Alinka Kozári soprano

Born in Kaposvár, Hungary. she studied Singing, Teaching and Singing Methodology at the Ferenc Liszt Music Academy in Budapest with Professor Magda Nádor, DLA. Alinka got her diploma after a five-year course with a Distinction in 2005 before joining the Birmingham Conservatoire for the 2005/2006 school-year on the Weingarten Scholarship. She currently studies singing with Lillian Watson.

Her operatic experience includes Norina Don Pasquale, the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor, Queen of the Night Die Zauberflöte and Konstanze Die Entführung aus dem Serail. She recently performed Princess Caraboo in Malcolm Williamson’s English Eccentrics in the Crescent Theatre, Birmingham. In September 2006 she sang the role of Donna Anna in the British Youth Opera production Don Giovanni in the Peacock Theatre, London.

She is the winner of the 2006 Mario Lanza Opera Prize, the St. Clare Barfield Memorial Bowl for Operatic Distinction 2006 and an award from the Simon Fletcher Charitable Trust 2006.

Future engagements include a masterclass with José Cura in April 2007 in London, a summer course at the George Solti Accademia di Bel Canto in Italy working with Leo Nucci and she has won a place to study with Sir Thomas Allen on a Samling Foundation Masterclass in November 2007.

Alinka’s studies at the National Opera Studio are kindly supported by British American Tobacco, Friends of Covent Garden, Serena Fenwick, Alan Beurrier, the Joseph Weingarten Memorial Trust and the Simon Fletcher Charitable Trust. She has also just been awarded the Hungarian State Eötvös Scholarship.