Piano
Biography:
"Brilliant piano playing, musical temperament and rich expression of the pianist Olga Chelova were acclaimed by the Paris audience."
(Affiche Musicale DR Ignatov, Paris, January 23, 2020)
»This young pianist is a cut diamond. She is a promising young artist.«
(Emden newspaper)
»... it was interesting, impressive and exciting how sensitively this exceptional young pianist did justice to the composer and his time. The gentlest pianissimo blended with the rustling of the trees outside…”
(East Frisian newspaper)
»... she played gently, lightly and yet lightning fast and captivated with artistic maturity and vital performance.«
(Rhein newspaper)
The pianist Olga Chelova is one of the most promising artists of the new generation of pianists. Born in Odessa, she started playing the piano at the age of four. As a highly gifted piano student, she was accepted at the famous Stolyarsky Music School, where artists such as Emil Gilels and David Oistrakh have been trained. While she was still studying at this special school, she was the youngest participant in the International Chopin Competition in the Ukraine and received a special prize for the exceptional performance of one nocturne by Chopin. The jury president called Olga Chelova “a poet at the piano”.
After graduating from high school, she was taught at the Academy for Music, Theater and Media in Hanover, the training ground for the international piano elite. She deepened her education in postgraduate studies for piano soloists at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg. Already during her studies she received awards at several international competitions as well as numerous music awards, special prizes and scholarships. Due to her special achievements and her commitment, Olga Chelova has received scholarships from numerous institutions: Anna Ruths Foundation, Ottilie Selbach Redslob Foundation, Bernbeck Foundation, YAMAHA Germany Scholarship, "Music Needs Friends" scholarship and the Studienstiftung at the HMTMH, Hanover. She was also a scholarship holder and prizewinner at the Summer Academy Mozarteum Salzburg.
As a soloist she has been a guest at various international music festivals and has performed on important stages in Europe. Olga Chelova has been a »Young Steinway Artist« since 2016. In 2019 she received the »International Funding for Highly Talented Artists« from the Ernst Ludwig Studienwerk (ELES) in Berlin. As a laureate of this institution, she moved to Paris, where she received important musical impulses from Maestro Philippe Entremont received and played together with this legendary pianist and conductor. In 2021 she was a prize winner as a pianist and composer at the international competition "Le Temps, paradoxe & illusion - Tremplin jeunes talents contemporains" and then performed with great success on the most important stages in Paris.
Albums:
Kreisleriana – Grandes études de Paganini – 16 waltzes (four hands):
