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3 unusual facts about Olga Virezoub


Olga Virezoub

As a piano performer, she was engaged in over 30 first performances of her own as well as contemporary chamber music works by European and American composers as, for instance, "Senzapatria Sempiterno" by the German composer Anton Plate for the concert and award of the honorary doctor title onto Helmut Lachenmann in 2001 in Hannover.

Olga Virezoub is a winner of several prizes and scholarships, including the Künstlerhaus Cismar fellowship from the Ministry of Education and Culture Schleswig-Holstein in Grömitz, Germany 2004, and was distinguished for her work in Europe and the USA, for instance, as the "IMRadio featured artist" in Chicago, 2010 and the NUMBER ONE music featured artist and top 1 artist in the genres of experimental and jazz music in New York in 2012.

In 2001 - 2003 she completed the graduate program in composition and also piano at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover and in 2003 received a scholarship to participate in the master classes for contemporary and jazz music with Alvin Lucier, Tristan Murail, Christian Wolff, Frederic Rzewski and Roscoe Mitchell, among others.



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