Olga Kholodnaya

Olga Kholodnaya playing the Willemotte Stradivari.
Olga Kholodnaya playing the Willemotte Stradivari (1734) in Cremona, September 2015.

Olga Kholodnaya (Russian: Ольга Холодная) is a Russian violinist, composer, arranger and producer, born in Cheboksary, in the Soviet Union.

Biography

Born in Cheboksary,the capital of Chuvashia ex-Soviet Union, Olga Kholodnaya started studying the violin with the age of five.

2000-2007 Olga Kholodnaya studied since the age of 12 classical music at the Richard-Strauss-Konservatorium München with Marcus Wolf and Jakob Gilman. Olga Kholodnaya took part and attended various violin competitions, young talent festivals, Zakhar Bron masterclasses worldwide and played in youth orchestras like Bavarian Philharmonie, Junge Münchener Philharmoniker. She made Funk, Electro, House, Hiphop, Rock recordings since the age of 15. She started playing in the street with 14 and performed with a classical trio, quartet, solo and with Olga Show worldwide. In 2006 Olga Kholodnaya performed along with other strings for the World Cup Opening in Munich Allianz Arena with Toni Braxton and Il Divo.

2007 Olga Kholodnaya survived a heavy injury. After more than 12 surgical operations she had to learn to walk again. Since that she is disabled. She never gave up playing the violin despite the heavy health conditions. As soon as she could get up from the wheelchair she went to the pedestrian zone to play the violin for her listeners. Street music gave her the strength not to give up.

2010 Olga Kholodnaya has recovered enough from the injury consequences to continue where she was forced to stop. Today she is performing her show in high hills again. since 2012 Olga Kholodnaya is playing with Marino Colina , the drummer of Olga Show. Olga Show are pioneers of the music style "violin and drums" .

Four days after the 13 November 2015 attacks in Paris Olga performed in front of the Bataclan as a call for world peace and a tribute for all the victims of war around the world.[1][2][3][4]

References

  1. ↑ magazine, Le Point, (2015-11-17). "Attentats de Paris: Une violoniste russe se produit devant le Bataclan en hommage aux victimes". Le Point (in French). Retrieved 2016-05-19.
  2. ↑ ICI.Radio-Canada.ca, Zone International -. "Un air de violon et un café, pour résister | Attentats terroristes à Paris". Radio-Canada.ca (in French). Retrieved 2016-05-19.
  3. ↑ "PHOTOS - Un violoniste et un joueur de grosse caisse venus jouer devant le Bataclan - Hommages aux victimes de l'attentat terroriste du Bataclan à Paris le 16 novembre 2". www.purepeople.com. Retrieved 2016-05-19.
  4. ↑ "Attentats de Paris: Une violoniste se produit devant le Bataclan en hommage aux victimes". www.jolpress.com. Retrieved 2016-05-19.


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