Olga Amelchenko
Olga Amelchenko is born in 1988 in Russia. She starts singing in choir at the age of 5, and playing piano and dombra two years later. Between 2003 and 2006, she studies at the College of music in Abakan, beginning her studies in choir conducting, before switching to saxophone.
In 2006, Olga moves to Novosibirsk, where she studies jazz at the College of Music. After graduating in 2010, she takes classical saxophone lesson to expand her knowledge of the instrument. Olga then moved to Germany, and studied at the Hochschule for Musik und Tanz in Cologne between 2012 and 2014. Olga Amelchenko moved to Berlin in 2014, where she finished a Bachelor of Jazz Performance in 2018 followed by a master of Jazz Composition and Arrangement in Jazz Institut Berlin in 2019.
Now, living Paris, Olga is involved in the european jazz scene as a leader with the Olga Amelchenko Quartet and HELICON, and as a side woman with different projects such as Musina Ebobisse Quintet, Franck Tortiller “Led Zeppelin chapter two”, Unique, among the others.
Shaping Motions her first album as a leader, is released in 2018 followed by Live at Loft in 2021 and Slaying the Dream in March 2023 and Before the Dawn in 2024.
