Olga Parkhomenko

Olga Parkhomenko (b. 1928) came to Poznań competition as David Oistrakh's student at Moscow Conservatory; 25 years later she was to send here her former student, Vadim Brodski, who won the event. Susequent laureate of competitions in Paris and Salzburg, she made a particular impression in Poznań with her interpretation of 'The Fountain of Arethusa' by Karol Szymanowski: 'in dark colours, as if admired and musically described at dusk, to the setting sun', as commented by Jan Weber.

Rec. competition presentation (1952).