Ukrainian tenor Maxim Pastér sang Schubert’s Mass in e flat major at Teatro San Carlo di Napoli under Tomas Netopil, Mendelssohn’s Erste Walpurgisnacht and Stravinsky’s Les Noces together with MDR Leipzig under Mario Venzago in spring 2006. In 2007 he will appear at Frauenkirche Dresden with Mozart’s Coronation Mass under Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos. At Teatro Comunale Bologna he will sing Shuisky in a new production of Boris Godunov under Daniele Gatti.

During a guest-performance of the Bolshoi Theatre Moscow Maxim Pastér appeared as Macduff in Verdi’s Macbeth at Athens Festival 2005. He attracted special attention in Sorokin’s and Desjatnikow’s headline-catching opera world-premiere Rosenthal’s Children appearing successfully in the role of Tchaikovsky at the Bolshoi Theatre where he also sang Tamino (Zauberflöte) and Pinkerton (Madama Butterfly) in 2006/06. Since making his Bolshoi-debut in 2003 as Bayan in Glinka’s Ruslan and Ludmila he also appeared in roles such as Sinowij Borissowitsch Ismailow (Lady Macbeth), Macduff (Macbeth), Andrey (Mazeppa), Mephistopheles (Fiery Angel), Steersman (Flying Dutchman) or Shuisky (Boris Godunov) there.

Since 2002, Maxim Pastér has been soloist with the Kharkov Lysenko Theatre regularly, too. His repertoire includes roles such as Paolino (Il matrimonio segreto), Lucentio (Taming of the Shrew), Chekalinsky (The Queen of Spades), Rodolfo (La Boheme), Nemorino (L’elisir d’amore), Prince (Rusalka), Alfredo Germont (Traviata), Duca di Mantova (Rigoletto) as well as solo parts in Mozart's Requiem and Coronation Mass, in Verdi's Messa da Requiem, Webber's Requiem, Schubert's Mass G-major, Mass A flat-major, Rossini's Petite Messe solennelle, Bach’s St. Matthew’s Passion and Stabat mater (Rossini and Dvorak).

Maxim Pastér was award-winner at several international competitions. At Antonin Dvorak Competition (2000), at Amber Nightingale Chamber Singing Competition in Kaliningrad, during the A. Solovyanenko Nightingale Fair Competition in Donetsk in 2002, at Pyotr Ilych Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 2002 and during the N. Lysenko Competition in Kiev in 2002 he was decorated with several prizes. Maxim Pastér also was Grant-holder of the N. Manoylo prize in 2002. Recently he was awarded the Grand Prix at the Boris Gmirja-singing-competition in Kiev.

Pentatone released a recording of the Ruslan and Ludmilla Bolshoi-production in 2003 featuring Maxim Pastér as Bayan.

Maxim Pastér graduated from the faculty of choral conducting of the Kharkov Music College. In 1998, he entered the vocal faculty of Kharkov Institute of Arts where he joined the classes of Prof. L. Tsuran and D. Gendelman.

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