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#24: Starlet Pianist Olga Scheps Opens up on Passion, Motherhood, Honesty & Enemies

#24: Starlet Pianist Olga Scheps Opens up on Passion, Motherhood, Honesty & Enemies

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Starlet Pianist Olga Scheps Opens up on Passion, Motherhood,
Honesty & Enemies

more places

“If I can’t relate to music then I don’t play it, because
it’s like the chemistry between two people. You understand each
other or you don’t understand each other, and if you don’t, then
you can work on that – but… why?”

Olga Scheps is the face of modern classical music. Not only
is she a prolific pianist who has reached number 1 on the German
charts and released 9 CDs, she also has a massive social media
following and has helped bring a love of classical music to a
young generation.

I sat down with Olga in her studio in the heart of Cologne
to discuss her passion for the piano, how she recently became a
mother, why she values honesty and hence has enemies, the process
for recording albums and more.

Olga began playing piano at age 5. Born in Moscow, her
parents moved to Germany in 1992 where she studied at the Cologne
Academy of Music. She won the German musical competition Jugend
Musziert (Youth Makes Movement) in 1999 which led to her
performing at the Rheingau Music Festival followed by the Ruhr
Piano Festival, where she still performs.

Olga has been signed to Sony Classical since 2009 and has
just recorded her 9th album, made together with the Kuss
Quartett. She previously reached number 1 on the German charts
with her 2016 album, which featured Eric Satie. She also won the
ECHO award, in the category of “Young artist of the Year” for her
album “Chopin.” Her 2019 album “Melody” was nominated for two
Opus Klassik Awards.

Olga has worked with Arie Vardi, Dmitri Bashkirov, Andrei
Gavrilov and Alfred Brende and is advised by her former
professor, Prof. Pavel Gililov as well as her parents, who are
both pianists. She is also a member of the select group of
Steinway Artists.

Her repertoire is incredibly diverse. She performs not only
famous classics such as Bach and Tchaikovsky, but also songs by
modern musicians like the Aphex Twins and Ludovico Einaudi and
even Scooter songs such as Hyper Hyper.

You can read more about Olga on her website
olgascheps.com
Follow Olga on her Instagram here or on her Facebook
here

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