September, 2016:
June 27, 2016:
Volumes Three & Four of Complete Anatoly Lyadov Piano Works are released by Northern Flowers label (distributed by Alto). Volume 4 contains few pieces and sketches, never recorded before.
Thus, Olga Solovieva completed the project started in far 2004.
Now the series is the mostly complete set of Anatoly Lyadov's works composed for one pianist.
And very important is that Olga Solovieva is the pianist of Russian piano school tradition: her Professor at the Gnessins Academy was Leonid Blok, the pupil of Alexander Goldenweiser (who was the pupil of Alexander Ziloti, close friend of Lyadov).
May 4 & 11, 2016:
In May 2016 Olga Solovieva participated at the 27th Lyadov Festival in Borovichi.
On May 4th she played the programme with outstanding cellist Alexander Rudin: Cello Sonata by Sergey Rachmaninov, Cello Sonata No.1 by Nikolay Myaskovsky, and pieces by Anatoly Lydov and his father, Konstantin Lyadov.
On May 11th there was a meeting at Borovich Museum, to commemorate Lyadov's 161st anniversary. Olga played few piano pieces by Anatoly Lyadov on the Lyadov's piano from toft Polynovka [At the toft Polynovka - which now is a part of Borovichi city - the major part of Lyadov's legacy was created. Here he spent all summers, and here he died on August 1914].
March 28, 2016:
On 28th of March 2016 Olga Solovieva played the recital at the Grand Hall of the Gnessin College to commemorate 135th anniversary of great Russian composer Nikolay Myaskovsky. Olga played two Myaskovsky's works: Sonata for Cello and Piano No.1 (with Fyodor Amosov) and "Twelve Poems of Mikhail Lermontov" (with mezzo-soprano Natalia Zimina), the soloist of the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Musical Theater). Also Cello Sonata of Sergey Rachmaninov was performed.
March 13, 2016:
On 13 March 2016 Olga Solovieva particiapated at the concert to the memory of outstanding composer Karen Khachaturian (1920-2011). Olga played the pieces of his teachers: "Four Pieces" for violin and piano of Vissarion Shebalin (with Sergey Kostylev), and Sonata for Cello and Piano No.1 of Nikolay Myaskovsky (with Fyodor Amosov). Also the Fourth String Quartet by Shostakovich and Sonata for Violin and Piano by Karen Khachaturian were played by other musicians.
February 2016:
New CD with the music of Boris Tchaikovsky is issued on the label Grand Piano. There are two pieces in Olga Solovieva's performance - Sonata for Two Pianos (with Dmitry Korostelyov) and Violin Sonata (with Marina Dichenko).
News / Новости
Статья к 95-летию Б.А. Чайковского
В девятом номере «Музыкального журнала» за 2020 год
опубликована статья Ю.Б. Абдокова "Борис Чайковский: свобода и одиночество", посвящённая 95-летию со дня рождения крупнейшего русского композитора XX столетия. В своей статье профессор МГК им.
П.И. Чайковского упоминает и Ольгу Соловьёву: "Замечательно ведь и то, что для этих и других музыкантов (достаточно вспомнить блистательную пианистку Ольгу Соловьёву в серии безупречных сольных и
ансамблевых записей опусов Б. Чайковского) имя
и музыка Бориса Чайковского – это не «фестивальный идол», к которому обращаешься лишь в знаменательные дни. Нет, это живая
духовная реальность".
Полностью статья о Б.А. Чайковском доступна по ссылке.
First Prize Winner of Grand Prize Virtuoso
Olga Solovieva was declared as the First Prize Winner of the International Music Competition Paris "Grand Prize Virtuoso" (in Senior category) for the performance with Alexey Stanchinsky's Piano Sonata Es-moll.
Silver Medal of the Global Music Awards
Olga Solovieva was declared among the Winners of the Global Music Awards: she received the Silver medal (outstanding achievement) in 'instrumentalist' and 'album' nominations. This high award was given for the CD with Vol. 1 of complete Alexey Stanchinsky's piano works was issued by Grand Piano label (GP766).
Concert at Elena Obraztsova Culture Center (St. Petersburg)
On December 7, 2019 the
Olga Solovieva played the concert at Elena Obraztsova
Culture Center. The Cello Sonatas by Sergey Rachmaninov and Yuri Kochurov were performed with the cellist Dmitrii Khrychev. Also the presentation of the 19th Century Cello Music CD took
place.
7 декабря в Культурном Центре Е. Образцовой (г. С.-Петербург) состоялся концерт с участием Дмитрия Хрычёва (виолончель) и Ольги Соловьёвой (фортепиано). Прозвучали Сонаты для виолончели и фортепиано С.В. Рахманинова, Ю.В. Кочурова. Также состоялась презентация выпущенного летом компанией Naxos компакт-диска с русской музыкой 19-го века для виолончели, были исполнены пьесы А.С. Аренского из этого диска.
"Lermontov in Music" (Russian National Library)
On
November 13, 2019 the lecture-concert "Lermontov in
Music" took place at the Russian National Library Concert Hall (St. Petersburg). The romances by Nikolay Myaskovsky were performed by Elizaveta Pakhomova (soprano) with Olga Solovieva (piano).
13 ноября в Концертом зале РНБ состоялась лекция-концерт "Лермонтов в музыке". Романсы Н.Я. Мясковского были исполнены Елизаветой Пахомовой (сопрано) и Ольгой Соловьёвой.
