Olga Scheps

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Olga Scheps on November 11, 2012 during the anniversary ceremony "50 years of culture at Audi"

Olga Scheps (born January 4, 1986 in Moscow ) is a Russian pianist living in Cologne .

Life

Olga Scheps is the younger daughter of the pianist and university teacher Ilja Scheps and the piano teacher Tamara Scheps. The family moved to Wuppertal in 1992. At the age of five, Olga Scheps received her first piano lessons, in 1999 she won the national youth music competition and in 2001 the youth plays classical music competition .

While still at school, she began her piano studies in 1999, initially as a young student in the piano class of Vassily Lobanov , and since 2006 in the master class of Pavel Gililov at the Cologne University of Music and Dance . Further studies led her to Arie Vardi and Dmitri Baschkirow .

Alfred Brendel discovered Scheps when she was 15 years old and encouraged her. It was supported by the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben from 2001 and from 2006 by the German National Academic Foundation with a scholarship . In 2014 she completed her studies at the Cologne University of Music and completed her concert exam with Pavel Gililov.

At the age of 14 years and before her studies she made her debut in the concert series Young Elite with the Piano Concerto No. 1 by Prokofiev in the Düsseldorf Tonhalle . Since her debut at the Ruhr Piano Festival in 2007, she has performed at the Rheingau Music Festival , the Ruhr Piano Festival, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival , the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Festival , the Kissinger Sommer , the Heidelberger Frühling , the Lucerne Festival , the Hitzacker Summer Music Days , the Moselle Music Festival , the Menuhin Festival in Gstaad , the Kreuth International Music Festival, the Iberico Festival in Spain, the Mersin Festival in Turkey and the “Zaubersee” festival in Lucerne .

Scheps works with well-known orchestras and plays mainly in Europe and Asia. She has been invited to collaborate by the following conductors, among others: Yakov Kreizberg , Thomas Dausgaard , Lorin Maazel , Tugan Sokhiev , José Serebrier , Marcus Bosch , Ralf Weikert , Michel Tabachnik , Antoni Wit , Ivor Bolton and Christoph Altstaedt . In 2012 she made her solo debut in the Cologne Philharmonic . This was followed by concerts with, among others, the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra of the Russian State Orchestra Moscow , the Amadeus Chamber Orchestra of Polish Radio , the Orchestra national du Capitole de Toulouse , the Estonian National Orchestra and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra . In addition to her work as a soloist Scheps also acts in chamber music and works with artists such as Andrei Bielow, Daniel Hope , Erik Schumann, Adrian Brendel , Alban Gerhardt , Jan Vogler , Nils Mönkemeyer and ensembles such as the Kuss Quartet , the Danel Quartet and the Danish String Quartet together .

Scheps has a varied repertoire, but she is particularly dedicated to the works of Russian composers and compositions by Frédéric Chopin . Seldom performed works such as the concerto for piano and string orchestra "Malédiction" by Franz Liszt and works by Olivier Messiaen and Anatolij Ljadov are also part of their program.

Numerous television stations reported on them and showed recordings of their concerts; In 2017 the WDR made a documentary about her under the direction of Marion Ammicht. Scheps was a guest on television programs such as " TV Total ", "Helge has time" with Helge Schneider , "Kleine Nachtmusik" with Götz Alsmann , the Cologne meeting point , DAS! Rote Sofa, the ZDF morning magazine and the program “ Klein gegen Groß ”.

Scheps lives with her partner and her son in Cologne.

Recordings

After Scheps had previously been heard on a CD recording from the Ruhr Piano Festival in 2009, she released her first two solo CDs in 2010 on RCA Red Seal (Sony Music) . In 2010 she received the ECHO Klassik 2010 for her debut CD “Chopin” together with Alice Sara Ott as “best young artist of the year (piano)”. Another solo album with works by Russian composers followed in the autumn of the same year. Her next CD, "Schubert", was released in August 2012 by RCA Red Seal (Sony Music). Then she released another album with the two piano concertos by Frederic Chopin at Sony Classical in 2014 together with the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra.

Discography

Awards

Web links

Commons : Olga Scheps  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Olga Schep's biography. Sony Music Entertainment , accessed September 30, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Soloist portrait of Olga Scheps. Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben, accessed on September 30, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Christoph Zimmermann: Recommendation for more. KlassikInfo.de, February 12, 2012, accessed September 30, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Olga Scheps inspires with flawless play. (No longer available online.) June Artists Management GmbH, archived from the original on October 1, 2017 ; accessed on September 30, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.june-artists.de
  5. ↑ Christoph Zimmermann: The carpet layer. KlassikInfo.de, October 18, 2012, accessed September 30, 2017 .
  6. ^ David Krenz: Prima donna at the piano. Spiegel Online , July 8, 2013, accessed September 30, 2017 .
  7. ↑ The pianist Olga Scheps. Deutschlandfunk , September 19, 2015, accessed on September 30, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Mieczysław Weinberg: Piano Quintet op.18 Communication on rbb-kultur from November 19, 2019.
  9. ↑ Olga Scheps in the artist wiki
  10. ↑ Archive link to the ECHO winners 2010 ( Memento from April 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Scheps, Olga
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian pianist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th January 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow