The Swiss soprano Tatjana Gazdik read medicine and law before studying voice with Verena Schweizer at the Music Academy of Basle where she passed her concert diploma with distinction in 1999. Tatjana expanded her technical accomplishment through lessons with Carol Smith, Gregory Lamarr and Nicolas Giusti and participation in masterclasses with Ernst Haefliger, Hedwig Fassbender and Judith Beckmann at the International Bach Academy in Stuttgart. In 1994 and 1996 she was awarded the Migros scholarship prize (Switzerland) and in 2003 she was a prize-winner in the 'Concorso Mattia Battistini' in Italy. She also has a dance education in classical ballet, jazz-dance and step.

Various engagements have led Tatjana to the opera houses of Basle, Biel and St. Gallen, to the Gran Teatro La Fenice in Venice and to Rome where she sang such roles as Papagena, Musetta, Frasquita, Post Christl, Fiametta, Adele, Gilda and Norina. At the EXPO in 2002 she appeared in the part of Umbrella Pipistrella in the opera Black Tell.  In 2005 she made her role-debut as Queen of the Night in Portugal (Colyseum di Oporto) and in the season of 2006/07 Tatjana guested at the Komische Oper Berlin in the roles of Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte, Jenny in the new production of The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny by Kurt Weill and to great critical and public acclaim, Lisa in Peter Konwitschny`s new production of ‘Das Land des Lächelns’ by Franz Lehár (live broadcasting by ARTE). Tatjana reprised the role of Lisa at the Theatre Basle and at the Staatstheater Nuremberg in 2007/08.

At the Komische Oper Berlin she made her role-debut as Donna Anna in Don Giovanni in 2007/08 and in 2008/09 as Antonia in The Tales of Hoffmann.

In 2009/10 she made her debut as Laura in Hindemith’s opera ‘Neues vom Tage’ at the Opéra de Dijon as well as her debut as Rosalinde in a concert of Strauss’ operetta Die Fledermaus (The Bat) with the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Then she was on parental leave.

Tatjana Gadzik is very active on the concert platform and in lieder recitals, her repertoire includes works such as Handel’s Jeptha; Mozart’s Exsultate, Jubilate; Coronation Mass; Requiem; and various Bach cantatas; Haydn’s Creation and Paukenmesse; Mendelssohn’s Elijah and Paul; Brahms’ German Requiem; Gounod’s Mass for St. Cecilia; Orff’s Carmina Burana; Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle; Honegger’s Le Roi David; Poulenc’s Gloria; Rachmaninov`s Glocken and Mahler´s 4th Symphony.

Tatjana Gazdik has taken part in various radio, tv- and CD productions.

She worked with conductors such as Kirill Petrenko, Ralf Weikert, Markus Poschner, Marcus Bosch, Thomas Rösner, Yin Wang, Jürg Henneberger, Howard Griffith, Xavier Roth, Andres Orozco Estrada, Daniele Callegari, Constantin Trinks, Walter Weller and with stage directors such as Andreas Homoki, Peter Konwitschny, Robert Herzl oder Herbert Wernicke.

Last update April 2012