Ksenia Berestovskaya

Siberian mezzo-soprano Ksenia Berestovskaya holds an extensive portfolio of concert work throughout the United States, Russia and the United Kingdom.

Born in Omsk, Russia during the dissolution of the Soviet Union to a mathematician father and engineer mother, Berestovskaya experienced music as a manifestation of strength – and as an experience that bound the generations together.

“My grandparents lived through a world war, through concentration camps, through military service. My aunts were children of war,” she says. Decades later, her father’s family would still sing old folks songs a capella in Ukranian; her mother’s – convening relatives distant and close around the kitchen table – traditional songs in Russian. “People would always sing. Whether they were happy or sad, they would sing.”

Berestovskaya earned a Master of Music in Vocal Performance from the New England Conservatory in Boston, MA. During her career as a student she performed a variety of roles ranging from Prince Orlofsky in Die Flederemaus (at Boston’s Cutler Majestic Theatre) to Annina in La Traviata (at the Bijou Theatre in Knoxville, TN).

Berestovskaya is a first-place NATS Mid-South Region competition winner, a finalist of The American Prize in Voice/ Friedrich & Virginia Schorr Memorial Award, and a semifinalist in the Francisco Araiza's Sonora International Opera Competition.