Olga Kiun

pianist

Russia/Brazil

www.olgakiun.com

Participou como Diretora Artística do
I Concurso Internacional de Piano de Santa Catarina

Descendent from a family of musicians, the pianist Olga Kiun started its piano studies when she was 6 years old, with her mother and grandmother, both teachers at the Musical Conservatory of Chisineu (Moldavia).

At 17, she entered the Tchaikovsky Conservatory, in Moscow, in the class of the renowned pianist and professor Lev Oborin. As a student at the Conservatory, she received a prize at the International Competition George Enescu, in Romania.

After graduating with honors from the Conservatory – highest grades in all the subjects – , she went to Leningrad (today known as Saint Petersburg), where she got her doctor’s degree under the supervision of Pavel Serebriakov.

After finishing her doctor’s studies, she joined “Mosconcert”, a state artistic society, with which she performed several recitals, concerts with orchestra and recordings for the radio and television for the ex-USSR. After one of those concerts, the newspaper “Daguestánskaia Pravda” wrote: “When Olga plays, it seems like it’s not the piano that sounds, but a rich human voice that whispers something extremely personal.”

Throughout her career, she performed in several countries, such as Romania, Bulgaria, Poland, Uruguay, Paraguay and Peru. In Brazil, she performed for the first time in Curitiba, in 1991. At that time, Gazeta do Povo wrote: “Olga Kiun shows an immeasurable musicality and an emotional and passionate way of playing, necessary for an artist who specializes in the romantic repertoire (…) one of the best pianists that have been in this country”.

In Brazil, she has performed as a soloist with the most famous symphonics of the country, such as the State of Paraná Symphony Orchestra, Porto Alegre Symphony Orchestra, São Paulo Municipal Symphony Orchestra, New Philharmonic Orchestra (São Paulo), Campinas Symphony Orchestra, Camerata Antiqua of Curitiba, São Paulo Symphony Orchestra and Brazilian Symphony Orchestra, working with maestros such as Alceo Bocchino, Benito Juarez, Paulo Torres, Adriano Machado, Roberto Duarte, Lutero Rodrigues, Osvaldo Colarusso, Roberto Minczuk, among others.

Since 1993 she has taught at School of Music and Fine Arts of Paraná (EMBAP), in Curitiba, where she has formed a generation of pianists who are active in the Brazilian and international musical panorama. Besides, her pedagogical activities include participations as guest teacher in music festivals all over the country.