Piano Accompanist Mastery Department

Olga Makeeva

Position: Associate Professor of the Piano Accompaniment Department
Education: Belarusian State Academy of Music (2012, piano class by V.V.Shatskiy), Master Degree (2013) under the guidance of V.V.Shatskiy, I.Ya.Sikorskiy
Courses taught: Piano Accompaniment class, Piano Accompaniment Practise, Reading from sheets and transposition


 

She was born on June 28, 1987 in Brest (Republic of Belarus).

She works at the Belarusian State Academy of Music since 2000 – Accompanist at the Orchestral Conducting Department. Since 2013 until 2015 – teacher of the Special Piano Department, since 2015 – teacher of the Piano Accompanist Department, since 2019 – Senior teacher, 2020 – Master-level Accompanist. She gives lectures on Piano Accompanist skills for students of the Professional Development and Staff Retraining Faculty.

 

As an Accompanist, she took part in master classes conducted by Dmitry Liss (Russia), Vladimir Simkin (Russia), Felix Korobov (Russia), Luke Pfaff (Switzerland), Alpaslan Ertyungealp (Hungary), Arkady Berin (Germany) and others.

She was an Accompanist of the International Master Class by Maestro Alpaslan Ertyungealp “In Memory of Claudio Abbado” (19-23.01.2015, Adana, Turkey), where she also took part as a conductor.

She leads an active concert life. The performances of the pianist are regularly held in the concert halls of Minsk: the Belarusian State Philharmonic Society, the Belarusian State Academy of Music. In 2013 at The National Auditorium of Music (Madrid, Spain), Palace of Catalan Music (Barcelona, Spain) held concerts.

She repeatedly performed as a soloist with the symphony orchestra of the Brest Theater of Drama and Music, the symphony orchestra of the Gomel Philharmonic Society, the symphony orchestra of the Belarusian State Academy of Music. She actively collaborates with the chamber orchestra of the Belarusian State Academy of Music as a soloist, harpsichordist and conductor.

She is Laureate and Diploma Winer of Republican and International Competitions. Scholarship holder of the Special Fund of the President of the Republic of Belarus for the support of talented youth (2007).

Author (co-author), organizer and presenter of the Evening in memory of Prof. V. V. Shatsky “The Poet of the Piano” (2014), Evenings in memory of Associate Professor S. O. Belkevich (on the occasion of his 90th birthday) “Against the minnows in winter, I do not choose to grow old …” (2019). Among the pupils are laureates of international competitions, accompanists and teachers of music schools, colleges, Belarusian State Institute of Culture, the Belarusian State Academy of Music, artists of regional philharmonic societies.

She is the author of scientific publications.

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