Olga Kazyanskaya

A graduate of Gorky Conservatoire (Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia), Olga Kazyanskaya has pioneered a system of musical and aesthetic education of children on the basis of choral singing, through which the issues of music history and theory are covered. In her opinion, there are no children that cannot be taught singing; each class of Olga Kazyanskaya is a choir that performs in multiple voices the wide spectrum of the world music – from the classics to musicals.

Olga has worked in several schools in Yaroslavl, most recently at the secondary school # 75 (from 1991 to 2021) as a music and enrichment teacher, and choir conductor. Each year, the students of Olga won regional music and theater competitions. While working at the school, she has staged the following shows: Cinderella by A.Spadavekkia, Rat-tat! Who is there?, I Count Till Five and The Cat’s House by Y.Kazyansky, Orpheus and Eurydice by C.W.Gluck, Cats by A.L.Webber, Into the Woods by S.Sondheim, and others.

In 1996, Olga Kazyanskaya won the regional competition The Teacher of the Year-96, and she was named Honored Teacher of the Russian Federation in 1998. In 2006, Olga Kazyanskaya received the President’s Award.

For many years, Olga had worked as the voice tutor at the Yaroslavl Young People’s Theater and the Puppet Theater. Thanks to her professional skills, the theater had been able to use the live singing of actors in many shows

Olga  has given classic, jazz and Jewish voice lessons to her daughters as well. Currently, Olga lives in Chicago and gives private lessons in piano and singing.