Olga Pashchenko

Olga Pashchenko, vincitrice nel 2012 del Premio Ferrari – International Fortepiano Competition, in questo sesto appuntamento affianca la Sonata n. 26, nata in seguito alla partenza da Vienna dell’Arciduca Rodolfo durante l’occupazione delle truppe francesi nel 1809 e chiamata appunto Les Adieux, alle ultime e misteriose Sonate n. 30, 31 e 32.

Accademia del fortepiano
Ludwig van Beethoven: 35 sonatas in 8 concerts on original instruments
First Italian performance of the whole cycle thanks to the support of Fondazione Carlo Marchi and Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze

Program

Ludwig van Beethoven
Sonata in E-flat major op. 81a Les adieux
Sonata in E major op. 109
Sonata in A-flat major op. 110
Sonata in C minor op. 111

(fortepiano Wilhelm Lange)

OLGA PASHCHENKO
Born in Moscow in 1986, Olga began her musical studies when she was six years old. She was a laureate at the all-Russian Young Pianists Competition at the age of seven and she entered the Moscow Special Gnessin Music School, where she graduated with honors in 2005. She won a scholar- ship by the Russian Performance Art Fund and was a laureate at the International Gnessin Young Artists Competition and the International Beethoven Festival of Chamber Music. She continued her studies at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory with Alexei Lubimov (fortepiano and modern piano), Olga Martynova (harpsichord) and Alexei Schmitov (organ), and graduated with honors in 2010. Meantime, she graduated in linguistics at the Moscow State University. Olga was a postgraduate at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory with Alexei Lubimov (historical keyboards) and Konstantin Zenkin (on the interpretation of music for 15th to 19th century keyboards). She has studied fortepiano and harpsichord with Richard Egarr at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam, where she received her master degree ‘cum laude’ in fortepiano in 2013 and in harpsichord in 2014.