Supported by Alison and Malcom Thwaites, Lisa Newick and donors to our Sustaining Success Appeal
Armenian soprano Hasmik Harutyunyan is one of the first recipients of The Opera Europa Eva Kleinitz Scholarship 2022. She is currently a Young Artist at the National Opera Studio and a grateful recipient of the Opera Awards Foundation Bursary.
Her recent engagements include Female Chorus (The Rape of Lucretia), Sister Lillianne in the UK staged premiere of Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking (Alexander Gibson Opera School), and opera scenes at Welsh International Academy of Voice (WIAV) including scenes Rosalinde (Die Fledermaus), Mimi (La bohème).
She has studied roles including Mimì (La bohème), Tatyana (Eugene Onegin), Madame Lidoine (Dialogues des Carmélites) and Micaëla (Carmen). Hasmik was awarded 2nd Prize at The Gyumry Renaissance International Competition, 3rd Prize at the Tatevik Sazandaryan & Pavel Lisitsian Singing Competition, and the Young Singer’s Prize at the Delphic Games International Competition, Armenia. She also held the "Barekamutyun" Scholarship for Excellence at the Yerevan State Conservatory.
Hasmik is a graduate of the Alexander Gibson Opera School at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland where she studied under the tutelage of Clare Shearer. She then furthered her training with Dennis O’Neill and Ryland Davies at WIAV.
Her musical journey started as a violinist at the age of 6 followed by vocal studies at the Tchaikovsky Specialist Music School and at the Yerevan State Conservatory in Armenia
Updated January 2023. This biography should not be reproduced without asking permission from the National Opera Studio.