Inessa Bodyako

Associate professor Inessa Bodyako is the artistic director of students’ choirs and teaches choral conducting and the history of Russian choral music at the Belarusian State Academy of Music. She was chorus master of the Academic Chorus of the national television and radio broadcasting company of the Republic of Belarus and founder and conductor of the chamber choir “Cantemus” becoming the prize-winner of international choral competitions in Italy (Arezzo, Gorizia), Spain (Tolosa), Poland (Hajnovka) and Belarus (Minsk). Inessa has served on the juries of many national and international competitions, has given master classes in Germany, France, was responsible for a great number of choral projects in Belarus including the Open Conductors’ competition named after V. Rovdo, Choral pages of the twentieth century, and the female chorus “Charouniya lilei”. Email: inesminsk@tut.by