Persuasive, idiomatic, and commanding, the playing of pianist Oksana Glouchko has brought a singular voice to the great classics of piano literature—from Bach and Mozart to Rachmaninov and Ravel. Her virtuosity, scholarship, and stage presence inform her work as a performer and educator.

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A Russian-born Israeli, Ms. Glouchko has been a featured soloist at the Bloney Festival (Switzerland), Mozart Fest (Malta), and International Festival and Institute at Round Top (USA). Recent engagements include Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 with the Chile Symphony Orchestra, Brahms’ Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Rishon-Lezion Symphony Orchestra, as well as Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody and Piano Concerto No. 3 with the Carter Symphony Orchestra of Tel Aviv.

 

Winner of the Claudio Arrau International Competition in Chile, The National Competition of Russian Composers, and the Glinka National Piano Competition in Smolensk, she holds advanced degrees in piano performance from the Buchman-Mehta School of Music at Tel Aviv University; she also studied at DePaul University and attained the Doctorate in Musical Arts from Stony Brook University. Additional honors include fellowships and grants from the America-Israel Cultural Foundation, the Colton Foundation, and the Buchman-Heyman Foundation. Her teachers have included Larisa Igoshina, Viktor Derevianko, Natasha Tadson, Eteri Andjaparidze, and Gil Kallish.

 

Dr. Glouchko has formerly served on the the piano faculty of the University of Delaware (2019-2022), where she taught courses in piano literature and chamber music. She also served as instructor for undergraduate piano performance at Stony Brook University (2009-2012) and maintains an active private studio. She's held positions on the piano staff of Israeli Opera, Opera Delaware, Indianapolis Opera, the IVAI International Festival for Opera Singers, Musiktheater Bavaria (Germany), Rollins College and Indiana Wesleyan University.