Olga Smola
Olga Smola: Violin/Executive Director
FROM: Siberia
PERFORMS AT:
WED. AUG 7, OMA
7pm Gallery 1516
CONTEMPORARY CLASSICAL CONCERT
THURS. AUG 8, LNK
7pm Johnny Carson Center @UNL
CONTEMPORARY CLASSICAL CONCERT
FRI. AUG 9, OMA
7-10pm GENE LEAHY MALL
OMAHA SHOWCASE
SAT. AUG 10, LNK
5-8pm ANTELOPE PARK BANDSHELL
LINCOLN SHOWCASE
A versatile violinist, Olga Smola plays solo and ensemble performances in many different styles of music including classical, jazz, rock, country and electronic music as a violin DJ.
Olga Smola was born in Krasnoyarsk, Russia and took her first violin lessons at the age of six. She graduated with honors from the Moscow State Conservatory in 2004, and finished her PhD at the Moscow Conservatory in 2012.
Since then, music has taken Smola around the world. Her solo touring credits include concerts in Monaco, Spain, Belgium, Croatia, France, England, Azerbaijan, the United States, and throughout the Russian Federation.
Since August 2016, Smola has served as a professor of music at the University of Nebraska at Omaha where she also serves as the music director, Russian culture consultant, composer and violinist for the Ollie Webb’s Center.