Alevtina Sagitullina

After her piano studies and winning the international "Artobolevskaia Piano Competition", Alevtina Sagitullina began her studies in Berlin at the HfM "Hanns Eisler". After completing her vocal and correpetition studies (with distinction), she gained her first teaching experience as a lecturer at the HfM "Hanns Eisler" and the UdK Berlin.

In 2016 she won the pianist prize at the Bundeswettbewerb Gesang in Berlin and held a guest professorship for repertoire at Sungshin University in Seoul (South Korea). In the 2017 to 2019 seasons, she was the Director of Studies at Theater an der Wien and "Head Coach" of the Junge Ensemble. From 2019 to 2022, she served as solo repetiteur and assistant at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden under the direction of Daniel Barenboim.

Here she worked with a variety of distinguished conductors. These include: Simon Rattle ("Idomeneo"), Zubin Mehta ("Rosenkavalier"), Daniel Barenboim (piano part in the Organ Symphony by C. Saint-Saens and "Quartet" by L. Francesconi), Marc Minkowski ("Mitridate"), Thomas Guggeis ("Hansel and Gretel," "Magic Flute," "Ariadne auf Naxos" and "La Traviata"), Antonio Pappano ("La fanciulla del West"), Massimo Zanetti ("Il barbiere di Siviglia"), Maxime Pascal ("Pelléas et Mélisande"), Diego Matheuz ("Rigoletto") and Peter Eötvös (world premiere of "Sleepeless "by P. Eötvös).

During her career, she has also worked in various opera houses with important directors such as Calixto Bieito, Harry Kupfer, David Alden, David McVikar, Kornél Mundruczó and Dmitri Cherniakov. She was responsible for various opera rehearsals as a freelance coach from 2010 to 2017: Stravinsky's opera "Mavra" conducted by Mikhail Jurowski at the Stuttgart Philharmonic, "Eugene Onegin" at the Aachen Opera conducted by Marcus Bosch, "Lady McBeth of Mtsensk" by Shostakovich, "Khovanchina" by Mussorgsky and "Sadko" by Rimsky-Korsakov conducted by Dmitry Jurowski at the Vlaamse Opera Antwerp, "Ivan Susanin" by Glinka conducted by music director Sebastian Weigle at the Frankfurt Opera.

She has had a special love for the Lied since her student days in the Lied class of Prof. Wolfram Rieger.  She accompanied for several years in the master classes of KS Prof. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. She also performed in the lied classes of Prof. Thomas Quasthoff and KS Prof. Siegfried Lorenz. As a lied accompanist she regularly performs at renowned festivals such as the "Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern" and the "Heidelberger Frühling". She gave recitals with Olga Peretyatko, Irina Lungu, Prof. Nikolay Borchev, Evelina Dobraceva, KS Prof. Roman Trekel and Liene Kinca on stages such as Victoria Hall Singapore, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Theater an der Wien, Opera Vlaanderen and Teatro Carlos Gomes in Brazil.