Olga Monakh, a pianist “endowed with a strong artistic personality and a rich imagination.”—Mitteldeutsche Zeitung

German pianist of Ukrainian origin, Olga Monakh has established herself as an artist with phenomenal charisma, equally at home in solo repertoire as well as in lied and chamber music.

Olga Monakh completed brilliant musical studies in her hometown of Kharkov at the Special Music School for Child Prodigies. At the age of 10 she gave her first recital and won several national competitions.

In 2001 she joined the prestigious class of Klaus Hellwig at the Berlin University of the Arts, where she obtained her Soloist Diploma with the highest distinctions, then joined the famous Konzertexamen class.

Laureate of the Hindemith Foundations, Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now, Ottilie Selbach in Germany, supported by the Musical Academy of Villecroze, Olga Monakh had also from an early age some remarkable success in international competitions:

2nd Prize, Schnabel Competition in Berlin (2002), laureate of the Porto competition (2003), Third Prize at the Vianna da Motta competition in Lisbon (2004), the First Prize not being awarded. At the Vlado Perlemuter competition in Caen, she won the 2nd prize as well as the Audience Prize (2009), bestowed on her unanimously by the hundreds of people in the audience!

She has performed with the Gulbenkian Orchestra of Lisbon under the direction of Oleg Soldatov, the Sinfonia Varsovia under Peter Csaba, Wiener-Concertverein under Yoel Gamzou, and with the Kharkov and Wernigerode Philharmonic Orchestras.

She is a regular guest of concert series in France, Switzerland, Germany, Italy and has been playing in festivals such as Mosel Festwochen, Rheingau Musik Festival, Weseler Klaviersommer and Europäisches Klassik Festival Ruhr in Germany, Kyoto International Music Festival in Japan, Il concerto in Trieste in Italy, Ciclo Premiar a Exelencia in Oeiros and at the Teatro Sao Luis in Lisbon.

She has been heard in prestigious venues such as the Philharmonie and Konzerthaus in Berlin, Musikverein in Vienna, Tonhalle in Düsseldorf, and Teatro Sao Luiz in Lisbon.

Together with the pianist Nicolas Bringuier, they have been playing for twenty years as a piano duo and gave numerous concerts across Europe and Asia. In 2021, the duo took the name Duo Siloti.

Since 2012 Olga and Nicolas have been artistic directors of the “Rencontres musicales du Negresco” in Nice, an annual chamber music festival.