“Shyps & Roses”
are available for recitals, musical festivals, radio shows; charitable, private and corporate events.
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"Shyps & Roses" is a group of passionate, classically trained musicians. We share the excitement of heart-warming vocal music with our audiences. Our repertoire includes a variety of rare folk music as well as operatic, Slavic and European classics.
We enjoy performing in concert halls, musical festivals, radio shows; charitable, private and corporate events.
Our ensemble is a winner of Artists International's Chamber Music Award and Long Island International Chamber Competition. We have performed at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Steinway Hall, Trinity Church's "Concerts at One" Series, Lang Hall at Hunter College and many other venues.
We enjoy collaborating with such prominent musicians as pianists Julian Gargiulo, Maria Yefimova, jazz pianist Wells Hanley, violinist Dmitri Berlinsky.
Olga Shyp, soprano, a native of Ukraine, is a graduate of the Odessa State Musical Academy (formerly known as Odessa State Conservatory). She has sung numerous operatic roles including Despina, Cosi Fan Tutte; Adina, L'Elisir d'Amore; Norina, Don Pasquale; Violetta, La Traviata; Silberklang, Der Schauspieldirektor; Lucie, The Telephone; Tonina, Primo la Musica, Poi le Parole; Oksana, Zaporozhets Beyond the Danube; La Chauve-Souris, L'Enfant et les Sortiléges; the title role in Rimsky-Korsakov's Snow Maiden.
An accomplished recitalist and oratorio soloist, Olga has performed in the United States and toured Western and Eastern Europe. Her oratorio repertoire includes Handel's Messiah, Brahms' Requiem, Mozart's Requiem, J.S. Bach's Magnificat, Johannes Passion and Matteus Passion.
Olga combines her career of a classical singer with other related activities, such as conducting, directing and teaching. Her most recent engagement was directing and appearance in the Opera Shorts Festival at Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall on October 1, 2010 presented by Remarkable Theater Brigade. Olga's other engagements with this company include a fundraiser for Haiti, Opera Shorts at Carnegie Hall (2009), Emerging Composers Chamber Operas concert (in collaboration with Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music), performing in a master class with Marvin Hamlisch and directing a concert of opera scenes for its 2009 Young Artist Program.
Roza Bulat, soprano, a native of Uzbekistan, is a graduate of Manhattan School of Music. She has sung Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi (Mississippi Opera), Rosalinda in Die Fledermaus (Las Vegas), Musetta in La Bohème (Cantiamo Opera, NY), Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Brooklyn Opera), Micaëla in Carmen (Brooklyn Conservatory), Livia in Cimarosa's L' Italiana in Londra and La Ciesca in Gianni Schicchi (Manhattan School of Music), First Lady in Die Zauberflöte (Intermezzo Festival in Florida), Fiordilidgi in Così fan Tutte (Hubbard Opera Theater, NY), Nella in Gianni Schicchi (Rockland Opera, NY), and Donna Anna in The Stone Guest (Stony Brook University).
Ms. Bulat also appeared as a featured artist in concerts with Las Vegas Opera and Las Vegas Philharmonic. She is a first place winner of Texas Music Teachers Association Competition, two time District winner of Metropolitan Opera Audition, district winner of the National Association of Teachers of Singing Award, and a finalist of the Meistersinger Competition in Graz, Austria.
Ms. Bulat is currently a Resident Artist at the Dicapo Opera Theatre.
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