Soprano Fotina Naumenko has been praised for her “radiant voice” (Boston Globe), described as both “angelic” (MusicWeb International) and “capable of spectacular virtuosic hi-jinks” (Boston Musical Intelligencer). Naumenko's singing encompasses a wide variety of vocal genres including oratorio, opera, art song, choral and contemporary music, both as a soloist and chamber musician.

Festival appearances have included Ravinia, Constella, Olavfestdagene and Tanglewood; her performances of David Lang’s just and Castiglioni’s Cantus Planus at the Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music were hailed as “a beautiful performance” by The New York Times and “a stunner” by the Boston Globe. Ensemble credits include Grammy Award-winning Conspirare, the Experiential Chorus, Grammy-nominated groups Skylark, Clarion, the Saint Tikhon Choir, and PaTRAM, as well as Cappella Romana, Coro Volante, Alium Spiritum, and Cincinnati’s Vocal Arts Ensemble. Naumenko has recorded with these groups on the Reference Recordings, Chandos, Delos, Ablaze Records, Naxos and Cincinnati Fanfare labels.

She is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music (Rochester, New York), the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (Cincinnati, Ohio), and the Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory of St. Petersburg, Russia, where she completed a Fulbright grant specializing in Russian vocal repertoire. She is in demand as a Slavonic and Russian diction clinician, and founded www.russianariaresource.com to make the repertoire more accessible to non-native speakers.

Naumenko has served as assistant professor of voice at Shenandoah Conservatory since fall 2018.