Biography
Pianist Oxana Shevchenko has built a thriving career both in Western countries where part of her training took place and across East Asia, appearing regularly as a recitalist, orchestral soloist, and chamber musician.
Born in 1987 in Alma-Ata (now Almaty), Kazakhstan, then within the Soviet Union, she started piano lessons at seven under Valentina Tartyshnyaya. At nine she made her debut with the Kazakh State Symphony Orchestra, followed in 2004 by a performance with the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra. She completed a bachelor’s degree at Kazakhstan’s Academic Music College in the class of Tatiana Rakova, then moved to Moscow for a second bachelor’s degree with Elena Kuznetsova. Further studies took her to London, where she earned a master’s degree under Dmitri Alexeev, and onward to the Haute École de Musique de Lausanne in Switzerland with Jean-François Antonioli and the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome with Benedetto Lupo.
Her competition record includes third prize at the 2007 Sendai International Music Competition in Japan, where she also received the special prize for best interpretation of a 20th-century concerto; third prize at the 2009 China Shanghai International Piano Competition; and first prize together with the gold medal at the 2010 Scottish International Piano Competition in Glasgow. That last triumph resulted in her debut recording, Oxana Shevchenko: Winner of the 2010 Scottish International Piano Competition, issued by Delphian in 2011. Additional competition successes accompanied the growth of her international profile.
She has performed with orchestras throughout Europe, among them the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, and the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, and has also appeared with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Japan’s Sendai Philharmonic, and China’s Wuhan Philharmonic. Recital engagements have taken her to Wigmore Hall in London, the Royal Albert Hall, and the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory. In 2018 she recorded Stravinsky’s complete piano works for Delphian. An active chamber musician, she has collaborated with violinist Ray Chen, cellist Narek Hakhnazaryan, the Kopelman and Brodsky Quartets, and cellist Christoph Croisé; several albums with Croisé have appeared, among them the 2023 release 1883: R. Strauss, Grieg, Fauré.
Born in 1987 in Alma-Ata (now Almaty), Kazakhstan, then within the Soviet Union, she started piano lessons at seven under Valentina Tartyshnyaya. At nine she made her debut with the Kazakh State Symphony Orchestra, followed in 2004 by a performance with the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra. She completed a bachelor’s degree at Kazakhstan’s Academic Music College in the class of Tatiana Rakova, then moved to Moscow for a second bachelor’s degree with Elena Kuznetsova. Further studies took her to London, where she earned a master’s degree under Dmitri Alexeev, and onward to the Haute École de Musique de Lausanne in Switzerland with Jean-François Antonioli and the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome with Benedetto Lupo.
Her competition record includes third prize at the 2007 Sendai International Music Competition in Japan, where she also received the special prize for best interpretation of a 20th-century concerto; third prize at the 2009 China Shanghai International Piano Competition; and first prize together with the gold medal at the 2010 Scottish International Piano Competition in Glasgow. That last triumph resulted in her debut recording, Oxana Shevchenko: Winner of the 2010 Scottish International Piano Competition, issued by Delphian in 2011. Additional competition successes accompanied the growth of her international profile.
She has performed with orchestras throughout Europe, among them the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, and the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, and has also appeared with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Japan’s Sendai Philharmonic, and China’s Wuhan Philharmonic. Recital engagements have taken her to Wigmore Hall in London, the Royal Albert Hall, and the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory. In 2018 she recorded Stravinsky’s complete piano works for Delphian. An active chamber musician, she has collaborated with violinist Ray Chen, cellist Narek Hakhnazaryan, the Kopelman and Brodsky Quartets, and cellist Christoph Croisé; several albums with Croisé have appeared, among them the 2023 release 1883: R. Strauss, Grieg, Fauré.
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