Oxana Shevchenko

Pianist Oxana Shevchenko has found success in the West, where she was partly trained, and in East Asia. She is visible as a chamber music performer as well as an orchestral soloist and recitalist. Shevchenko was born in Alma-Ata (now Almaty), Kazakhstan, then part of the Soviet Union, in 1987. She began music studies at age seven with Valentina Tartyshnyaya. At nine, she appeared with the Kazakh State Symphony Orchestra, and in 2004, she performed with the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra. At the Academic Music College in Kazakhstan, she earned a bachelor's degree, studying with Tatiana Rakova. Shevchenko moved to Moscow, earning a second bachelor's degree after studies with Elena Kuznetsova, and then to London for a master's program with Dmitri Alexeev. She rounded out her education with studies at the Haute École de Musique de Lausanne in Switzerland with Jean-François Antonioli and at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome with Benedetto Lupo. Shevchenko amassed an impressive list of prizes and honors, including third prize at the Sendai International Music Competition in Japan in 2007, plus a special prize for best interpretation of a 20th century concerto, third prize at the China Shanghai International Piano Competition in 2009, and a first prize and gold medal at the Scottish International Piano Competition in Glasgow in 2010. That victory led to Shevchenko's debut album, Oxana Shevchenko: Winner of the 2010 Scottish International Piano Competition, released on the Delphian label in 2011. She continued to rack up competition victories as her international career expanded. Shevchenko has appeared widely with orchestras in Europe (the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra) and in East Asia and Australia (the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, the Sendai Philharmonic in Japan, and the Wuhan Philharmonic in China). Shevchenko's recital credits include appearances at such prestigious venues as Wigmore Hall in London, the Royal Albert Hall, and the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory. In 2018, she recorded the complete piano works of Stravinsky on Delphian. An enthusiastic chamber player, Shevchenko has performed with such musicians as violinist Ray Chen, cellist Narek Hakhnazaryan, the Kopelman and Brodsky Quartets, and cellist Christoph Croisé. With the latter, she has recorded several albums, including 2023's 1883: R. Strauss, Grieg, Fauré.
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