Paderewski Music School Complex in Tarnów.
Anastasiia Vrublevska © 2023
Anastasiia Vrublevska