Olga Kotlyarova
She won prizes of the following competitions: the first prize at the National Piano Competition in Memory of Pavel Serebryakov (Volgograd, 1996), the second prize at the Chamber Music Competition in Memory of Ludwig van Beethoven (St.-Petersburg, 2000), the first prize at the Grant Competition "The Muses of St. Petersburg" (St.-Petersburg, 2003), the first and the second prizes at the International Competition "Hopes, talents, masters" as a pianist and an organist (Bulgaria, 2003), the special prize "The Hope of Mother Country" at the International Organ Competition in Memory of M. Tariverdiev (Kaliningrad, 2003), the first prize at the Emmanuel Durlet International Piano Competition (Belgium, 2005) and the second prize at the International Competition "Austria Barock Akademie" as an organist and a harpsichordist (Austria, 2005).
She performed with numerous orchestras under baton of such conductors as S. Skripka (Moscow), E. Serov (Volgograd), A. Gura (Voronezh), A. Shteinluht (Saint-Petersburg), A. Anisimov (France), M. KaLok (Australia) and E. Korkmaz (Turkey). She is also interested in contemporary music. She became a first performer of pieces by F. Huber (Switserland), Sh. Noa (Israel), V. Goryanin (Russia) and others.
The pianist regularly gives solo recitals in Russia and abroad. She played at such famous concert halls as Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, deSingel in Antwerp, Riga Dome in Riga, the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow and the Philharmonic Halls in St. Petersburg.
Since 2007 Olga Kotlyarova is a member of the "Union of Concert Artists of Russia" and the soloist of "Petersburg-Concert".
Andrea Durlet, Ekaterina Iliycheva