Julia Antonovitch | © Christian Schneider
Faculty

Julia Antonovitch

Vertragslehrerin for musical rehearsalDepartment Opera & Musical Theatre
Russian pianist Julia Antonovitch studied concert piano at the N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov State Academy of Music in St. Petersburg with Nathan Perelman, followed by studies at the Mozarteum University with Imre Rohmann and further artistic training at the International Bartók Seminar in Szombathely in the master classes of Zoltán Kocsis and Imre Rohmann.

She accompanied masterclasses by Marjana Lipovšek and Alfred Burgstaller and was an official accompanist at the International Mozart Competition. She has also performed in numerous productions at the Salzburg State Theatre, the Chiemgau Opera Summer and the Laubach Opera Workshop. In 2007, she was engaged for the production of ‘Eugen Onegin’ (Barenboim/Breth) at the Salzburg Festival. This was followed by an invitation from Maestro Daniel Barenboim to the Berlin State Opera, where she worked as a solo repetiteur for Russian repertoire from 2007 to 2020. She took part in the new productions of ‘Der Spieler’ (Barenboim/Tcherniakov), ‘Eugen Onegin’ (Barenboim/Freyer) and ‘Die Zarenbraut’ (Barenboim/Tcherniakov) and worked with many important singers, including René Pape, Rolando Villazón, Johannes Martin Kränzle, Anatoli Kotscherga, Kwangchul Youn, Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Olga Peretyatko, Kristīne Opolais, Anna Samuil, Aida Garufullina, Violeta Urmana, among others.

She has worked in the Opera and Music Theatre Department at the Mozarteum University since 1993.