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Olena Zhukova - pianist and harpsicord player

Born 1982 Ukraine

Olena Zhukova, Ukrainian pianist
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Education

2009 Ph.D. Thesis Francis Poulenc piano music in the background of French keyboard traditions
2004 - 2007 Post-graduate course: piano class under Professor Igor Ryabov and Professor Valeriy Kozlov, National Music Academy of Ukraine
1999 - 2004 Piano class under Professor Igor Ryabov, harpsichord class under Professor Svitlana Shabaltina, National Music Academy of Ukraine
1987 - 1999 Piano class under Irina Lipatova, Kyiv Specialised music school named after M. Lysenko
1995 - 1999 Musicology department, Kyiv Specialised music school named after M. Lysenko

Artistic Activity

2008 First Prize and Audience Prize of International competition Three centuries of classical romance (Russia, Saint-Petersburg).
  First harpsichord Festival Cembalissimo (Hungary, Budapest).
2006 Third Prize of International competition of young performers ХХІ-century art (Ukraine, Kiev, Vorzel).
2003 First Prize of International competition of young performers ХХІ-century art (Ukraine, Kiev, Vorzel).
2000 Diploma of the best accompanist of Second international competition of performers on the wind instruments named after D. Bida (Ukraine, Lviv).
1995 Diploma of Russian youth competition of chamber ensembles (Russia, Novomoskovsk).
Member of Ukrainian Association of Pianists - laureates of international competitions.

Participant of XV. Internationaler Johann-Sebastian-Bach-Wettbewerb (Leipzig, 4.-15. Juli 2006), Music competition Musica Antiqua (Brugge, 25 July – 1 August 2007)

1987 - 2009 Concert appearances in Ukraine, Russia, Poland, Germany, France, Norway, master-courses of harpsichord and piano playing with Frederic Aguessy, Mikhail Arkadiev, Philippe Bianconi, Berngard Billiter, Teresa Dusso, Philippe Entremont, Alexis Galperin, Bernd Goetzke, Jay Gottlieb, Ketil Haugsand, Wladislaw Klosewicz, Noel Lee, Diana Ligeti, Christopher Stambridge, Marek Toporovski, Elzbeta Stefanska, Michel Ulmann, Aline Zylberajch and others


Current repertoire

Olena's repertoire contains numerous piano and harpsichord parts (continuo) of world chamber music repertoire, piano and harpsichord parts (continuo) of orchestral repertoire, accompaniments of classical opera arias, European, Russian and Ukrainian romances, Folk songs;

Harpsichord solo pieces by Bach, Frescobaldi, L. and F. Couperins, Rameau, Handel and others;

Piano solo pieces by Debussy, Chopin and others.

Has performed numerous piano and harpsichord concerts as solo-player and also as accompanist and member of ensemble, chamber or symphonic orchestra with the main musical collectives of city of Kiev. Took part in Music Festivals and at opera staging (among them The Coffee-cantata of J.-S. Bach in National Opera of Ukraine).
 
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