OLGA PASHCHENKO

- - harpsichordist, pianist, fortepianist, organist.

Olga Pashchenko is a young artist who has already established a reputation as a versatile performer with her own individual style of performance notable for sensitiveness toward different musical styles, virtuosity, wealth of color and special approach to each instrument she plays.

Olga Pashchenko was born in 1986 in . She began her musical studies at the age of six in the Children’s Myaskovski Music School in the piano class of Sofia Genis. 1993 became laureate of the All-Russian Young Pianists’Competition. In 1993 Olga entered the Moscow Special Gnessin Music School where she studied piano with Tatiana Zelikman and harpsichord with Olga Martynova. She gave her first piano recital in New York at the age of 9. In 2002 was granted the scholarship of the fund “Russian Performance Art”. In 2003 became laureate of the Third International Gnessin Young Artists Competition and the Third International Beethoven Festival of Chamber Music.. In 2005 Olga Pashchenko graduated with honors from the Gnessin School and entered the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory. 2010 she graduated with honors from two departments of the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory - Department of Historical and Modern Art Performance where she studied with professor (piano), Olga Martynova (harpsichord, ), and Organ Department – class of Alexei Shmitov. In 2010 Olga Pashchenko has entered the postgraduate studies of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory – class of professor Alexei Lubimov

2005 – laureate of the Moscow Festival 2006 – winner of the International Piano Competition in Carinthia (Austria) 2007 – laureate (Second prize) of the First Moscow N.L.Bidloo Organ Competition – winner of the All-Russian Harpsichord Competition in Saint-Petersburg 2008 – winner of the International Organ Competition Soli Deo Gloria (Moscow) 2009 – laureate (Second prize) of the X International Festival-Competition of Organ Music (Saint-Petersburg) 2009 – winner of the All-Russian competition “Young talents of ” in the nomination of music art 2010 – laureate of the First International Volkonsky Harpsichord Competition in Moscow (Second prize and Special Prize for the best performance of the Russian harpsichord piece – Fandango by Ivan Pratsch) 2010 – laureate (Second prize) of the Oude Muziek Competition in in the fortepiano nomination

Olga Pashchenko has attended master classes led by Bart van Oort, Bob van Asperen, Trevor Pinnock, Malcolm Bilson, Davitt Moroney, Andreas Staier, Christine Schornsheim, Ludger Lohmann, Christopher Stembridge and others.

Olga Pashchenko performs regularly as harpsichordist, pianist, organist and fortepianist in various concert halls in Moscow and other cities of Russia, Belarus, Italy, USA, Austria, Belgium, France, Germany; took part in different festivals such as Seiler Festival (Germany) 2005, Poeke Fortepiano Festival (Belgium) 2006, Karlsruhe (Germany) 2009, – Project of the Harvard University Centre for Renaissance Studies at Villa I Tatti (Italy) 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, Utrecht Oude Muziek Festival (Holland) 2010. The repertoire of the artist embraces music from 16th to 21st century and includes solo music, chamber music and also concertos with orchestra.