Olesya Rostovskaya, born in 1975 in
Moscow, Russia, studied at the
Central Music School in Moscow and then at the
Tschaikowsky Conservatory in
Moscow where she was awarded diplomas in composition in
2000 and organ playing
in 2001. She
began learning the art of Russian bellringing in
2003 and started to play the carillon in 2006. In 2008 she
was awarded a
carillon diploma from the State University of Saint
Petersburg and graduated
the following year from the carillon school in Mechlin,
Belgium. She gives regular
guest concerts in several European countries and performs
every summer at the
festival «Music Above the City» in Saint Petersburg. She
has recorded two CDs
of Russian carillon music and
written a series of radio programs about the
carillon. Rostovskaya is a member of the Russian Carillon
Foundation, Russian Composers
Association, the Russian Association of Electroacoustic
Music and the Russian
Organ Association, is active as a composer, theremin
player and organist and
has won prizes at several composition contests including the
Sacred Music Competition (1996), First National Young
Composers
Competition (1999), New Generation Music Competition
(2000), Massalitinov's
National Music Competition (2005), a piano improvisation
competition(2006), and the Russian Artiada (2010). She
has
given several lectures about the carillon art in Russia
including at the World
Carillon Congresses in the USA in 2011 and in Belgium
2014 and at a
campanological seminar at the State
University of Saint Petersburg, Russia in 2015.
Guest
concert on Saturday, August 13, 2011 at 4 p.m.
Works by Arensky, Bortniansky, Bulakhov, Dunaevsky, Kamarinskaya,
Rostavskaya, Tschaikowsky and Zinoviev. Download program here.