The award-winning Norwegian soprano, Elizaveta Agrafenina is quickly becoming recognized for her musical versatility in a wide-ranging repertoire that spans the Baroque period through 21st century contemporary music.

A recent graduate from the Conservatory of Amsterdam under tutelage of Sasja Hunnego, Pierre Mak and Jan-Paul Grijpink.

Elizaveta’s career is divided in operatic, lied and chamber music directions. She took a part of the Young Artist Program at Bergen National Opera in Norway and has since 2017 sung in several productions, such as Werther by Massenet, La Clemenza di Tito by Mozart and Die Lustige Witwe by Lehar. Her recent success was in The Netherlands, where she toured together with Dutch Student Chamber Orchestra, under the baton of Stijn Berkouwer. She successfully performed at venues such as Muziekgebouw aan het IJ and Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, with music by Henriëtte Bosmans and a new commissioned piece by Ramin Amin Tafreshi.

Elizaveta is passionate about chamber music and lied. In the Netherlands, she has performed Pierrot Lunaire by Schoenberg, Shostakovitch's Seven Poems by A. Blok with Brackman Trio and Shostakovitch's From Jewish Folk Poetry in Yiddish and in Russian with ensemble Vertoon. In 2019, she performed with the famous Norwegian violinist Ragnhild Hemsing the masterpiece by Edvard Grieg Haugtussa arranged for a string sextet at the festival Fränkische Musiktage in Germany, a Dutch premiere took place in June 2022 at the Eibergen Chamber Music Festival. She is both curating and performing every summer at the Finnish Pyhäjärven kamarimusiikki music festival and the Norwegian festival Grieg in Bergen.

For the season of 2022/2023, Elizaveta is singing in several chamber music festivals in Europe and recording with three different labels, projects such as From Jewish Folk Poetry, Missing Voices and Bosmans & Beyond.

Lead, kindly light

Henriëtte Bosmans (1895 - 1952)
Muziekgebouw aan het IJ, Amsterdam 2022

Performed by NESKO Dutch Student Chamber Orchestra , Soprano Elizaveta Agrafenina , Conducted by Stijn Berkouwer ; Video: BubbleEyes.nl
*This recording is made possible by the support of the Mondrian Fund.