Natalka Pasicznyk
Soprano
Natalka Pasicznyk is a First Class Music graduate of King’s College London, currently studying at the Royal College of Music under the tutelage of Mary Nelson. In the past, she has been mentored by renowned singers, such as Alex Oomens, Patricia Rozario, Ryland Davies and Nadine Sierra. She has also had masterclasses with renowned artists, Nicky Spence, Roger Vignoles, Dame Felicity Lott, Julius Drake, Brindley Sherratt, Roderick Williams, David Hill and Elly Ameling. Natalka is a Stanley Picker Award Holder, supported by the Pidem Scholarship and the Audrey Sacher Award as well as being kindly supported by the Josephine Baker Trust.
Past operatic roles include Susanna in Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro, the role of Adele in Strauss' Die Fledermaus and Spring and Mystery in Purcell’s Fairy Queen. She won the First Prize of the 2024 Dean and Chadlington Singing Competition and the Non-Contemporary Performance Prize in the 2025 Calliope's Call Art Song Competition. Some highlights from 2025 include participating in the Leeds Song Young Artist Programme with duo partner, Catriona Mackenzie, performing in Green Opera’s production of TESTAMENT at the Grimeborn Opera Festival and performing the Rooster in the RCM production of Leoš Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen. This term, Natalka is working as the soprano cover in Max Richter’s Woolf Works at the Royal Opera House.
Natalka is in high demand as a concert soloist, having performed across the country in oratorio works and having performed in prestigious venues, such as the Royal Albert Hall and Worcester College Oxford. Last year, she performed Oliver Knussen’s Songs and Hums and Songs of Winnie-the-Pooh with the RCM Wind Ensemble in the Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall and returned to perform Grete von Zieritz’s Japanische Lieder with RCM Conductor, Leif Tse. Recent oratorio highlights also include singing Haydn’s Creation and the soprano 1 solos of Mozart’s Mass in C minor.
Having grown up singing Ukrainian folk music with her father and sister, Natalka is enthusiastic about sharing her culture and has become involved with performing Ukrainian classical music. She has sung Ukrainian art songs at the Ukrainian Holland Park Cultural Centre and, more recently since the full-scale invasion, performed for charity concerts in King's Place Concert Hall, King’s Cross, and St Barnabas Church, Kensington, to raise funds for people affected by the war. In the past, she has been interviewed by the Ukrainian department of the BBC World Service about her musical endeavours as a third-generation Ukrainian soprano.