Today marks the official first day of summer – a season to relax, play, and catch up on practicing! Olga loves sharing the teaching she gives to her students at Manhattan School of Music, and you can find much needed summer practice motivation from teaching videos such as the one below and others on her Facebook page, here.
Olga will be jetting off to Italy for a solo recital including varied works by Schumann, Gershwin, Rachmaninov, Scriabin, and Balakirev on June 26. For tickets and more information, click here.
On May 16th, Olga and the Dali Quartet closed the coffee concert series of the Virginia Arts Festival, of which Olga was recently named chamber music series director. According to John Shulson of The Virginia Gazette, “They offered a big sound and big rewards in coordinated, extremely artistic, and panoramic sounds that brought the crowd to its feet in spontaneous applause.” To read the complete review, click here.