Olga Shishkina
Duo Exceptionnel: From Baroque to Contemporary – Gusli and Piano recital
Sat 19 October
The Churchill College Chapel
Olga Shishkina is an accomplished music professional with over 20 years of experience on the international music scene as a gusli and kantele artist. She performs, teaches, arranges, composes and does studio recording.
Olga performed in some of the best venues in Russia and beyond: Conservatoire Rachmaninoff and Maison russe des sciences et de la culture à Paris (Paris, France), Trinity Episcopal Church and Legacy Art Gallery (Santa Barbara, California), Mariinsky Concert Hall (St Petersburg, Russia), His Majesty Theatre (Aberdeen, Scotland), Royal Swedish Opera (Stockholm, Sweden) and others.
She performed at the Cambridge Summer Music Festival in 2004 where she played together in a duo with Nicholas Collon, the principal conductor of Aurora Orchestra. In 2005 she was invited to perform in Cambridge, again, at the Russian Music Festival organised by Clare College.
Olga’s performing repertoire spans from early Baroque and classical music to impressionism which are her own transcriptions and compositions. Please visit Olga’s page on YouTube.
Cost: £15
Enquiries and booking
Please note that booking is required for this event.
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Venue
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1. B. Pasquini. Toccata con lo Scherzo Del Cucco 2. A. Vivaldi. Le Printemps, the 1st movement 3. H.F. Handel. Sonata ? 6 E Major for violin and piano 4. L.V. Beethoven. 12 variations on a Russian theme in A Major for piano 5. K. Shakhanov. Lullaby 6. Y. Yocoh. Sakura: theme and variations on the Japanese folk song 7. C. Debussy. Estampes. L.100: “I. Pagodes” 8. I’m sitting on a little stone, a traditional Russian folk song 9. Greensleeves, a traditional English folk song A Newe Northen Dittye of ye Ladye Greene Sleves 10. N. Rimsky-Korsakov. Dance of the Tumblers from “The Snow Maiden” 11. A. Shalov. Hey, rock, Semyon! 12. V. Tikhov. Ural Mountain Dance |
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