FREI, Natalija Marchenkova

Natalija Marchenkova Frei is a music educator, composer, and founder of the DAR Creative Music School in St. Gallen. She completed comprehensive training in music education and composition at the Music Academy and Conservatory in Lviv under Prof. Flys and Prof. Skorik, as well as further studies at the Mozarteum Salzburg under Prof. Febel. Since 2007, she has directed the "DAR Creative Music School" in St. Gallen, which she founded. Each year, the music school organizes three concerts featuring its students: the summer concert, the Duo Festival, and the Christmas concert.

As a professional composer, she creates works for various ensembles.

As a music educator, she teaches children from the age of three using a combined teaching method she developed herself. She also provides individual instruction to adults in piano, voice, composition, solfège, music theory, harmony, and conducting.