Viktoriya Ivanova

Viktoriya Ivanova is Soviet and Russian singer (lyric soprano). Honored Artist of the RSFSR. Viktoriya was born in one of the oldest historical districts of Moscow - Lefortovo, in a family of physicians Nikolay and Lidiya Ivanovs. Her father, who served as a military doctor in the Lefortovo Hospital, died when Viktoriya was 3 years old. The deceased father loved music and therefore, noticing the natural data of her daughter, the mother strongly promoted her musical development. Viktoriya graduated from music school in piano. Then she studied vocal with O. Slavinskaya-Fedorovskaya - first at the school, then at the institute and graduate school of the Gnesins Institute of Music. After graduating with honors GMPI of Gnesins in 1951, she became a soloist of the Moscow Philharmonic (until 1998). Viktoriya married a classmate Yuriy Matusov. Back in the years of study (from 1946), Viktoriya Ivanova began recording on the radio and in the 1960s gained wide popularity as a chamber and pop singer with a transparent, delicate timbre, with free and natural vocalization. Ivanova's repertoire consisted of music from different eras: classical, romantic, baroque. Victoriya Ivanova also recorded songs for movies and animated films.