Olga Jegunova

• Comment: The article does not show what is notable about her. See WP:MUSICIAN to see the criteria of notability for musicians. LaMona (talk) 22:15, 13 December 2015 (UTC)

• Comment: This is better and getting closer but still simply needs any more available in-depth third-party sources overall. Cheers, SwisterTwister talk 08:42, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

• Comment: Still not enough listed third-party sources. SwisterTwister talk 06:04, 17 November 2015 (UTC)

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Olga Jegunova, a classical pianist, born in Latvia, now living in London.

After studying music at Jazeps Vitols Latvian Music Academy she obtained her M.Mus at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg. This was followed by studying at the Royal College of Music (Artist Diploma course as an RCM scholar under Dmitri Alexeev) and then at the Royal Northern College of Music where her piano teacher was Norma Fisher.

Olga Jegunova has won many major international piano competitions. For example the Ginette Gaubert competition in Paris and the Steinway-Förderpreis in Hamburg.... She won the Steinway Award in 2008.

Olga Jegunova has taken part in numerous master classes with eminent pianists such as Andras Schiff at the Prussian Cove International Musicians Seminar an annual event, Ferenz Rados, Elisso Virsaladze, Mikhail Voskresensky, Benjamin Zander and Lazar Berman. As a soloist she has worked with conductors such as Saulius Sondeckis, Alexander Soddy, Andres Mustonen, Muhai Tang and Valery Ovsianikov, and appeared with ensembles and orchestras such as the Sinfonia Concertante, Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, Zürcher Kammerorchester, Pasdeloup Orchestra and Manchester Camerata.

Olga Jegunova is a Samling Artist. This scheme nurtures the artistic development of exceptional young singers and piano accompanists at the start of their careers. She was invited to take part as a pianist to accompany professional opera and lieder singers. In 2013 she took lessons with world famous opera singers such as Sir Thomas Allen and performed in the one of the most prestigious concert venues in the World : Sage Gatehouse . Those who take part in these masterclasses / concerts automatically become Samling scholars.

Her technical ability and thoughtful approach to playing has been praised as in this review of her recital at the Edinburgh International Festival. A recording of Olga Jeguova playing the Mozart Sonata No.11 in A major brought this comment, " I found this recording on YouTube and it's become my favorite recording of a Mozart piece", from someone who had downloaded the piece from Amazon. Some of her recordings are also available on Spotify and SoundCloud.

Olga Jegunova is interested in working with other artists including Alina Garcial-Puerta. Olga Jegunova was recruited to play the piano with the soprano Kirstin Sharpin to re-create the "Last Song" originally sung by Mercedes. She has also worked with the story teller Jan Blake to create the Peter and the Wolf performance for children. (at the French Institute London).

She played the piano in the "Noureev & Friends" concert performance in the Palais Des Congrès in Paris in 2013. Graham Watts the dance critic wrote in Dance Tabs that "Olga played the Liszt piano sonata having not performed for ballet before and if that is so, it was a mighty fine first attempt. At the dress rehearsal, she struggled with the dance tempo but it was certainly alright on the night!"

Olga Jegunova played for the Latvian Presidency's annual Burns Supper in Brussels. She also played before HRH Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands. More recently she has played at the Latvian Day Celebration Concert in the Westminster Cathedral Hall this year in the presence of the Latvian Ambassador, Andris Teikmanis and has been chosen to take part in the Baltic Stars Ensemble, a concert organised by the City Music Society of London.

Olga Jegunova was invited to work as a compare at this year's International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, where she interviewed Vadim Repin, violinist and member of the jury and Maxim Vengerov. She also broadcast live interviews with a series internationally renowned pianists at this competition. This Competition is classical-music competition held every four years in Moscow, Russia, for pianists, violinists, and cellists between 16 and 32 years of age, and singers between 19 and 32 years of age. This competition was streamed live over the Internet by Medici TV. Her work at the competition was referred to by James Jolly writing in the Gramophone Blog part of the Gramophone - the World's Best Classical Musical Review site.

In November 2014 BBC Arabic interviews Olga Jegunova about classical music and how it makes a difference to our humanity.

Since 2009, Olga Jegunova has worked as a performer for Live Music Now, a charity providing live music in the concert hall as well as in the welfare, educational, justice and health sectors. She teaches piano to students of Queen Mary London University.

On December 2, 2015 Olga Jegunova launched a charity called OlgaRythm which aims to support talented music students of any age and ability. This launch was reported in the Russian GAP online newspaper.

Olga Jegunova has been interviewed by the Russian language online newspaper, Chas, which is published in Latvia. This is a Google translation into English. In the Autumn edition of the magazine Russian GAP Olga Jegunova writes about her life as a classical pianist. The article will appear in the online version early in 2016. In the Winter edition of the magazine Russian GAP Olga Jegunova is in conversation with the famous concert pianist Denis Matsuev. Again this article will appear in the online version of Russian GAP.

External links

Olga Jegunova Official website

Olga Jegunova playing Mozart Piano Sonata No. 11 in A

Olga Jegunova and Jan Blake, Peter and the Wolf - Music and Storyteller, All about Piano Festival at the French Institute London, April 2014.

Olga Jegunova on Soundcloud - audio recordings.