Biography

Latvian pianist Olga Jegunova was born in 1984. She moved to London after obtaining her BMus degree at The Jazeps Vitols Latvian Music academy with Prof. Sergejs Osokins and her MMus degree at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg with Prof.Volker Banfield. In 2010, with the support from Yehudi Menuhin LIVE MUSIC NOW Hamburg, Olga graduated from the Royal College of Music’s Artist Diploma course as an RCM scholar, having been a student of Prof. Dmitri Alexeev. In 2011 Olgas also graduated from the Royal Northern College of Music where her piano teacher was Norma Fisher.

Olga has participated in master classes with Andras Schiff, Vera Gornostayeva, Igor Zhukov, Lazar Berman, Elena Richter, Eugene Pridonoff, Emanuel Krassovsky, Mikhail Voskresensky, Dmitri Bashkirov and Eliso Virsaladze. As a soloist she has collaborated with conductors such as Saulius Sondeckis, Normunds Vaicis, Andris Vecumnieks, Alexander Soddy, Muhai Tang, Andres Mustonen and Gergely Madaras. As soloist Olga has appeared with the Sinfonia Concertante, Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, Hamburg Youth Orchestra, Zürcher Kammerorchester and Manchester Camerata.

Olga has won first prize in numerous international piano competitions including the Ginette Gaubert competition in Paris and the Steinway-Folderpreis in Hamburg. She has been a prize winner at the Maryse Cheilan competition in France, the Stasys Vainiunas competition in Vilnius, the Animato competition in Zurich, and was recently a semi-finalist at the prestigious Geza Anda Concours in Zurich.

She has participated in festivals including the Liepaja Star Festival in Latvia, the J.S. Bach Festival in Riga, the Young Artists Festival organised by the Vladimir Spivakov foundation in Riga and Moscow, the L.van Beethoven Festival “Kasseler Musiktage” in Germany, the Deal Festival, the Chilingirian Schumann Fest in London, International Musicians Seminar Prussia Cove and Contemporary Music Festival "Sounds New".

Olga is also very active as a chamber musician, having collaborated with a wide range of artists and ensembles as a pianist, harpsichordist and fortepiano player. Since 2009, she has worked as a performer for LIVE MUSIC NOW; a charity providing live music in the UK's welfare, educational, justice and health sectors.

Since January 2011 Olga acts as Artistic advisor of  Chamber Music in Little Venice in London.

At the moment Olga has in use fantastic Yamaha G2 grand piano kindly provided by Peter Smith and sons.