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THE NEW HOLLYWOOD STRING QUARTET PRESENTS
THE 2025 SUMMER OF ANGELS CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL
JULY 10-13, 2025

GRAMMY Award-Winning Conductor Leonard Slatkin
to Introduce and Speak at All Concerts

Festival Performances to Include:
Jean-Yves Thibaudet Performs with New Hollywood String Quartet, July 10
Tchaikovsky & Schubert with Cellist Alban Gerhardt, July 11
New Hollywood String Quartet Performs
with Gerhardt, Ngwenyama & Zado, July 12
Walton & Brahms with Pianist Olga Zado, July 13

Rothenberg Hall, Huntington Gardens; San Marino, CA

LOS ANGELES, CA - The New Hollywood String Quartet announces programming and dates for the 2025 Summer of Angels Chamber Music Festival, running from July 10-13, 2025 at Rothenberg Hall at the Huntington Library, Art Museum & Gardens. The festival will feature four concerts of chamber music repertoire that were recorded by the original Hollywood String Quartet at Capitol Records, with special guests on select pieces: GRAMMY-nominated pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet performs Franck’s Piano Quintet in F Minor with the quartet on July 10; cellist Alban Gerhardt joins the quartet on Schubert’s String Quintet in C Major on July 11; Gerhardt, violist Nokuthula Ngwenyama, and pianist Olga Zado guests on Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht and Robert Schumann’s Piano Quintet in E-flat Major on July 12; and Zado will re-join the quartet on July 13 to perform Brahms’ Piano Quintet in F Minor. GRAMMY Award-winning conductor Leonard Slatkin will introduce the concerts and give historical context throughout.

The Summer of Angels Festival is the sixth summer chamber music festival held by the New Hollywood String Quartet since their inaugural Summer of Brahms Festival in 2019. Since then, they have produced and performed summer chamber music festivals centered around composers, such as Beethoven in 2022, or national musical movements, such as French composers from the Fin de Siècle in 2023, or last year’s Summer of Bohemia Festival, which featured music by Czech composers such as Dvorák and Janàcek, among others. This year, the Summer of Angels Festival slightly deviates from previous festivals by focusing solely on music from the original Hollywood String Quartet’s Capitol Records discography.

New Hollywood String Quartet member and violinist Rafael Rishik has this to say about the programming for this year’s festival: “The famed Hollywood String Quartet's recorded legacy continues to inspire present and future musicians. Performing that chamber music literature with my colleagues is an indescribable joy.”

The Hollywood String Quartet, founded by Felix Slatkin and Eleanor Aller in 1939, recorded a series of classical albums for Capitol Records in the 1950s that have since been heralded as some of the finest chamber music recordings of the 20th century. This led the Quartet to recording with Frank Sinatra on his 1956 album with Capitol Records, Close to You, introducing the Quartet to a wider audience. Their 1957 Capitol recording of Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 13 in B-flat won the very first GRAMMY Award for Best Classical Performance, Chamber Music. Slatkin and Aller’s son, the world-renowned conductor Leonard Slatkin, will introduce each concert and also provide interstitial context and personal reflections on the programs, including stories about the Hollywood String Quartet and their time at Capitol Records.

The festival will feature the following concerts and programming:

• On Thursday, July 10 at 7:30PM, GRAMMY Award-nominated pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet performs the New Hollywood String Quartet, performing Franck’s Piano Quintet in F Minor. The Quartet will also perform Wolf’s Italian Serenade and Borodin’s String Quartet No. 2 in D Major.

• On Friday, July 11 at 7:30PM, the New Hollywood String Quartet performs Tchaikovsky’s String Quartet No. 1 in D Major, as well as Schubert’s String Quintet in C Major, where they will be joined by cellist Alban Gerhardt.

• On Saturday, July 12 at 5PM, the New Hollywood String Quartet starts off with Joaquin Turina's La Oracion Del Torero. Alban Gerhardt and violist Nokuthula Ngwenyama then join the quartet for Arnold Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht. The concert concludes with Olga Zado joining the quartet for Robert Schumann’s Piano Quintet in E-Flat Major.

• Finally, the festival ends on Sunday, July 13 at 5PM with Zado and the Quartet performing Brahms’ Piano Quintet in F Minor, alongside William Walton’s String Quartet in A Minor.

Festival passes go on sale on May 17, 2025 and start at $300, which gives the festival holder access to all concerts during the Festival. Student passes are available for $100. Single tickets for each concert go on sale June 20, 2025 and start at $70; student tickets are $30. To purchase passes and tickets, and to learn more about the Festival, visit the Festival website at summerofangels.com.

CALENDAR EDITORS PLEASE NOTE:
JEAN-YVES THIBAUDET PERFORMS WITH THE NEW HOLLYWOOD STRING QUARTET
Who: Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano; Tereza Stanislav, violin; Rafael Rishik, violin; Robert Brophy, viola;
Andrew Schulman, cello
When: Thursday, July 10, 2025 at 7:30PM
Where: Rothenberg Hall, Huntington Library, Art Museum & Gardens; 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA 91108

WOLF	Italian Serenade
BORODIN	String Quartet No. 2 in D Major
FRANCK	Piano Quintet in F Minor

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NEW HOLLYWOOD STRING QUARTET PERFORMS TCHAIKOVSKY & SCHUBERT
WITH ALBAN GERHARDT
Who: Alban Gerhardt, cello; Tereza Stanislav, violin; Rafael Rishik, violin; Robert Brophy, viola;
Andrew Schulman, cello
When: Friday, July 11, 2025 at 7:30PM
Where: Rothenberg Hall, Huntington Library, Art Museum & Gardens; 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA 91108

TCHAIKOVSKY	String Quartet No. 1 in D Major, Op. 11
SCHUBERT	String Quintet in C Major, D. 956, Op. posth. 163

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NEW HOLLYWOOD STRING QUARTET PERFORMS WITH ALBAN GERHARDT, NOKUTHULA NGWENYAMA & OLGA ZADO
Who: Alban Gerhardt, cello; Nokuthula Ngwenyama, viola; Olga Zado, piano; Tereza Stanislav, violin;
Rafael Rishik, violin; Robert Brophy, viola; Andrew Schulman, cello
When: Saturday, July 12, 2025 at 7:30PM
Where: Rothenberg Hall, Huntington Library, Art Museum & Gardens; 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA 91108

TURINA	La Oracion Del Torero
SCHOENBERG	Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4
R. SCHUMANN	Piano Quintet in E-flat Major, Op. 44

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NEW HOLLYWOOD STRING QUARTET PERFORMS WALTON & BRAHMS WITH OLGA ZADO
Who: Olga Zado, piano; Tereza Stanislav, violin; Rafael Rishik, violin; Robert Brophy, viola;
Andrew Schulman, cello
When: Sunday, July 13, 2025 at 5PM
Where: Rothenberg Hall, Huntington Library, Art Museum & Gardens; 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA 91108

WALTON	String Quartet in A Minor
BRAHMS	Piano Quintet in F Minor, Op. 34

All programs subject to change.

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The New Hollywood String Quartet (NHSQ) had its debut concert in January 2001 and has been performing to critical acclaim ever since. Inspired by the great Hollywood String Quartet from over half a century ago, the current members of the NHSQ  are likewise premier performers of their generation. Individually, and together as one of the top string quartets in Southern California, they are well known guests at many of the most prestigious concert series in Los Angeles and its environs. Its members reside in Los Angeles and have recorded hundreds of film scores, are members of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and have decades of chamber music experience between them. The NHSQ was featured on the GRAMMY-nominated album Passing Through performing Gernot Wolfgang’s String Theory for string quartet. Their most recent recording was on Jeff Beal’s latest album The Paper Lined Shack, performing Things Unseen for string quartet.

In a 2024 review, the LA Times wrote: “The New Hollywood String Quartet takes its inspiration from the famed Hollywood String Quartet, composed of studio musicians in the 1940s and ’50s. It had the reputation as America’s finest string quartet for its superbly silky sound and capacity for vivid drama. Its unerringly sublime Schubert and penetrating late-Beethoven recordings remind us that the golden era of soundtracks is owed in large part to such studio musicians. That’s still true with the New Hollywood, formed in 2001, four decades after the original Hollywood Quartet disbanded.”

The New Hollywood String Quartet consists of violinist Tereza Stanislav, violinist Rafael Rashik, violist Robert Brophy, and cellist Andrew Shulman.

 

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Through elegant musicality and an insightful approach to both contemporary and established repertoire, Jean-Yves Thibaudet has earned a reputation as one of the world’s finest pianists. He is especially known for his diverse interests beyond the classical world; in addition to his many forays into jazz and opera—including works which he transcribed himself for the piano—Thibaudet has forged profound friendships around the globe, leading to fruitful collaborations in film, fashion, and visual art. He is a devoted educator and the first-ever Artist-in-Residence at the Colburn School, which awards several scholarships in his name.

Thibaudet opens the 2024/25 season with Gershwin’s Piano Concerto in F at the Colorado Symphony; he later brings the piece to the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse, and Los Angeles Philharmonic. He performs another signature piece, Saint-Saëns’s Piano Concerto No.5, with the National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, Pacific, Kansas City, and San Diego Symphonies, Macao Orchestra, and Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France. A major contemporary exponent of Khachaturian’s Piano Concerto, Thibaudet performs the piece with the National Symphony Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, and Tonhalle orchestras. 

In Seoul, with the KBS Symphony Orchestra, he returns to Scriabin’s Prometheus: The Poem of Fire, which he performed last season in a synesthetic presentation with olfactory cues created by Mathilde Laurent of Cartier. He also appears as soloist on Liszt’s Piano Concerto No.2, with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Münchner Philharmoniker; Leonard Bernstein’s Symphony No.2, Age of Anxiety, with Shanghai Symphony Orchestra; and Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G with the New Jersey Symphony and Palm Beach Symphony orchestras. Other season highlights include world premiere performances of two new works: Benjamin Attahir’s double-concerto Hanoï Songs, with the Seattle Symphony, and Manu Martin’s Cosmic Rhapsody, with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; and the return of his program with Michael Feinstein, Two Pianos: Who Could Ask for Anything More? in Rome and San Francisco.

In addition to his orchestral dates, Thibaudet takes part in the Itzhak Perlman and Friends tour across California and a tour of Asia with longtime collaborator Gautier Capuçon. While visiting the Boston Symphony Orchestra, he will play chamber music with members of the orchestra. He also continues his multi-season focus on Debussy’s Préludes, performing both books in their entirety at recitals across the United States; last season saw a reissue of his seminal 1996 recording of the Préludes on limited-edition vinyl with design by Vivienne Westwood.  

A prolific recording artist, Thibaudet has appeared on more than 70 albums and six film scores; his extensive catalogue has received two GRAMMY nominations, two ECHO Awards, the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik, the Diapason d’Or, the CHOC du Monde de la Musique, the Edison Prize, and Gramophone awards. Recent recordings include Gershwin Rhapsody, a collection of Gershwin pieces recorded with Michael Feinstein, including four newly-discovered ones; Night After Night, a celebration of James Newton Howard’s scores for the films of M. Night Shyamalan; and Carte Blanche, a collection of deeply personal solo piano pieces never before recorded by the pianist. Other highlights include a 2017 recording of Bernstein's Age of Anxiety with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and Marin Alsop; recordings of the complete solo piano music of Debussy and Satie; GRAMMY-nominated recordings of Ravel’s complete solo piano works and Saint-Saëns’s Piano Concerti Nos.2 & 5; the jazz albums Reflections on Duke and Conversations With Bill Evans; and Aria–Opera Without Words, which features arias transcribed for solo piano by Thibaudet himself. 

Thibaudet has also had an impact on the worlds of fashion, film, and philanthropy. He was soloist on Aaron Zigman’s score for Wakefield; this was the first time the composer had allowed a pianist other than himself to perform his film work. He was also soloist in Dario Marianelli’s award-winning scores for the films Atonement (which won an Oscar for Best Original Score) and Pride and Prejudice, as well as Alexandre Desplat’s soundtracks for Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close and Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch. He had a cameo in Bruce Beresford's film on Alma Mahler, Bride of the Wind, and his playing is showcased throughout. In 2004 he served as president of the prestigious charity auction at the Hospices de Beaune. His concert wardrobe is designed by Dame Vivienne Westwood.

Jean-Yves Thibaudet was born in Lyon, France, where he began his piano studies at age five and made his first public appearance at age seven. At twelve, he entered the Paris Conservatory to study with Aldo Ciccolini and Lucette Descaves, a friend and collaborator of Ravel. At age fifteen, he won the Premier Prix du Conservatoire and, three years later, the Young Concert Artists Auditions in New York City. Among his numerous commendations is the Victoire d’Honneur, a lifetime career achievement award and the highest honour given by France’s Victoires de la Musique. In 2010 the Hollywood Bowl honored Thibaudet for his musical achievements by inducting him into its Hall of Fame. Previously a Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Thibaudet was awarded the title Officier by the French Ministry of Culture in 2012. In 2020, he was named Special Representative for the promotion of French Creative and Cultural Industries in Romania. He is a co-artistic advisor with Gautier Capuçon of the Festival Musique & Vin au Clos Vougeot in Burgundy.

 

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Internationally acclaimed conductor Leonard Slatkin is Music Director Laureate of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra (DSO), Directeur Musical Honoraire of the Orchestre National de Lyon (ONL), Conductor Laureate of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra (SLSO), Principal Guest Conductor of the Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria, and Artistic Consultant to the Las Vegas Philharmonic. He maintains a rigorous schedule of guest conducting throughout the world and is active as a composer, author, and educator. 

To celebrate his 80th birthday, he is returning to orchestras he led as Music Director, including the DSO, ONL, SLSO, and National Symphony Orchestra (Washington, DC). Additional 2024-25 highlights include the New York Philharmonic, Nashville Symphony, North Carolina Symphony, Manhattan School of Music Symphony Orchestra, Eastman Philharmonia, National Symphony Orchestra (Ireland), Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, Osaka Philharmonic, Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra, Kristiansand Symfoniorkester, Jersusalem Symphony, and Opera Theatre of St. Louis. Moreover, his composition Schubertiade: An Orchestral Fantasy and his arrangement of Scarlatti keyboard sonatas for orchestral wind ensemble are receiving world premieres this season.

Slatkin has received six GRAMMY Awards and 35 nominations. Naxos recently reissued Vox audiophile editions of his SLSO recordings featuring the works of Gershwin, Rachmaninov, and Prokofiev. Other Naxos recordings include Slatkin Conducts Slatkin—a compilation of pieces written by generations of his family—as well as works by Saint-Saëns, Ravel, Berlioz, Copland, Borzova, McTee, and Williams. 

A recipient of the prestigious National Medal of Arts, Slatkin also holds the rank of Chevalier in the French Legion of Honor. He has been awarded the Prix Charbonnier from the Federation of Alliances Françaises, Austria’s Decoration of Honor in Silver, and the League of American Orchestras’ Gold Baton. He received the ASCAP Deems Taylor Special Recognition Award for his debut book, Conducting Business: Unveiling the Mystery Behind the Maestro (2012), which was followed by Leading Tones: Reflections on Music, Musicians, and the Music Industry (2017) and Classical Crossroads: The Path Forward for Music in the 21st Century (2021). His latest books are Eight Symphonic Masterworks of the Twentieth Century (Rowman & Littlefield, spring 2024) and Eight Symphonic Masterworks of the Nineteenth Century (fall 2024), comprising essays that supplement the score-study process. 

Slatkin has held posts as Music Director of the New Orleans Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, SLSO, National Symphony Orchestra, DSO, and ONL, and he was Chief Conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra. He has served as Principal Guest Conductor of London’s Philharmonia and Royal Philharmonic, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, and the Minnesota Orchestra. 

He has conducted virtually all the leading orchestras in the world, including New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, all five London orchestras, Berlin Philharmonic, Munich’s Bayerischer Rundfunk, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, and Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.

Slatkin’s opera conducting has taken him to the Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Washington National Opera, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Santa Fe Opera, Vienna State Opera, Stuttgart Opera, and Opéra Bastille in Paris. 

Born in Los Angeles to a distinguished musical family, he began his musical training on the violin and first studied conducting with his father, followed by Walter Susskind at Aspen and Jean Morel at Juilliard. He makes his home in St. Louis with his wife, composer Cindy McTee.

 

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Alban Gerhardt has gained recognition as one of the world’s most versatile cellists, highly regarded for his technical mastery, profound musicality, and insatiable artistic curiosity. Notable orchestral collaborators include Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, all the British and German radio orchestras, Berliner Philharmoniker, Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Orchestre National de France, Orquesta Nacional de España as well as The Cleveland Orchestra, Philadelphia, Chicago symphony orchestras and New York Philharmonic, under conductors such as Christoph von Dohnányi, Kurt Masur, Klaus Mäkelä, Christian Thielemann, Simone Young, Susanna Mälkki, Vladimir Jurowski and Andris Nelsons.

Gerhardt’s wide repertoire includes all core concertos, as well as being the go-to soloist for contemporary composers. The upcoming season sees Alban Gerhardt collaborating with Boston Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra Washington, Munich Philharmonic, the Hallé and BBC Philharmonic, Orchestre de Chambre de Paris and Warsaw Philharmonic amongst others.

A keen chamber musician, Gerhardt regularly performs with pianists Steven Osborne and Alexei Volodin, the Alliage Saxophone Quintet and new collaboration partner, accordionist Ksenija Sidorova. The upcoming season brings Gerhardt to the Santa Catalina Festival, on tour around the UK with Steven Osborne, to Seoul Philharmonic, Shanghai Concert Hall and to New York’s 92nd Street Y for all Bach Suites in a solo recital. Gerhardt will also appear as Artistic Curator of the Schumann Festival in Dusseldorf in June during the 2024/25 season.

Having recorded extensively for Hyperion, Gerhardt’s album of the complete Bach suites was one of The Sunday Times’s Top 100 recordings of 2019. His album of Shostakovich’s Cello Concertos with the WDR Sinfonieorchester and Jukka-Pekka Saraste was awarded an ICMA in 2021. Gerhardt has won several awards, and his recording of Unsuk Chin’s Cello Concerto, released by Deutsche Grammophon, won a BBC Music Magazine Award, and was shortlisted for a Gramophone Award in 2015.

The 2023/24 season saw Gerhardt appearing as Artist in Focus at Aldeburgh Festival in June and as Duisburger Philharmoniker’s Artist in Residence for the season. Highlights in the 2023/24 season included Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin/Alsop, Gürzenich-Orchester Köln/Mälkki, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/ Manze, and Sydney Symphony Orchestra/Inkinen.

Gerhardt is passionate about outreach, and shares his experience and gift with audiences in schools, hospitals and young offender institutions. Alban Gerhardt plays a Matteo Gofriller cello dating from 1710.

 

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Nokuthula Ngwenyama, known familiarly as “Thula,” has established herself as a multifaceted artist and collaborator in her roles as both violist and composer, performing as an orchestral soloist, recitalist and chamber musician. She was born in Los Angeles, CA of Zimbabwean and Japanese parentage. 

Ms. Ngwenyama gained international prominence as a violist when she won the Primrose International Viola Competition at age 16 and then the Young Concert Artists International Auditions, which led to debuts at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC and the 92nd Street Y in New York; she is also a recipient of the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant. She has performed as a soloist and in recital around the world, including at the Louvre, Suntory Hall and the White House.  She is a member of Umama Womama, a trio of composer-players, with Valerie Coleman (flute) and Han Lash (harp, piano).

Her compositions have been performed by leading orchestras and chamber ensembles in North America, Africa, and Asia.  Boston Classical Review called her recent string quartet, Flow, written for the Takács Quartet, “immediate, ingratiating, and accessible a musical argument as they come… gloriously, radiantly sincere and affecting.” Ngwenyama’s music for orchestra has been performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic; Scottish Chamber Orchestra; Detroit, London, Chicago, Phoenix, New Jersey, San Francisco and Toronto Symphonies; KwaZulu Natal Philharmonic in South Africa; and the Orquesta Nacional de Madrid, among others. Ms. Ngwenyama is the first composer in residence with the Phoenix Chamber Music Society. 

Nokuthula Endo Ngwenyama attended the Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences and the Colburn School for the Performing Arts (now the Colburn Community School of Performing Arts) before graduating from the Curtis Institute of Music. As a Fulbright scholar she studied at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris and received a Master of Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School. She is also a voting member of the Recording Academy. Ms. Ngwenyama’s name means “Mother of Peace” and “Lion” in Zulu.

 

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Described as a “master of the magical art of rubato” (Hamburger Abendblatt) and as a “magician on the piano” (Mannheimer Morgen), Olga Zado touches audiences and critics around the world with her deep poetic musicianship and sparkling electrifying technique. As a highly gifted child Olga gave her first solo recitals and performances with orchestras from the early age of 7, making her international debut at the Kulturcasino Bern (age 12). Since then she performed as a soloist at major European concert venues, such as the Berlin Philharmonie, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, the Philharmonie at the Gasteig Munich, the Gewandhaus zu Leipzig, the Mozarteum Salzburg, the Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin, the Meistersingerhalle Nuremberg, the Berner Kulturcasino, the Brucknerhaus Linz, the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris, the Teatro Comunale Ponchielli di Cremona, the Teatro Filarmónica de Oviedo. Among others, as a soloist she worked with orchestras such as the Biel Solothurn Symphony Orchestra, the Mannheim Philharmonic, the Lower Silesian and Rzeszow Philharmonic Orchestras, the National Chamber Orchestra of Armenia, the Kiev and Odessa Symphony Orchestras and the Kosovo Philharmonic.

Olga Zado is also passionately dedicated to chamber music and is the artistic director of the chamber music series “FinestClassics” in Mannheim, Germany. Among others, she has worked with partners such as Jerusalem Quartet, Sharon Kam, Johannes Moser, Amihai Grosz, Boris Brovtsyn, Claudio Bohorquez, Inon Barnatan, Nitzan Haroz and Antonio Meneses. She won numerous international competitions and received grants from many major foundations. 

Born in Odessa (Ukraine), Olga Zado received her musical education at the renown Stolyarsky Special Music School for young prodigies in the piano tradition of Heinrich Neuhaus. After continuing her musical studies with Mihaela Ursuleasa at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Bern, she received further important musical impulses from Leon Fleisher, Arcadi Volodos, Pavel Gililov, Jacques Rouvier, Bernd Glemser and especially from Sergei Babayan with whom she has a long term artistic and personal friendship. Olga Zado is a Steinway artist.