The winner of International and All-Russian competitions Olga Shishkina (gusli) & Olga Elbourn (piano)
WHEN: Saturday 19 October 2024 at 19:00
WHERE: The Chapel at Churchill College Storey’s Way Cambridge CB3 0DE
FORMAT: in person
TICKETS: £15 (Standard), £10 (CamRuSS Members, students and concessions)
Olga Shishkina is an accomplished music professional with over 20 years of experience on
the international music scene as a gusli and kantele artist. She performs, teaches, arranges, composes and does studio recording.
Olga performed in some of the best venues in Russia and Europe: Conservatoire Rachmaninoff (Paris, France), La Maison russe des sciences et de la culture à Paris (Paris, France), Trinity Episcopal Church and Legacy Art Gallery (Santa Barbara, California), Mariinsky Concert Hall (St Petersburg, Russia), His Majesty's Theatre (Aberdeen, Scotland), Royal Swedish Opera (Stockholm, Sweden), and others.
She performed at the Cambridge Summer Music Festival in 2004 where she played together in a duo with Nicholas Collon the principal conductor of Aurora Orchestra. In 2005 she was invited to perform in Cambridge, again, at the Russian Music Festival organised by Clare College.
During the last few years she has been invited by the leading names of the music industry to
participate in soundtrack recording projects (“Moscow Noir” Sweden 2018, “Torchlight 3”
USA 2020). Composed music for the Finnish documentary “To Siberia with My Love” (dir. P.
Flinckenberg 2017).
Olga graduated summa cum laude from St. Petersburg Conservatory named after N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov where she studied gusli, piano, organ, and orchestral conducting (2008). Later, in 2012, she pursued
postgraduate studies at Sibelius Academy (Helsinki, Finland). In 2022 she graduated with the
highest grade from Berklee College of Music (Boston, Massachusetts).
Olga’s performing repertoire spans from early baroque and classical music to impressionism which are
her own transcriptions as well as her compositions for the movie.
Please check Olga’s page on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/olgagusli)
PROGRAMME
1. B. Pasquini. Toccata con lo Scherzo Del Cucco.
2. A. Vivaldi. Le Printemps 1st movement.
3. H. Handel. Sonata Nr 6 E-major for violin and piano.
4. L.V. Beethoven. 12 variations on a Russian theme for piano.
5. K. Shakhanov. Lullaby.
6. Y. Yocoh. Sakura: Theme and Variations.
7. C. Debussy. Estampes: “I - Pagodes”
8. I’m sitting on a little stone, a traditional Russian song
9. Greensleeves, a traditional English folk song
10. N. Rimsky-Korsakov. Dance of the Tumblers from “Snow Maiden”.
11. A. Shalov. Hey rock Semyon!
12. V. Tikhov. Ural Dance.
* All material arranged for gusli and piano by O. Shishkina except Nr 5, 10, 11, 12.
Event Venue
The Chapel at Churchill College, Churchill College, Storey’s Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DE , United Kingdom
GBP 10.00 to GBP 20.00
