Olga Scheps

Olga Scheps, daughter of Ukrainian pianists, born in Russia and living in her adopted home of Germany since 1992, represents great sound culture, intense expressiveness and a gift for storytelling. She discovered the piano at the age of 4 and was encouraged early on by piano greats such as Alfred Brendel. Renowned conductors such as Thomas Dausgaard, Lorin Maazel, José Serebrier, Marcus Bosch, Tugan Sokhiev, Simone Young, Markus Poschner and Pablo Heras-Casado invited Olga Scheps to collaborate with renowned orchestras such as the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the Russian State Orchestra Moscow, the Staatskapelle Weimar, the Zurich Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse and the Prague Philharmonia.

Olga Scheps has performed to great acclaim in world-famous concert halls such as the Philharmonie Berlin, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Cologne Philharmonie, Alte Oper Frankfurt, Tonhalle Zurich, Tonhalle Düsseldorf, Cadogan Hall London, Suntory Hall Tokyo and the Vienna Konzerthaus. She is a sought-after guest at renowned festivals in Germany and Switzerland and loves to play in chamber music ensembles. She is an exclusive Sony Classical artist. Her debut album Chopin won an ECHO Klassik award in 2009. This was followed by the recordings Russian Album (2010), Schubert (2012), Vocalise (2015) and a recording of Chopin’s Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 with the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra. In 2021, she released Family. This album combines famous classical works with new piano arrangements of well-known melodies and soundtracks, as well as previously unreleased compositions by Schiller (Christopher von Deylen), Chilly Gonzales and Olga Scheps herself. She is an official Steinway Artist since 2013.

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