Ilona Domnich
Soprano

Ilona Domnich Featured in Opera Now magazine’s ‘pick of the most promising new talent’ of the 2007 season.  Ilona was born in St Petersburg and raised in Israel. Supported by American cultural foundation scholarships and prestigious Wingate scholarship, Ilona studied at the St. Petersburg School of Music, Jerusalem Academy and with Vera Rosza at the Royal College of Music, London.

Recently Ilona was highly praised by Montserrat Caballe at the Master Class in Spain.           

 Other successful performances include’ Brief encounter with Rachmaninoff’ for The London Song Festival (d.Michael White), Shostakovich 14^th Symphony with Cambridge university chamber orchestra (c.Howard Williams), Verdi’s Requiem with Brandenburg Symphony Orchestra and Tiffin’s boys choir (c.Simon Toyne).                                      

Ilonas’ opera roles include Zerlina, Don Giovanni with English Touring Opera                ( c.Michael Rosewell, d. Jonathan Munby), Laura Romeo and Juliet by Benda, Buxton Festival (c.Mathew Hall, d.Jeremy Grey), La Voix Humaine, Poulenc for Hampstead & Highgate Festival(d.Sebastian Harcombe), Tatiana Eugene Onegin at the Richmond theatre(c.Simon Toyne d. Elaine Tayler-Hall), Columbina The Jewel Box by Mozart in St.John’s Smith Square (c.Edward Gardner,d.Jeremy Grey), Pamina Die Zauberflöte with English Touring Opera (c.Leo Husain) Blondchen Die Entführung aus dem Serail for Dartington Summer Music (d.Tomas Hamsley, c.Yuval Zorn), Tatyana Eugene Onegin for the Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme (d.Sergei Lieferkus)

As a recitalist Ilona appeared at St. Martin-in-the-Fields, St. James Piccadilly, St.George’s Hanover Square , Lauderdale House and American Cathedral in Paris. 

In Oratorio her repertoire includes Mozart Mass in C minor, Mendelssohn Elijah; Mahler Symphony No 2 (c.Diego Mason), Beethoven 9^th (c.Sharon Choa).

She studied with Enid Hartle and recently with Joan Rodgers and Yvonne Kenny.

Future engagements include Strauss Brentano songs, op 68 at Huddersfield Halls(c. Benjamin Ellin), Tatiana, Eugene Onegin, Iford Opera Festival (c.Oliver Gooch), One act opera, commisioned for the Chelsea Schubert Festival on poems of Anna Akhmatova, Beethoven 9^th in Cambridge, Mahler 8^th in Huddersfield.

In April 2009 Ilona has recorded her first CD and was part of a documentary on BBC radio 4 (performing to the red light), which was exploring the psychology of recording a classical CD)