Oksana Sinkova
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Oksana Sinkova is working as a guest concert master of the Narva Symphony Orchestra flute group since 1999 and she has been the concert master of Vanemuine Theatre’s flute group (2000-2008) and a member of the National Opera Estonia Symphony Orchestra’s flute group (2008-2011).
Oksana obtained her Bachelor's degree cum laude (Prof. N. Punder, M. Helin and I. Sneibis) and defended her Master's degree at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre (EAMT). She complemented her studies at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg (2004 – 2005) and at the Doctoral level of EAMT (2006-2011). O. Sinkova has participated in several masterclasses of well-known flutists (M. Helin, M. Järvi, P. Gallois, R. Greiss-Armin etc.).
O. Sinkova has won several international and national competitions like Grand Prix at the Estonian Music School’s Competition (1997), EAMT and Sibelius Academy J. S. Bach Competition (1998), first prize at the Yamaha Competition (1999), at the National Bach Competition (2000) and she has also been a finalist at the Con Brio 2000 and International Andrejs Jurjāns Competition (Riga, 2001) as well as a laureate of the International Competition Pacem in Terris (Bayreuth, 2005) etc. She has been awarded the PLMF award “Young Musician 2008”.
O. Sinkova has numerously performed at solo concerts and as a soloist in front of several orchestras in Estonia and abroad, with the Swedish string orchestra Camerata Nordica she has been a part of concert tours in Italy, Sweden and Wales. She has been invited to perform at festivals in Italy, Slovakia and Czech and she has given performances at several festivals in Estonia.
Her solo repertoire includes virtuous flute music from world’s music treasury. O. Sinkova is working as a professor at EAMT from 2008.