Born in 1979 in Uzbequistan, in the former Soviet Union, Olga Kopylova began her piano studies at the Uspensky Special Music School in Tashkent.
In Moscow, Olga studied at the Tchaikovsky Music College and then at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory, taking classes from the renowned teachers Tatiana Galitzkaya and Liudmila Roshina, both of them representative of the piano school of Samuil Feinberg.
Olga moved to Brazil in 2000 to take the lead pianist position at the Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo - Osesp, where she holds that role until the present day.
In 2002 Olga recorded the solo CD album “Estrela da Manhã” (“Morning Star”), featuring music from Russian composers. As a member of Osesp, she took part in many symphonic recordings, including the awarded CD with the Jolivet Concerts for trumpet and orchestra, featuring Ole Edvard Antonsen.
As a soloist, Olga has been performing along with Sao Paulo Symphony (Osesp), Orquestra Sinfônica de Campinas (OSMC), North State Symphony among others, under the baton of John Neschling, Roberto Minczuk, Giancarlo Guerrero, and Scott Seaton, among others.
Olga plays in chamber music presentations which are part of Osesp’s chamber music series, as well as together with international soloists, in addition to keeping stable formations as the Vesper Trio, Sexteto São Paulo and Kopylova&Rakevich Duo. She also engages in social and educational activities aiming to foster the development of new audiences for classical music.
