Tatiana Kouzovkina (artist name Tatiana Lina) was born in Novosibirsk, the capital of Siberia and Russia’s third largest city. There she completed her schooling and received her musical education. At 18 she moved to St. Petersburg, where she studied acting and directing at the St. Petersburg State Institute of Culture and Arts, and worked at the Leningrad Chamber Theatre.

In 1992 Tatiana was invited to the Netherlands to join a theatre production. She has lived in Amsterdam ever since. Together with an international group of theatre makers, she co-founded the  Amsterdam Chamber Theatre, (ACT)

a company that remains active and creative today. ACT has performed throughout the Netherlands and internationally, participating in numerous theatre festivals. With ACT, Tatiana has acted in more than 20 productions and has written several theatre scripts.

Tatiana began teaching acting while still a university student and has since taught in Russia, Scandinavia, the Netherlands, and Egypt. For eight years she was a guest teacher at GITIS Scandinavia, a branch of the Russian State Theatre Academy (GITIS Moscow). She has also led classes and workshops at the Cairo Theater Academy, TheaterStudio and the Performers House in Denmark, Leiden University, and the Amateur Toneelschool Amsterdam.

Tatiana wrote her first songs for her graduation performance at the University of St. Petersburg. Since then, she has composed music for more than ten theatre productions both in the Netherlands and abroad.

In the Netherlands, Tatiana discovered her love for world music. In 1996 she co-founded the a cappella quartet Rusalki, dedicated to traditional songs from various cultures. With Rusalki, she performed over 300 concerts and recorded three CDs.

In 2007 she published her first songbook featuring vocal arrangements of traditional Russian songs, and soon after began leading world-music vocal workshops for choirs.

Since 2010 Tatiana has been the artistic leader and conductor of the Amsterdam vocal group Angels.

From 2011 to 2014 she studied choir conducting to support her rapidly growing musical career. In 2013 she became the conductor of Wereldkoor Haarlem.

From 2021 till 2025 she conducted the male choir Vgrdznob (Georgian for “I feel”)

Tatiana has always balanced her two passions - music and theatre - and continues to explore, combine, and share both disciplines in her work.

Opleiding:

St. Petersburg State Institute of Culture & Arts

Department of Theater Art

Work:

1989 - 1992

Leningrad Chamber Theatre

1992 - 2015

Amsterdam Chamber Theatre

Played in more then 30 productions:

'Miss Julie' (A. Strindberg); 'A Seagull' (A. Chekhov); 'Play Strindberg' (F. Durrenmatt); 'The Orchestra' (J. Anouilh); 'The Wood demon' (A. Chekhov); 'Salome' (O.Wilde); 'Kerstavond' (N. Gogol); 'The bold Prima Donna' (E. Ionesko)

and many others...

More than 25 years of teaching experience:

acting and speech lessons, vocal coaching, storytelling, monologues, coaching (graduation) shows

2002 - 2008

Guest teacher at GITIS Scandinavia  – a Scandinavian department of the Russian State Theatre Academy GITIS, Moscow

1989 - till present

Work for various art schools, theatre projects; individual coaching