Oliver Kuusik

(tenor)

EDUCATION AND WORK
Oliver Kuusik studied singing at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre (2000–2003 with Virgilius Noreika) and at London Guildhall School of Music and Drama Opera Studio (with Rudolf Piernay). He received his MA in 2006. He was a soloist with the Estonian National Opera in 2008–2017. Since 2017, he is a free lance singer.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Oliver Kuusik won the 1st prize at the Hendrik Krumm Singing Competition in 2006, 3rd prize and the Kremling’s special prize for the best interpretation of German vocal music at the 5th Klaudia Taev International Competition (2007). In 2008, he received the annual Estonian Theatre Award for his singing of Peter Quint and Prologue in Britten’s “Turn of the Screw”. In 2009, he was awarded with the Chrystal Shoe Award for progress in vocal and acting skills. In 2011 and 2015 he was given the SEB audience award.

REPERTOIRE
Faust (Gounod’s “Faust”)
Alfredo (Verdi’s “La traviata”)
Nemorino (Donizetti’s “L’elisir d’amore”)
Don Ramiro (Rossini’s “La Cenerentola”)
Nicias (Massenet’s “Thaïs”)
Christian (Tamberg’s “Cyrano de Bergerac”)
Ferrando (Mozart’s “Così fan tutte”) 
Don Ottavio (Mozart’s “Don Giovanni”)
Tamino (Mozart’s “Die Zauberflöte”)
Rinuccio (Puccini’s “Gianni Schicchi”)
Sesto (Händel’s “Julius Caesar”) 
Goffredo (Händel’s “Rinaldo”)
Walther (Wagner’s “Tannhäuser”) 
Fenton (Verdi’s “Falstaff”)
Orpheus (Offenbach’s “Orpheus in the Underworld”)