Olga Pashchenko Explained

Background:person
Olga Pashchenko
Native Name:Ольга Пащенко
Native Name Lang:ru
Birth Place:Moscow, Russia
Genre:Classical
Occupation:Instrumentalist
Years Active:1995–present
Label:Fuga Libera

Olga Pashchenko (Russian: Ольга Пащенко; born 1986) is a Russian harpsichordist, fortepianist, organist and pianist who has performed in concert halls in Moscow and other cities of Russia, Belarus, Italy, United States, Austria, Belgium, France, Germany and the Netherlands and has won several major international competitions.

Biography

Pashchenko was born in Moscow and started playing the piano at the age of six. She entered the Gnessin School in Moscow at the age of seven and gave her first piano recital in New York City at the age of nine.[1] After graduating from the Gnessin School with honors she entered the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory, where she studied with Alexei Lubimov (piano), Olga Martynova (harpsichord and fortepiano), and Alexei Shmitov (organ) and graduated in 2010. In 2011 she began studies with Richard Egarr at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam on both fortepiano and harpsichord and she graduated in 2013 and 2014 respectively, with the highest honors on both instruments (excellent, cum laude).

She has performed at festivals and venues around Europe, including the Festival Oude Muziek in the Netherlands,[2] the Beethoven-Haus in Germany, Zaubersee Russian Music Festival in Switzerland,[3] Leipziger Chopin-Tage and Seiler Festival in Germany, Sankt Gallen Festival in Austria, International Piano Festival Saint Petersburg and concert series of modern music “Skazochnye stranstviya” Moscow [4] in Russia, Accademia del Ricercare,Soli Deo Gloria Festival, and the Mostra Fortepiano Bergamo in Italy.

Her playing has been described as "not only technical, but also musically of the highest quality",[5] "imaginative and haunting" [6] and as "a pianistic thoroughbred."[7]

Her debut CD, Transitions, with music by Dussek, Beethoven, and Mendelssohn was released in 2013 by the Belgian publisher Outhere on the label Fuga Libera, which got selected as the recording of the month on MusicWeb[8] and got a ffff (highest award) from the French magazine Télérama.[9] Her second CD, featuring sonatas and variations by Beethoven, was recorded in Paris in May 2014, and released later that year, on the Alpha label.

Prizes

Her awards include:

Notes and References

  1. Web site: About . August 7, 2014 . Olga Paschenko.
  2. Web site: Kerk . Lutherse . 30 Aug 2014 . Olga Pashchenko . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150402132909/http://oudemuziek.nl/musici/olga-pashchenko/ . April 2, 2015 . June 8, 2014 . OudeMuziek.
  3. Web site: Mozart und Salieri . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140427175559/http://www.zaubersee.ch/programm-3/ . April 27, 2014 . June 8, 2014 . Zaubersee.
  4. Web site: Абонемент № 23. Сказочные странствия Эстония . mosconsv.ru. June 8, 2014.
  5. Web site: 14 Aug 2012 . Frauenpower in der Bergkirche Klaus Pianistin Olga Pashchenko virtuos . June 5, 2014 . Nachrichten . de.
  6. Web site: Reinhart . Brian . Review Recording of the Month. Transitions . June 5, 2014 . MusicWeb International .
  7. Web site: 20 Feb 2013 . Olga Pashchenko . dead . https://archive.today/20140831142551/http://www.volkskrant.nl/vk/nl/2844/Archief/archief/article/detail/3396744/2013/02/20/Olga-Pashchenko.dhtml . 2014-08-31 . April 29, 2021 . Volkskrant.nl . nl.
  8. Web site: MusicWeb Recording of the Month.. April 27, 2014.
  9. Web site: Pour enregistrer son récital, Olga Pashchenko a choisi deux pianoforte du XIXe siècle. Un délice . telerama.fr . April 27, 2014.
  10. Web site: Prize winners 2014 in the category harpsichord. https://archive.today/20140831142550/http://www.bachwettbewerbleipzig.de/en/bach-competition/prize-winners-2014-category-harpsichord. dead. August 31, 2014. Internationaler Bach-Wettbewerb Leipzig.. August 5, 2014.
  11. Web site: Young Bach Award. Premio Circulo Bach.. April 27, 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140718143831/http://www.circulobach.com/premio-joven-bach-young-bach-award/. July 18, 2014. dead.
  12. Web site: And the winner is...,. . premioferrari.wordpress.com . April 29, 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130813041915/https://premioferrari.wordpress.com/2012/11/04/and-the-winner-is/ . 2013-08-13 . dead.
  13. Web site: De Russische Olga Pashchenhko was publieksfavoriet en won de publieksprijs . Cobra.be . April 29, 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180112215039/http://cobra.canvas.be/cm/cobra/muziek/1.1395467 . 2018-01-12 . dead.
  14. Web site: Die Preisträger des 1. Internationalen Hans-von-Bülow-Klavierwettbewerbs, Juli 2012.. buelow-wettbewerb-meiningen.de. June 13, 2014. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20140924045110/http://www.buelow-wettbewerb-meiningen.de/archiv_2012_de/?News:Die_Preistr%26auml%3Bger_2012. September 24, 2014.

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