Family Olga Scheps

• Edvard Grieg (1843 - 1907):
• 1 Grieg: Morning Mood Variation (Arr. for Piano from Peer Gynt Suite No.1, Op. 36 by Ketan & Vivan Bhatti) 02:33
• Chilly Gonzales (b. 1972):
• 2 Gonzales: Jeux De Maxim 02:08
• Joseph Haydn (1732 - 1809): Piano Sonata No. 50 in D Major, Hob. XVI:37:
• 3 Haydn: Piano Sonata No. 50 in D Major, Hob. XVI:37: I. Allegro con brio 05:40
• 4 Haydn: Piano Sonata No. 50 in D Major, Hob. XVI:37: II. Largo e sostenuto 03:52
• 5 Haydn: Piano Sonata No. 50 in D Major, Hob. XVI:37: III. Finale. Presto ma non troppo 03:06
• Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827):
• 6 Beethoven: Rage Over a Lost Penny, Op. 129 05:25
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791): Piano Sonata No. 16 in C Major, K. 545:
• 7 Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 16 in C Major, K. 545: I. Allegro 04:41
• 8 Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 16 in C Major, K. 545: II. Andante 05:21
• 9 Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 16 in C Major, K. 545: III. Rondo. Allegretto 01:15
• Ottorino Respighi (1879 - 1936):
• 10 Respighi: Siciliana (from "The Tree of Life", Arr. for Piano from Antiche Danze, Suite No. 3 by Ottorino Respighi) 02:54
• Thomas Newman (b. 1955):
• 11 Newman: Nemo Egg (from "Finding Nemo") 02:51
• Randy Newman (b. 1943):
• 12 Newman: When She Loved Me (from "Toy Story 2") 02:53
• Antonio Vivaldi (1678 - 1741):
• 13 Vivaldi: Four Seasons Variation (Arr. for Piano from Violin Concerto, RV 297, "Winter": II. Largo by Svetoslav Karparov) 02:01
• Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918):
• 14 Debussy: 2 Arabesques, CD 74/L.66: I. Andantino con moto 05:59
• Michael Giacchino (b. 1967):
• 15 Giacchino: Stuff We Did (from "Up") 02:12
• Henrik Oja (b. 1972) & Frida Johansson (b. 1970):
• 16 Oja, Johansson: Learning to Play (from "Unravel Two") 03:06
• Christopher von Deylen (b. 1970):
• 17 Deylen: Arco Iris 01:51
• James Horner (1953 - 2015):
• 18 Horner: I See You (from "Avatar") 04:37
• Jacob Shea & Hans Zimmer (b. 1957):
• 19 Shea, Zimmer: Family Theme (from "The Blue Planet") 02:35
• Total Runtime 01:05:00

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Olga Scheps began playing her first melodies and pieces aged just five years and learned to play the piano in the same was as she did speaking, walking and reading. In 1992, her family moved from Moscow to Germany, Olga Scheps’s new home. ​

The pianist is fluent in German, Russian and English. At the age of 16, she became a young student at the Cologne Academy of Music, graduating in 2013 with a distinction. Prof. Pavel Gililov and her parents – also both pianists and piano teachers – are still important advisers to this day. Olga Scheps also gained other important musical impulses from Arie Vardi, Dmitri Bashkirov, Andrei Gavrilov and Alfred Brendel. During her studies, she held a scholarship from the German foundation Musikleben. ​

Olga Scheps gave some of her first concerts as part of the “Jugend Musiziert” (Youngsters Make Music) prize winners’ concert. She was then invited to perform at several concert series and festivals, such as the Rheingau Music Festival, and all of these concerts were sensational successes. Soon after, she debuted at the Ruhr Piano Festival, which she also still regularly attends and performs at.

Since 2009, Olga Scheps has been exclusively signed to Sony Classical and has recently recorded her seventh album. This solo album, featuring works by Erik Satie, was released in may 2016 and reached the Nr. 1 in the official charts in Germany. For her album “Chopin”, Olga Scheps received the ECHO award, in the category “Young artist of the Year”. All the other albums have reached the top ten in the classical charts. Olga Scheps now lives in her adopted home of Cologne, traveling from there to classical music festivals and concert series in many different countries. She performs with worldwide leading orchestras and conductors.

Olga Scheps, piano

Olga Scheps
was born in Moscow in 1986, the daughter of two pianists, and discovered the instrument for herself at the age of four. She began studying the piano more intensively after her family moved to Germany in 1992. At an early age she had already developed her own unique style of keyboard playing, which combines intense emotiveness and powerful expressivity with extraordinary pianistic technique. Among those who discovered these talents was Alfred Brendel, who has encouraged Olga Scheps since she was fifteen. A holder of scholarships from the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben and Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, she completed her studies with Professor Pavel Gililov in her adopted home of Cologne in 2013, paasing her Concert Examination with Distinction. She rounded out her training with Professor Arie Vardi and Professor Dmitri Bashkirov.

Olga Scheps's principal repertory consists of Classical and Romantic composers; she is a highly individual interpreter of works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Frédéric Chopin, Felix Mendelssohn, Franz Schubert, Franz Liszt, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Nikolai Medtner, and Edvard Grieg. At the same time she has a particular interest in compositions that are seldom heard in the concert hall, including the posthumous Études of Chopin, Liszt’s rarely performed Malédiction, Olivier Messiaen's Les Oiseaux exotiques, Antonin Dvorak's Piano Concerto, and pieces by Anatoly Lyadov.

Her solo recitals are as popular with audiences all over the world as her acclaimed appearances as soloist with orchestra and her chamber projects.

Such noted conductors as Yakov Kreutzberg, Thomas Dausgaard, Lorin Maazel, José Serebrier, Marcus Bosch, Ralf Weikert, Michel Tabachnik, Antoni Wit, Ivor Bolton, and Christoph Altstedt have invited Olga Scheps to collaborate with them.

Among the leading orchestras with which she has appeared in concert are the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, the Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the State Symphony Cappella of Russia (Moscow), the Staatskapelle Weimar, the Zurich Chamber Orchestra, and the NDR Radiophilharmonie.

Olga Scheps now performs with great success in world-famous concert halls such as the Berlin Philharmonie, the Vienna Konzerthaus, and the Zurich Tonhalle. She is a sought-after guest at festivals like the Rheingau Musik Festival, the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the Kissinger Sommer, the Heidelberger Frühling, the Klavierfestival Ruhr, the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, the Sommerliche Musiktagen Hitzacker, the Mersin Festival in Turkey, and the Menuhin Festival Gstaad.

A passionate chamber musician, she plays regularly with such artists as Alban Gerhardt, Daniel Hope, Adrian Brendel, Jan Vogler, and Nils Mönkemeyer.

Highlights of the 2014/15 season include tours with solo recitals to Korea, Japan, and Israel as well as a tour with the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse under the baton of Tugan Sukhiev in Germany. In addition, Olga Scheps will make her debuts with the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra of Welsh National Opera, the Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, and in Cadogan Hall, London, with the Stuttgarter Kammerorchester. She has also received return invitations from the Rheingau Musik Festival, the Berliner Philharmonie and the Kölner Philharmonie.

Since 2010 Olga Scheps has been an exclusive Sony Classical artist. Her debut album 'Chopin' immediately won an ECHO Klassik award. The two recordings that followed, 'Russian Album' (2010) and 'Schubert' (2012) were also highly praised by the press. Her fourth Sony Classical CD was released early in 2014 and features Chopin's Piano Concertos nos. 1 and 2 with the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra.

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