Taras Semenov

The tenor Taras Semenov was born on 11.12.1995 in Bar, Ukraine. Already in his first year of study, the young tenor made his debut as DoktorS. in the opera "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" by Michael Nyman at the Hochschule für Künste in Bremen and also in September of the same year in the world premiere of "der Verlorene Vater" by Benjamin Helmer as Caspar at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg.

In the Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia, he successfully completed his training at the Leontovych Music College in 2014 in the subject of tuba and received the general university entrance qualification as well as a degree as an orchestral musician and music teacher.

Already after the training he started his teaching activities at two music schools and studied Orthodox theology in Kiev (by distance learning) as well as music as a teaching degree in Vinnytsia.

During his voluntary service in Eutin, he met director Dominique Caron and conductor Romely Pfund. He was engaged as a chorister at the Eutin Festival and took part in the production of "A Masked Ball" (2019).

Since autumn 2019 he has been studying with Espen Fegran and since October 2020 at the Hochschule für Künste Bremen in the Bachelor of Music Artistic Training with a major in singing with Prof. Thomas Mohr.

Semenov's interest and enthusiasm for the German art song is particularly noteworthy. He is intensively engaged with this genre and has further developed his skills in song composition, especially under the guidance of Marlene Heiß. He also developed his own conceptual works, such as Liederabend-Requiem "Lieder von der Ewigkeit" or Liederabend based on H. Heine and R. Schumann under the title "Dichter.Liebe".

In February 2022 he won 2nd prize at the Regional Lion Music Prize. In 2023 Taras Semenov is a scholarship holder of the Richard Wagner Scholarship Foundation.