Olena Miso

Piano accompanist of the masterclass

Olena Miso was born in 1991 into a musical family in Ukraine. She studied piano at the Kruschelnytska Special Music School for Gifted Children in Lviv and at the Tchaikovsky State Academy of Music in Kyiv. In 2022 she completed her master’s degree at the University of Arts in Graz with distinction.

She received important musical impulses from renowned professors, including Yuri Kot, Milana Chernyavska and Chia Chou.

Olena is a laureate of numerous national and international competitions. She achieved 1st prizes in Austria, Italy, Serbia, Spain and Ukraine. In 2018 she received the gold medal at the “Martha Debelli Scholarship Competition”, the “Begabtenstipendium der Stadt Graz”, as well as a scholarship from the “Clavarte Foundation” in Berlin.

She has performed as a soloist with the National Orchestra of Ukraine, with the Lviv Chamber Orchestra on tour in Ukraine and Poland, and with the ÖSRM Orchestra in Spain.

Olena Miso is an internationally sought-after soloist. In addition to her solo career, Olena Miso devotes herself with great dedication to song accompaniment and chamber music. She has performed at numerous events, including the International Chamber Music Festival “Colluvio” in Styria, the International Music Festival “MozArt”, the Neuburg Culture Days.  In 2018, Olena Miso made a concert tour to Mexico and China together with cellist Anna Isabel Chan Flores. She and her piano trio “SoloWay” were also rewarded with several recording sessions at KUG as well as recordings for ORF. Most recently, the trio “SoloWay” was heard on “Radio Klassik” with recordings of Franz Schubert and Anton Arensky.

Since 2021 Olena works as a Senior Lecturer for Accompaniment  at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz.