OKSANA LYNIV

Oksana Lyniv was born in and got a preparatory degree in flute and from 1992 until 1996 at the Lyudkevich School in . From 1996 till 2003 she studied conducting at the music Academy of Lviv. In 2004 she participated in the 1st Gustav-Mahler-Competition of the Symphony Orchestra of Bamberg and got the 3rd prize. In 2005 she became Assistant to Conductor Jonathan Nott.

In 2005 she began her studies at the Hochschule für Musik ‚Carl Ma- ria von Weber‘ in Dresden and took masterclasses next to Ekkehard Klemm. She received scholarships from the DAAD, the Goethe-Institut and the Oscar-und-Vera-Ritter- Foundation. From 2007 till 2009 she was a scholar of the ‚‚Conductors‘ Forum‘‘ of the German Music Council and took Masterclasses with Hartmut Haenchen, Kurt Masur, Peter Gülke and Georg Fritzsch. Lyniv has recorded with the Symphony orchestra of Bamberg and the Bavarian Radio. She conducted concerts in Uk- raine, Germany, France, Rumania, Austria, Hungary, Esthonia and Switzerland. In 2008 she conducted ‚‚La Bohème‘‘, ‚‚Madama Butterfly‘‘, ‚‚Rigoletto‘‘ and ‚‚Cavalleria rusticana‘‘ at the State Opera in Odessa. From 2013 till 2017 Oksana Lyniv was Assistant of Chief conductor Kirill Petrenko at the Bavaria State Opera, where she conducted ‚‚Mirandolina‘‘, ‚‚La clemenza di Tito‘‘, ‚‚La traviata‘‘, ‚‚Die Fledermaus‘‘, ‚‚Lucia di Lammermoor‘‘, ‚‚Ari- adne auf Naxos‘‘, ‚‚Lady Macbeth von Mzensk‘‘, ‚‚Selma Ježková‘‘ (after Lars von Trier‘s Film "Dancer in the Dark") as well as the premiere of ‚‚Mauerschau‘‘.

In May 2017 she was in charge of a production series of Wagner’s ‚‚Fliegender Holländer‘‘ at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona. At the Bartók Plus Opera Festival in 2016 she conducted a production of Bartók’s operas in Miskolc. In January 2019 she had her debut at the Deutsche Oper Berlin with ‚‚Tosca‘‘, at the State Opera of Stuttgart with ‚‚Pique Dame‘‘ and in March 2019 at the with Tchaikovsky’s ‚‚The Maid of Orleans‘‘. Since August 2017 she has been in charge of the international Festival LvivMozArt in Lemberg, which is dedicated to the works of Franz Xaver Mozart and presents historical and modern productions. Since September 2017 she is Chief Conductor at the Graz Opera and of the Philharmonic Opera of Graz. Theres he conducted ‚‚La Traviata‘‘, ‚‚Eugen Onegin‘‘, ‚‚Il viaggio a Reims‘‘, ‚‚Pagliacci‘‘, ‚‚Cavalleria rusticana‘‘, ‚‚Salome‘‘, ‚‚Tosca‘‘ and ‚‚Lucia di Lammermoor‘‘.

In 2017 she founded the Youth Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, with the participation of young talented musicians of her homeland.