Oxana Shevchenko

Oxana Shevchenko (born May 30, 1987, Almaty) is a Kazakh classical pianist and the 2010 winner of the Scottish International Piano Competition. She has performed with various orchestras and has been active as a soloist, chamber musician, and collaborative pianist.

Early life and education Shevchenko studied at the Republican Special Music School for Gifted Children in Almaty under Valentina Tartyshnaya. She later attended the Moscow Conservatory Music College, where she studied with Tatiana Rakova, before earning a degree from the Moscow Conservatory under Elena Kuznetsova

She continued her studies at the Royal College of Music in London with Dmitri Alexeev, supported by the Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust. She later pursued further training at the Haute École de Musique de Lausanne with Jean-François Antonioli and at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome under Benedetto Lupo .

Career

Shevchenko made her solo debut at the age of 9 with the State Symphony Orchestra of Kazakhstan. Over the years, she has collaborated with renowned orchestras, including the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, NorrlandsOperan, and the Arena di Verona Orchestra. She has performed under conductors such as Vladimir Ashkenazy , Rumon Gamba, Yoel Levi, Ronald Corp, and Martyn Brabbins .

She has performed in venues such as the Royal Festival Hall, Wigmore Hall, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Saint Petersburg Philharmonic, Sydney Opera House, Doge's Palace, Genoa , Teatro Filarmonico, Konzerthaus Berlin, Palau de la Música de València, and the Atatürk Cultural Center. Shevchenko has also participated in major festivals, including the Lucerne Festival, Sion Festival , Istanbul Festival, and the Newbury Spring Festival .

Her recordings and interviews have been broadcast by major radio and television channels such as BBC Radio 3 , Radio Orpheus, Rai 3, Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen , and TVR Cultural.

Chamber music As a chamber musician, Shevchenko has collaborated with renowned ensembles and musicians, including the Kopelman Quartet, Brodsky Quartet, Christoph Croisé, Narek Hakhnazaryan , and Andrei Baranov.

Recordings Debut Album (2011), Delphian Records Featuring works by Shostakovich, Mozart, Liszt, and Ravel. Stravinsky: Complete Works for Solo Piano (2017), Delphian Records Aloÿse Fornerod Portrait with HEMU Symphony Orchestra and Emmanuel Siffert, Claves Records Visions (2015) with Christoph Croisé, QUARTZ Joachim Raff: Complete Works for Cello and Piano (2022) with Christoph Croisé; Avie Records Voyage Exotique (2023) with Christoph Croisé; Avie Records 1883 (2023) with Christoph Croisé; Avie Records

Awards and honours + List of Awards Year Award Country Category ResultRef 2005 International Balys Dvarionas Competition Lithuania 2007 Sendai International Music Competition JapanBest Performance of the XX Century Concerto Third 2009 Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition ItalyInternational Music Critics' Prize FourthBest Performance of Busoni's Work 2009 Shanghai International Piano Competition China Third 2010 Scottish International Piano Competition United Kingdom 2010 Tchaikovsky International Competition RussiaBest Collaborative Pianist 2015 International Piano Competition Franz Liszt Italy 2016 Salieri-Zinetti International Competition Italy 2016 Sydney International Piano Competition AustraliaChamber Music Fifth 2017 Orbetello International Piano Competition Italy 2019 Khachaturian International Competition Armenia Second 2020 International Piano Competition Luciano Luciani Italy 2021 Isidor Bajić Piano Memorial Serbia 2022 Verona International Piano Competition Italy