Olga Zhukova was born in St. Petersburg in 1991. She began her musical studies at the age of five with pianist M. Buts at the A. Petrov Music School in St. Petersburg in 1996. In 2006, she entered the St. Petersburg Mussorgsky Music College, where she began studying organ with A. Kalinkina.
In 2010, Olga enrolled at the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory, where she studied organ with Prof. D. Zaretsky. In 2013, she began her international studies — first at the Haute École de Musique de Lausanne in Switzerland, where she studied with Prof. M. Croci and B. Righetti. There, she earned a Master’s degree in Organ with distinction, as well as a Master’s degree in Solo Performance.
She later moved to Germany in 2019 to continue her organ studies at the Lübeck University of Music with Prof. A. Gast, and most recently at the University of Music and Theatre in Hamburg, where she is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Church Music.
Olga has won numerous awards for organ performance. She received First Prize at the 2013 Wuppertal International Organ Competition in Germany, hosted by the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln (Cologne). As part of the prize, she was also offered a recording contract with WDR 3 Radio. That same year, she was awarded a scholarship by the Fondation Académie d’Orgue de Fribourg in Switzerland.
An active recitalist, Olga has performed in prestigious venues including the Stadthalle in Wuppertal, Germany; the Tonhalle and Grossmünster in Zurich, Switzerland; St. Sernin Church in Toulouse, France; St. Pierre Cathedral in Geneva, Switzerland; Sant’Antonio dei Portoghesi and the Basilica dei Santi Apostoli in Rome, Italy, among others.
She has also been invited to perform at numerous festivals, including the Fribourg International Organ Festival (2014, 2016) in Switzerland, the Treviso International Organ Festival (2015) in Italy, and the Braga International Organ Festival (2018) in Portugal. She also participated in two concerts dedicated to the Swiss composer Aloÿs Fornerod, which were broadcast on Swiss radio Espace 2 and led to the recording of a CD titled Aloÿs Fornerod, un portrait.
Recent recital invitations have included Oslo Cathedral, St. Margaret’s Church in Munich, and Lincoln Cathedral. Since 2023, Olga has served as organist of the historic organ at St. Martin’s Church in Minden.
In 2022–2024, Olga gave around 20 charity organ concerts in support of Ukraine.
