➤ FOLK IN CLASSIC
N 26.08 kl 19:00 / Mustpeade maja Valge saal
Olga Sheleshkova (UA)
/ violin
Born in Kyiv, Olga Sheleshkova began to study the violin at the age of six in Kiev music school. Entered the Kiev State Music College named after R.M. Glier in the class of teacher Leonid Shukhman. After graduating from the College with honors studied at the National Academy of Music of Ukraine named after P.I.Tchaikovsky in the class of Prof. Bogodar Kotorovich (assistants Igor Pilatyuk, Tamara Mukhina). After receiving Bachelor's and then Master's degree (both with honors), continued studies as postgraduate student, after which worked as a teacher in the violin class at Music Academy of Ukraine named after Tchaikovsky in 2004-2005.
Olga participated in master classes of such violinists as Midory, G. Hoffman, F. Aliev, A. Barakhovskiy, L. Goldstein, V. Sokolov, I.Korol and others. Since 1998 till 2019 she worked in the chamber ensemble "Kyiv Soloists", since 2016 as concertmaster of the orchestra.
Olga is participant in numerous festivals in Ukraine and abroad. She played in various chamber ensembles with such musicians as Gerard Causse, Marchin Senyavsky, Valery Sokolov. I regularly performs as a soloist with orchestra. In 2019 together with two colleagues Olga created the Kyiv Mozart Orchestra and a string quartet (Kiev Mozart Quartet).
She had been the concertmaster and artistic director of this orchestra and the first violin of the Kiev Mozart Quartet. 9 months after its founding, orchestra made its debut at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.
Unfortunately, the covid epidemic has postponed orchestra touring activities. But the orchestra continued to actively regularly give concerts in Ukraine until the outbreak of the war on February 24, 2022. Kiev Mozart Quartet also actively developed.
Quartet performed in the best halls in Kyiv, participated in various festivals in Ukraine, collaborated with famous musicians (Valery Sokolov, Anthony Baryshevsky), took master classes, quartet was supervised by Sergey Bresler, a violinist from the Jerusalem Quartet. Since 2020 Olga have been teaching violin at the college of the Municipal Academy of Music named after Glier.