Olga Pashchenko, born in 1986, is a Russian harpsichordist, forte pianist, organist, and pianist. Her intense executive career brought her, beside many cities in her home country, to Byelorussia, Italy, the USA, Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, and the Netherlands. She also won some important international competitions.

Pashchenko was born in Moscow and began to play piano when she was only six years old. She entered the Gnessin School of Moscow when she was seven, and, at the age of nine years old, she performed her first piano recital in New York City. After graduating from the Gnessin School with full marks, she entered the State Conservatory Tchaikovsky of Moscow, where she studied piano with Alexei Lubimov, harpsichord and fortepiano with Olga Martynova, and organ with Alexei Shmitov, and from where she graduated in 2010. In 2011 she began her studies with Richard Egarr, at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, in fortepiano and harpsichord. She graduated on both instruments cum laude, respectively in 2013 and 2014.

She performed in some of Europe’s most prestigious festivals and locations, such as the Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht in the Netherlands, the Beethoven-Haus in Germany, the Zaubersee Russian Music Festival in Switzerland, Leipziger Chopin-Tage and Seiler Festival in Germany, Sankt Gallen Festival in Austria, International Piano Festival Saint Petersburg and the series of modern music concerts “Skazochnye stranstviya” in Russia, and the Accademia del Ricercare, the Soli Deo Gloria Festival, and the Mostra Fortepiano Bergamo in Italy.

Her playing style has been defined by the press as “not only technical, but also musically of the highest quality,” “imaginative and disturbing,” and has been applauded with words like “what an individuality, what a pianist purosangue.” The CD of her debut, called “Transitions,” with music of Dussek, Beethoven, and Mendelssohn, has been published in 2013 by the Belgian editor Outhere for the brand Fuga Libera. Also, it has been selected as recording of the month on Music Web, and has received a great acknowledgement from the French magazine “Télérama.” Her second CD, with sonatas and variations of Beethoven, has been recorded in Paris in May, 2014, and published later that same year for Alpha.