Valerija Iljin

Valerija Iljin is a Lithuanian spinto soprano who recently graduated with a Master of Arts with distinction from the Royal Academy of Music. Valerija also holds a BMus degree from Trinity Laban and a BA theatre degree from VIKO and LCM.

In 2025 Valerija will join Dolora Zajick’s Institute for Young Dramatic Voices as an emerging artist. In 2024, Valerija became a finalist in the Hans Gabor Belvedere competition and won the Isabel Jay Memorial and Third Medici prizes.

Valerija made her Carnegie Hall and Wigmore Hall debut in 2023 and was a semi-finalist of the Kathleen Ferrier Awards and a runner-up of the Clara Schumann lieder competition.

Recent opera and theatre credits include Larina in Onegin (HGO), Chrysothemis in Elektra (DVPB), Elsa in Lohengrin (RAM), Norma in Norma (RAM), 1st Lady in Die Zauberflöte (MOS) Maria in the Westside Story (Vilnius Philharmonic), Susanna and Emma (R&D with Bolshoi theatre).