Andrei Bondarenko
Andrei Bondarenko (born 1987) is a Ukrainian baritone opera singer.
Bondarenko was born in Kamianets-Podilskyi, Ukraine.[1] He trained at the National Tchaikovsky Academy of Music in Kiev and at the Kiev Conservatory. He won the "Art in the 21st Century" competition in Vorzel, and was a prize-winner at the 2006 International Rimsky-Korsakov competition in St Petersburg and the 2008 Nadezhda Obuhova Young Vocalists´ Festival. In 2007 he joined the Mariinsky Academy of Young Singers. [2]
Bondarenko appeared in the Salzburg Festival in 2009, and in 2011 represented Ukraine in the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition,[3] winning the Song Prize[4] and getting through to the final for which he became hot favourite.[5] He is due to make his Glyndebourne debut later in 2011.
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