WASHINGTON, July 15 (RIA Novosti) – The prize-winning Ukrainian husband and wife piano duo of Olga Sherbakova and Yuri Sherbakov will perform at the 25th Chicago Duo Piano Festival July 19, it has been announced.
Performing as the “Oleyura Duo,” the Odessa natives are former 1st prize winners at the Rome International Competition for Piano Duos in both two piano and piano, four hands categories. They have also performed internationally in Venice, San Francisco, Moscow and Tel Aviv.
Professors at Odessa State Academy of Music, the piano duo are also the founders and directors of their own international piano duo and chamber music festivals “Crimea Dialogues” and “Odessa Dialogues,” according to a press release.
Sherbakov and Sherbakova will perform a program of Ukrainian composers, Greig and Rachmaninoff's Suite No. 1 for Two Pianos at the Nichols Concert Hall in Chicago on Friday.
