Graduated in the Stellenbosch University (South Africa), Olga Amaro studied with pianist Nina Schumann with whom she completed her Master in Piano Performance \u201ccum laude\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Throughout her musical path, she was a student of Eug\u00e9nia Moura ( Fernandes F\u00e3o Music Academie) and Constantin Sandu (ESMAE), working at the same time with musicians such as Helena S\u00e1 e Costa, Sequeira Costa, Vladimir Viardo, Konstantin Sherbakov, Alexei Lubimov, among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Awarded with the 1st prize of Concurso Nacional Florinda Santos (1996, S\u00e3o Jo\u00e3o da Madeira) and ATKV-Muziq Competition (2005, South Africa) in the Ensemble category, Olga Amaro was also awarded a Funda\u00e7\u00e3o Calouste Gulbenkian Scholarship (from 1997 to 2003), and received the Lions Club Prize and the merit-based grant of Instituto Polit\u00e9cnico do Porto (2002). In 2011, she won the prize for best pianist in the 5th Lyrical Vocal Competition of Funda\u00e7\u00e3o Rot\u00e1ria Portuguesa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Olga regularly performs solo and in chamber music and has already played in Portugal, Spain, France, England, Italy, Germany, Romania, South Africa, Mozambique and Columbia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Her discography includes two albums: \u201cCan\u00e7\u00f5es de Lem\u00faria\u201d with soprano Marina Pacheco (2013) and \u201cCan\u00e7\u00e3o\u201d with soprano Lara Martins (2021).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Currently, Olga is a collaborative pianist in Conservat\u00f3rio de M\u00fasica do Porto and ESMAE.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":16626,"template":"","categories":[49],"ano":[9,7],"com-pagina":[],"class_list":["post-16493","artista","type-artista","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pagina_artistas","ano-9","ano-corrente","entry","has-media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicfest.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artista\/16493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicfest.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artista"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicfest.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artista"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicfest.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicfest.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicfest.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16493"},{"taxonomy":"ano","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicfest.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ano?post=16493"},{"taxonomy":"com-pagina","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicfest.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/com-pagina?post=16493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}