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== Alexandra Chernyshova is an operatic lyric-coloratura soprano singer and a composer of operatic and classical music. She was selected in top 10 outstanding young Icelanders in 2014 for her contribution to culture in Iceland. In 2020, Alexandra received the Reykjanesbær Cultural Award of the City. In 2002 she was a prize winner of National Music Competition "New Names of Ukraine" and others. In 2003 Alexandra follow her heart and married to Jón R.Hilmarsson, photographer. Since 2003 she lives in Iceland and they have three children. Alexandra completed Master of Music degree from the Iceland Academy of the Arts, M.Ed. from the University of Kiev, a master's degree in opera singing and a singing teacher's degree from the Odessa Academy of Music and the Kiev Glier High Music College, as well as a BA from the National Kiev Linguistic University. Alexandra finished 8th grade in piano playing from Kiev Music School N1. In addition, she studied singing at the Michael Trimble Opera Institute and Katja Ricciarelli Opera Academy, lied with Pr. Hanno Blascke as well. She began her career in the field as a soloist at the Kiev Academic Musical Theater of Opera and Ballet. Alexandra has sung with the Kiev National Radio Orquestra, Icelandic Orquestra of the North, in addition to which she has sung as a soloist with the Skagafjörður Opera and DreamVoices company which she founded in 2006. Alexandra has sung all over Iceland, Europe, New York, China, Japan, St.Petersburg, Moscow and far. She has released three solo albums Alexandra soprano (2006), A Dream with Romantic Songs by Sergei Rachmaninov with accompaniment by Jónas Ingimundarsson (2008) and You and only you (2011). In 2020, the first original opera "The Poet and Bishops daughter" music by Alexandra, libretto Guðrún Ásmundsdóttir won 1st place in the international composer competition Isaak Dunajevskiy in Moscow and aria Ave María from the same opera reached the top ten in the World Folk Vision international music competition. In year 2021, the opera ballet for children and adults music and libretto by Alexandra Chernyshova "The Northern Lights fairytale" based on a story of her mother's, Evgenia, won the Grand Prix at the Art Festival "Aurora" in Stockholm. Alexandra´s third opera "Good morning, Miss President" dedicated to the first woman president in the world - miss Vigdís Finnbogadóttir premiered in October 2021 and the same year aria "A Mothers love" sang by Alexandra brought her a prize in the first Clara Schumann music competition. Alexandra published two vocal books for voice and piano from her operas.For more info please visit her homepage. Her homepage: https://www.alexandrachernyshova.com Youtube page: https://www.youtube.com/alexandrachernyshova Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alexandrachernyshova_soprano Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/alexandrachernyshova ==