Courses and Webinars on Russian Lyric Diction
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We are delighted to invite you to our Group webinars with Dr. Natalia Melnik!
Coming in March-April 2026 is our online course "Introduction to Russian lyric diction + master pronunciation of four Russian art songs".
This Online course includes 4 webinars with Dr. Natalia Melnik, in which she will cover the following:
- Russian Alphabet, Russian sounds and IPA
- Russian Vowels
- Russian Consonants
- Brief Russian Grammar overview
- Different approaches to Russian phonetics for singers and how to navigate them
- Lyric diction of four Russian art songs
- P. I. Tchaikovsky "My Genius, My Angel, My Friend"
- P. I. Tchaikovsky "No, Only The One Who Knew..." ("None But The Lonely Heart"), Op.6 N6
- S. Rachmaninoff "Dream", Ор. 8 № 5.
- S. Rachmaninoff "The Lilacs", Ор. 21 № 5.
Places are limited - we have 6 spots only!!!
Please check out the event description for more details and to book your spot on this course:
Dr. Natalia Melnik is a classical singer and a native Russian speaker based in Sydney, Australia.
Natalia was born in Moscow and moved to Sydney in 2013. She holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, with her research focused on making Russian vocal music more accessible to non-Russian-speaking singers.
She has been coaching Russian lyric diction internationally since 2016 and has developed her unique method of teaching Russian diction for Singers, which includes specially designed diction scores (sheet music that incorporates IPA and translation), audio and video diction tutorials.
Over the years, Natalia conducted Russian Lyric diction workshops and coaching at such organisations as Opera Australia Young Artist Program, Australian Institute of Music (AIM), Sydney Conservatorium of Music Choir, Sydney Art Song Society, The Opera and Art Song Collective, as well as individual professional singers (Online, worldwide)