Olga Virezoub

Who is Olga Virezoub?

Olga Virezoub is a Russian-German composer, music producer, pianist and musicologist.

Olga Virezoub was born into a family of musicians. She grew up in an artistic and theatric atmosphere of theater musicians, and, yet being a child, she often traveled with her parents across the whole Soviet Union and several times acted in the guest performances of their theater in the children's roles. She then began to learn piano in the Samarian music college and parallel to this took composition lessons in Samara. Starting from 1994, she travelled to St. Petersburg, where, upon a recommendation of her aunt, she the began to study piano and composition with the Russian composer and virtuoso pianist Georgy Firtich at the Herzen University of St. Petersburg from 1995 to 1997, who introduced her to his colleagues and friends, became her most important mentor and influenced her strongly as a composer. Equally, following her aunt´s advice, she then studied at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, where she obtained her main formal education in composition with Sergey Slonimsky and Vladimir Tsytovich from 1996 to 2000.