Olga Kossovich

Violin

Dr. Olga Kossovich graduated with the highest academic standing from the most prestigious music institution in Russia, Moscow State Conservatory, and obtained her Doctor of Musical Arts degree (DMA) at the Northwestern University Bienen School of Music, one of few fully-funded DMA scholarship-based institutions in the United States.

She has worked as a violin performance teaching assistant at the Moscow State Conservatory, Northwestern University, and also at the prestigious Meadowmount masterclass series. Olga currently performs with her 1856 Jean- Baptiste Vuillaume “Messiah” Strad copy and the ex-Paganini “Il Cannone” Tourte violin bow.

Olga has also competed in many national and international competitions, and has perfected her craft as a violinist with guidance from several well-known artists, including Pinchas Zukerman, Ilia Kaler, Boris Kushnir and Shlomo Mintz.

In addition to her successes as a concert violinist, Olga has developed expertise in violin bows of the Classical Period. Working with an encyclopedic collection of authentic French transitional violin bows, she was able to link the violin bow Paganini used at the height of his concert career to the violinists of French School and to the French “cannon” operas of 1794.

In 2020, Olga became first violinist in the Buffalo Commons Music pandemic concerts in Grand Forks, ND. She then became Music Director of the performance group in 2022. In 2024, she joined the arts donor development organization, Museum Musicians of Atlanta.