This Month's Special!

BR114 - OLEG VOLKOV - Rachmaninoff & Saint-Saens,
MOSCOW PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA

Oleg Volkov, who has won five international competitions throughout the world, now resides in the United States. He has recorded music for Music Corporation of America (MCA), Melodia (USSR), Fontec (Japan), and Brioso Recordings? USA. Mr. Volkov has six CDs on the Brioso label.

Oleg Volkov was born in the south of Russia in 1958. He began his musical studies at the age of seven, studying in Russian music schools, where he graduated with honors. His studies continued at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, entering in 1977, where he studied piano with Victor Merzhanov.

After his graduation, with honors, in 1982, he continued his postgraduate studies with Merzhanov, earning a DMA in 1987 with an honors diploma. After his graduation, Volkov was appointed to the position of assistant professor to Merzhanov, where he continued to teach until his departure for the United States in December 1990.

Since settling in the U.S, Mr. Volkov has gained critical and popular acclaim as a concert artist. He has appeared in concerts in major cities throughout the United States, both as a solo artist and playing concertos with principal orchestras. Volkov has also presented concerts in his native Russia, as well as in Spain, Italy, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Chile and Japan.. In the concert world, both here in the U.S. and abroad, Mr. Volkov enjoys the reputation of a premiere concert artist.