of art & design
The Music Department celebrates the hiring of newest faculty member, Dr. Olga Kleiankina! As head of the piano program Dr. K will give two faculty performances in her first year.
Olga Kleiankina’s talents, both as a pianist and composer, were marked at an early age. At age ten she won Moldova’s national composition contest, having already performed her own works in public for a full year before. From such early successes, she received degrees from respected schools in Moldova and Romania, followed by a Masters Degree from Bowling Green State University in Ohio, and a Doctorate in Piano Performance from the University of Michigan.
Olga has received various awards and prizes for her performance, accompanying, chamber music, jazz, composition and arrangements including the Bradshaw & Buono Piano Competition and a First Prize in the Xith Pro Piano Competition in Romania. After her orchestral debut with the State Philharmonic of Moldova in 1997, she continued her concert appearances with the Transylvania, Satu-Mare and Oradea Symphonies from Romania with conductors Emil Simon, Robert Houlihan, and Zsolt Janko. She has presented numerous solo and chamber music recitals in Moldova, Romania, Hungary, France, Greece and United States, and her playing praised as a “brilliant, clear, logical, sophisticated and pure.”
Be sure to attend Dr. Kleiankina’s debut performance at NC State on Thursday, November 19th at 7pm in Stewart Theatre. The recital features a spectacular program of piano transcriptions of famous works including Olga’s own arrangement of Stravinsky's ballet, Petrushka, for piano and percussion, in collaboration with the Music Department’s own Dr. Paul Garcia. The two other works on the program are the operatic fantasy Réminiscences de Don Juan by Franz Liszt and The Nutcracker Suite by Tchaikovsky, just in time for the holidays.
Olga Kleiankina Faculty Recitals
Thurs, Nov. 19 at 7pm
Stewart Theatre
with Dr. Paul Garcia
Thurs, Apr. 8 at 7pm
Stewart Theatre