Born in Almaty, Kazakhstan, pianist Oxana Shevchenko is internationally renowned for the intensity, elegance, and imagination of her playing. She initially studied in Kazakhstan and Moscow, and subsequently continued her training in Europe: with Dmitry Alexeev at the Royal College of Music in London, with Jean-François Antonioli at the Haute École de Musique in Lausanne, and with Benedetto Lupo at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome.

In 2010, she won First Prize at the Scottish International Piano Competition. Her debut CD on Delphian Records, featuring works by Shostakovich, Mozart, Liszt, and Ravel, was named Editor's Choice by Gramophone and described as "the most exciting debut disc to come my way for some time.".

Further international successes led her to competitions such as Busoni, Sydney, Sendai, Shanghai, Orbetello, Chappell, Sheepdrove, and the Premio Franz Liszt. Oxana Shevchenko made her orchestral debut at the age of nine with the Kazakh State Symphony Orchestra. Since then, she has performed with, among others, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre National de Lorraine, and the Sendai Philharmonic Orchestra.

She has worked with conductors such as Vladimir Ashkenazy, Yoel Levi, Martyn Brabbins, Ronald Corp, Pascal Verrot, Rumon Gamba, Gabriel Bebeșelea, Andrei Feher, and Valentin Uryupin. Concert appearances have taken her to major concert halls and festivals, including the Sydney Opera House, the Royal Festival Hall in London, Wigmore Hall, the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome, the Laeiszhalle Hamburg, the Tonhalle Zürich, the Lucerne Festival, the Istanbul Festival, and Palermo Classica.

A passionate chamber musician, she has performed with artists and ensembles such as the Kopelman Quartet, the Brodsky Quartet, Pavel Vernikov, Narek Hakhnazaryan, Christoph Croisé, Ray Chen, Isabel Villanueva, and Alena Baeva. Her more recent artistic projects also include a collaboration with double bassist Uxía Martínez Botana.

Oxana Shevchenko is currently pursuing her doctorate at the Conservatorio “Francesco Venezze” in Rovigo, Italy. Her research focuses on the piano and chamber music works of Alfredo Casella, as well as his years in Paris. This work inspires her current lecture-recitals and thematic concert programs.

PROGRAM:

Claude Debussy - Arabesque No. 1

Maurice Ravel - Sonatina

Erik Satie - Gymnopédie No. 1

Igor Stravinsky - Tango

Erik Satie - Gnossienne No. 1

George Gershwin - Three Preludes

Claude Debussy - Clair de lune

Alfredo Casella - In the manner of Ravel

Maurice Ravel - Pavane pour une infante defunte

Maurice Ravel - La Valse

Free admission – donations to benefit the artist

Duration approx. 90 minutes