Oksana Sidyagina
1990
Harpist
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Oksana – harpist-soloist, teacher, the soloist of famous Russian orchestra without a conductor “Persimfans».
Since 2021, he has been teaching at the Sergei Rachmaninoff Conservatory of Paris.
With classical programs for solo harp Oksana has performed on the stages of Zaryadye Moscow Concert Hall, Moscow Philharmonic and Moscow Conservatory, Mariinsky Concert Hall, Brucknerhaus Linz in Austria, St. Petersburg House of Music and the St. Petersburg State Academic chapels, as well as in many other concert halls in France, Italy, Germany, Israel, Croatia, Slovakia, Thailand and other countries.
She has graduated from Moscow P.I. Tchaikovsky Conservatory with bachelor and master diploma (class of the professor Emilia Moskvitina). During those years she was regularly taking part in the master-classes of famous harpists, as Emmanuel Ceysson, Sivan Magen, Florence Sitruk, Irina Donskaya-Tischenko, Andrew Lawrence-King and others.
Oksana has won 5 first prizes on the international harp competitions in Italy, France and Russia.
Also during the other years she was awarded:
- 2nd prize (1st prize not awarded) and the prize for the best performance of the commission piece on the I International Harp Competition “Glowing Harp” (Kharkiv, Ukraine, 2017)
- special prize “For the Most Inspired and Artistic Performance” from the chairperson of the jury Maxim Shostakovich on the II National Music Competition of Russia (Moscow, Russia, 2016)
- 1st prize on the eMuse Competition (Athens, Greece, 2014)
- Moscow Prefect Award “Young talents of the XXI century” (Moscow, Russia, 2008)
Oksana has established herself both as a virtuoso soloist of academical style and as a contemporary performer in avant-garde circles.
She has performed on such a prestigious harp festivals as:
- Suoni d’Arpa” in 2018 in Italy
- “Rencontres Internationales de la Harpe en Île-de-France” in 2019 in France
- “Svetlanov crazy-weekend” (Moscow, 2018)
- “Pro Musica” (Bangkok, 2016)
- “The pictures from the exhibition” (Nizny Novgorod, 2017)
- “The white nights of Karelia” (Petrozavodsk, 2019) and others.
In 2014 Oksana became a soloist of the St. Petersburg House of Music, representing leading young Russian musicians in our country and abroad.
The sphere of contemporary art is also the one which Oksana works actively in. She has collaborated with such well-known performers and curators as Ragnar Kjartansson, Katya Bochavar, David Thorn Jonsson, Venera Kazarova, Arina Zvereva, as well as the famous V-A-C Foundation.
On the list of Russian and world premieres she has played there is music for harp by Raymond Murray-Schaefer, Salvatore Sharrino, Benoit Vary, Sergei Nevsky, Jeremy Siochi, Gustavo Leone, Alexei Sergunin and others,
Oksana is actively involved in teaching – during different years she was invited to give master-classes at Royal Conservatory of Madrid, Saint-Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory, Zagreb Music Academy and other institutions. She has worked as a jury member on the international music competitions in Russia and France.
In 2019 she became a co-organizer and professor of the first Summer Harp Academy in Russia.
