Nadiya Khaverko

Voice (Classical Music)

Artistic & Pedagogical Education

  • 1990-1994 Studies at the Conservatory in Khmelnytskyy/Ukraine (graduated with distinction) Training as choir conductor (main subject) with the qualifications music school teacher, choir director, music pedagogue
  • 1994-2004 Diploma studies in choral conducting at the State Academy of Music M. W. Lyssenko Lviv (Lviv)/Ukraine, qualifications: choir conductor, choir singer, teacher
  • 2001-2008 Diploma studies in the concert subject singing at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz
  • 2008-2012 IGP at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, Master of Arts with excellent results

Teaching Experience 

  • Since 1992 music teacher, choir director and voice trainer for various choirs and ensembles. Choir director activity in orthodox liturgy; director of the ensemble of the Greek-Catholic Church in Graz and of the choir "Chorodia Byzantina Geras" in Geras Monastery
  • Since 2005 working as a singing teacher.
  • Accompaniment of singers* in the preparation of vocal literature in Russian language
  • Speaker at seminars and workshops on the general topic "Speaking, singing and language in singing
  • Holding of master classes in Austria, Ukraine, Malta and Russia
  • Jury member at music competitions in Austria and internationally
  • Since 2011 lecturer at the University of Arts Graz with the lecture "Russian for the stage"
  • 2014-2020 vocal pedagogue at the Prayner Conservatory Vienna (solo voice, song and oratorio, vocal ensemble, chamber choir)
  • Since fall term 2020 vocal pedagogue at the Friedrich Gulda School of Music 

Concerts & Performances

  • 1994-2001 ensemble singer and soloist in the chamber choir "Gloria" in Lviv
  • Participation in projects at the Stadttheater Leoben (Young Theater Graz), the Theater im Palais in Graz, the Opera House Graz
  • Participation in world premieres of contemporary music: Church opera "Franz Jägerstätter" by Viktor Fortin (Franciscan Church/Graz), as well as in projects "Operas of the Future" at the Graz Opera
  • Appearances at the Theater an der Wien at the festival "KlangBogen", at the Styriarte Graz, at the Lehár Operetta Festival in Bad Ischl, at KirchenTonArtKrems in Krems on the Danube and at the chamber music festival "Allegro Vivo" in Waldviertel/NÖ
  • International solo performances as a concert singer in recitals and solo parts in oratorios and trade fairs