OLGA YANOVICH, violinist, music director and founder of the Washington Youth Chamber Orchestra, studied at the Moscow Gnessin Music Institute with Boris Goldstein and Vladimir Spivakov.

After completing her post-graduate course at the Leningrad Conservatory, Ms. Yanovich toured the former USSR and Europe extensively as a member of an award-winning string quartet and a soloist. Olga Yanovich has performed at the Gewandhaus Hall in Leipzig, Schauschpiel Hall in Berlin, Moscow Conservatory Grand and Chamber halls, Grand State Pillar Hall in Moscow, as well as in Leningrad, Rome, Prague, Helsinki and other European cities.

Her participation in music festivals includes festivals in Germany, Finland, Lithuania, Italy, International Music Festival in Moscow, Kuhmo, Erevan, Rome, Music Seminars and master classes in Prague and Normandy (France). Ms. Yanovich made many recordings of chamber and solo works for the Moscow Radio.

Since moving to the USA, Olga Yanovich performed wide range of music from Bach and Mozart to Schnittke concertos with orchestras. Her performance of Prokofiev concerto was broadcast on TV and received high acclaim from the press. The violinist’s solo appearances included DAR Constitution Hall, Kennedy Center Terrace Theater, Warner Theater, The Smithsonian, and the N. Roerich Museum in New York. She also performed at European music Festivals and went back to Russia for concerts and recording sessions.

In 2000 Olga Yanovich had her CD with Mendelssohn’s double concerto released on a Newport Classics label. She has been the Artistic Director of the Mount Vernon Music Festival, and from year 2000 – a faculty member and performer at the Soesterberg Festival in the Netherlands, Sulzbach – Rosenberg Festival in Germany,  Amati Festival in Catskills, NY.

Dr. Yanovich is very active in the teaching field, many of her students joined major music schools in the USA and Europe, becoming professional musicians.

She is a founder and a music director of the Washington Youth Chamber Orchestra.

Her chamber music collaboration included names like pianists B.Tchaikovsky, I. Zhukov, M. Kollontay, S. Milstein, M. Mogilevsky, B. Ganz, violinists Jody Gatwood, Boris Kushnir and Nikolaj Znaider.

CD: Mendelssohn Double Concerto with Sergei Milstein, piano and Moscow Symphony Orchestra. Click to Purchase