After making her debut as a soloist on the stage of the National Opera House in Minsk at the age of eight, Olga’s first foreign concert followed up soon at the Music Academy in Bialostok, Poland. Since then she has given numerous performances at the most important halls in Belarus and played in Poland, Germany, Russia, Croatia, Italy, Slovenia, the UK and Spain and in October 2007 she made her New York debut at Carnegie Hall. In 2008 and 2009 she participated in Encuentro de Musica y Academia de Santander in Spain and also played solo and chamber concerts at Palacio de Festivales de Cantabria, collaborating with such artists as violinist Peter Cropper (Lindsay Quartet) and cellist Ivan Monighetti. She has broadcasted frequently on Belarus national radio and television.

    Olga Stezhko was born in Minsk, Belarus. She started to play the piano at the age of five and entered the Republican Music College in Minsk a year later. She studied there with the famous Belarusian pianists Oleg Krimer and Evgeny Pukst, graduating with distinction. In 2002 she was awarded one of only a handful of scholarships to study at the United World College of the Adriatic in Italy, where her teachers were Alberto Miodini and the legendary Trio di Trieste. In 2004 she came to the Royal Academy of Music in London on a scholarship, graduating with 1st Class Honours in 2008. She completed an MMus at the RAM with distinction and all piano prizes in 2010, studying under Ian Fountain, supported by the RAM and some of the most prestigious UK scholarships such as the Myra Hess Award from the Musicians' Benevolent Fund and Philharmonia Orchestra/Martin Musical Scholarship Fund as well as Mr Massimo Prelz Oltramonti.

   Olga has won many international piano competitions, prizes and awards including the Grand Prix at the First European Piano Competition Halina Czerny-Stefanska In Memoriam in Poland and 1st Prize at the N. Rubinstein International Piano Competition. Recently she was chosen as one of the three winners of the Tillett Trust Young Artists' Platform scheme and made her debut in Wigmore Hall as part of The Monday Platform in September 2010. Olga was invited to participate in various masterclasses with such distinguished musicians as the late Halina Czerny-Stefanska, the late Alexander Satz, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Lilya Zilberstein, Garrick Ohlsson, Dmitry Bashkirov, Piers Lane, Fou Ts'ong, Howard Shelley, Bruno Canino and Richard Goode. In May 2011 she was selected for the prestigious Park Lane Group Young Artists Series and will make her debut at the Southbank Centre in London in January 2012.

    The 2010-2011 season includes performances at Wigmore Hall and Barbican Hall in London, Salle Cortot in Paris, various British festivals and as a soloist with the Poznan Philharmonic.