Antonina Levina – laureate and diplomant of international competitions. In 2018, she was granted the title of “Ambassador of Russian Romance” by “Big Romansiada” competition in Moscow. Graduate of Kamchatka and Voronezh Musical colleges (in Theory and History of Music), in Canada she received a Master’s degree in Molecular Genetics (McGill University, Montreal). However, in 2004, Antonina came back to music as a singer: after receiving her vocal training in Montreal, she perfected her art at Academy of Belcanto de Mirella Freni (Italy) and at Academie Roche d’Hys (France). In 2007, she sang a solo recital at Carnegie Hall (NY). In a collaboration with Canadian musicians, Antonina released an album of romances “Russian Dreams” and an album of Russian Sacred music “My Soul”, with the choir of Odessa Monastery of Iveskaya Icon of God’s Mother.

Work on the one-woman opera of M. Tariverdiev “The Waiting” under the direction of Jeannette Aster (performed in Bourgogne in 2016) inspired Antonina to further explore the genre of one-woman-show. In 2018, she wrote and performed her mono spectacle “I saw a dream about Klavdia Shulzhenko” about the most popular singer of Soviet epoch. She also inspired and worked on the musical shows with actors of Moscow Theatre “Glas”: “A meeting, which never happened” about K. Shulzhenko and I. Dunaevsky and “Cherchez la femme” about Pauline Viardot and I. Tourgenev.

As a musicologist, Antonina directs “Russian Musical Salon” in Montreal, where thematic evenings of Russian Music take place. In 2019 she founded Canadian Club of Russian Romances “From Afar” (Izdaleka)