Olga Zado

The Ukrainian pianist Olga Zado enchants in the Elbphilharmonie with Schumann’s Piano Concerto. Performances of romantic works are very much based on what musicians call “Rubato”: in this magical art, Olga Zado is a master, as was to be admired in the Great Hall of the Elbphilharmonie. For the beautiful theme from Schumann’s Piano Concerto, Zado hesitated for an exciting split second before releasing the tension of the melody for the first time. A magical moment that irresistibly gently draws listeners into the spell of music

- Hamburger Abendblatt

On Tuesday evening, this room and every ear in the Brucknerhaus in Linz belonged to Olga Zado. The words are followed by a concert that was technically and interpretatively flawless, but received a special, painful overtone due to the accompanying circumstances. Olga Zado initially surprises with the energy that she transfers from her filigree, delicate body to the grand piano. She values ​​every note in her head, every attack, every tone. That attention grabs as she plays works by Ukrainian contemporaries Borys Lyatoshynskyi and Mykola Lysenko. Here, the melancholy of the Ukrainian soul is exposed with every note. An evening full of painful beauty

- OÖNachrichten Linz

Anyone who finally hears the demonic minor shallows from Olga Zado’s hand wants to think: Beauty looks different. However, this raw, wild, daredevil material is impressive without a doubt. And it leaves its mark

- Mannheimer Morgen

The maturity with which the soloist Olga Zado already plays, is surpassed only by her sensitivity for expression and phrasing. The music seems to flow right through her. It lives and breathes under her hands, comes alive and can be experienced in its immediacy. Technically impressive, emotionally captivating – one could have listened to her forever!

- Badische Neueste Nachrichten Karlsruhe

Her playing left nothing to be desired in terms of brilliance … Of course, her creative presence was particularly impressive. After all, she knew – not a matter of course – how to make the keyboard instrument sing

- Die Rheinpfalz

Chopin, meanwhile, makes her soul vibrate, and her piano playing is correspondingly attractive. In it she combines nobility, taste, poetic feeling and excellent playing technique. … It is pure joy to listen to such a remarkable artist as Olga Zado, who puts balanced emotions and elegance as well as a lot of precisely controlled, pianistic fireworks in her Chopin visions

- Mannheimer Morgen

Anyone who listens to Mozart’s “Kegelstatt” trio in the Musensaal of a Mannheim’s Rosengarten hears above all: enthusiasm. Pianist Olga Zado, with cellist Johannes Moser and Sharon Kam at the clarinet show: three musicians also function as a unit in interaction. This playful Mozart per se may be subscribed above all to cheerfulness – just as Kam, Zado and Moser make it, even the joy gets a greatness that can be described as sublime

- Mannheimer Morgen