Harpsichordist Olga Filippova has received double education at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory - first as a musicologist under Professor Yuri N. Kholopov and then as a performer on historical keyboard instruments under Professor Olga Martynova. After graduation, she also took a postgraduate course in musicology at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory and in harpsichord under Prof. Wolfgang Glüxam at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.As a historical keyboards' player she trained at numerous international workshops including those by Jasper Christensen, Andreas Staier, Patrick Ayrton, Christopher Stembridge, Maria Leonhardt, Rachel Podger, Davitt Moroney, Kris Verhelst, Bart van Oort and many more. She was a participant and prize winner of a number of International competitions, and in 2011 she received in ensemble with Maria Grokhotova (baroque violin) R. Weichlein Prize for the advancement of Austrian baroque music at one of the most significant early music competitions - Biber International Competition in St Florian, Austria.Olga Filippova cooperates extensively with a number of Russian and European groups such as Moscow Baroque, Orpharion, Catherine the Great Orchestra, Musica Antiqua St. Peterburg, Musica Petropolitana, Zefiro, Pratum Integrum etc. Her concert performances were broadcasted by Russian TV and radio companies as well as by Austrian radio and radio of The Netherlands, and she released a CD «Favorites of the Baroque».She played in concerts together with Alfredo Bernardini, Bob van Asperen, Alexei Lubimov, Alberto and Paolo Grazzi, Andrey Reshetin, Dmitry Sinkovsky, Paul Esswood, Steven Wallace, Simone Kermes, Carlos Mena, Deborah York. Her international festival appearances include, among others, Russian «Moscow Forum», Festivals in Potsdam, Utrecht, Premio Bonporti Festival, J. S. Bach Music Festivals in Riga and chamber music festivals in Croatia.Professor Olga Filippova currently teaches harpsichord, basso continuo and historical chamber ensemble at The Gnesin Russian Academy of Music and The Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory's Department of historical and contemporary performance.
