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Olga Kazyanskaya |
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Olga Kazyanskaya was born in Yaroslavl on March 6, 1956. In 1977, she graduated from theYaroslavl Regional Music College with specialization in Choral Conducting. The same year, she married Yakov Kazyansky, a professor at the college, and their twin daughters Anna and Katia were born in 1978. In 1987, Olga Kazyanskaya received her Masters degree from the Gorky Conservatoire (Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia).
From 1977 to 1987, she worked as the choir master at the School of Music # 7, followed by four years at the School of Music of the Officers’ House of Yaroslavl. Since 1991, she has worked as a music and enrichment teacher at the secondary school # 75. 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.
Each year, the students of Olga Kazyanskaya win regional music and theatre competitions. While working at the school, she has staged the following performances: 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, The Story of the Cat Philofey by Y.Dubravin, Old Man Hottabych by G.Gladkov, Cats by A.L.Webber and others.
In 1996, Olga Kazyanskaya won the regional competition The Teacher of the Year-96, and she was named Honoured Teacher of the Russian Federation in 1998. In 2006, Olga Kazyanskaya received the President’s Award.
For many years, Olga Kazyanskaya had worked as the voice tutor at the Yaroslavl Young People’s Theatre. Due to her professional skills, the theatre had been able to use the live singing of actors in many performances. Currently, Olga Kazyanskaya combines her work at the school with voice tutoring at the Puppet Theatre.
Olga Kazyanskaya has given classic, jazz and Jewish voice lessons to her daughters as well.