Olga Kozlova (russian: Ольга Козлова; born 1986 in
Penza
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,
Russia
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) is a Russian pianist. She graduated from the ''Moscow Special Gnesin's School of Music'' in 2004 and is currently studying at the
Moscow Conservatory
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.
"Olga Kozlova"
Dublin International Piano Competition, accessed September 27, 2011.
She made it to the 2005 Frédéric Chopin International Piano Competition semi-finals, and has subsequently been awarded 2nd prizes at the 2008 Premio Jaén and Ricard Viñes competitions. Her discographical debut was a recording of Franz Liszt
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's Sonata
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coupled with Leo Weiner
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's orchestral arrangement of the work.
On 9 April 2011 Olga Kozlova was awarded the Second Prize and the Press Prize of the 9th International Franz Liszt Piano Competition in Utrecht, The Netherlands.
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References
El País
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, April 2008
Liszt School of Music Weimar
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Concurs de Piano Ricard Viñes, Lleida
External links
Olga's official website
Russian classical pianists
Russian women pianists
Living people
21st-century classical pianists
1986 births
Women classical pianists
21st-century women pianists
Moscow Conservatory alumni
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