Tatjana Starkova is a Russian soprano born in 1989. She studied at the Perm State Academy of Art and Culture and then joined the Mariinsky Theatre Academy of Young Opera Singers in St Petersburg. She has taken part in numerous competitions, winning first prize at the Rimsky-Korsakov International Competition for Young Opera Singers in 2015 and second prize at the Competition of Russian Music Schools Alumni in St Petersburg in 2014.