Summer Fantasy - Piano Concert - Oleg Poliansky

Oleg Poliansky was born in Kiev, Ukraine, in 1968. Oleg  Poliansky  started to study the piano at the Lysenko Music School in  Kiev, where his teachers  were Natalia Gridneva and Natalia Tolpygo.  Simultaneously, he also studied violoncello  from the 1st  through 8th  class  at the same school with Galina Grishenko.

To  his teachers belong three well-known personalities: Alexandr Alexandrov  at the Gnessin Institute in Moscow, Sergei Dorensky at the Moscow  Conservatory and Pavel Gililov at the Musikhochschule Köln. Oleg  Poliansky has been living in Köln as well since 1993 and holds the  academic position of Associate Professor for Major Piano at Hochshule  für Musik Köln since 2007.

He  is prize winner of many international competitions, first of all of the  international `Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow` (Russia) in 1998. In  addition to that, he won prizes in Tokyo (Japan) in 1986, in Montreal  (Canada) in 1988, at `The international Duo Competition in…