Oksana Kolesnikova

Oksana Yurievna Kolesnikova, also known as Pianist Oksana, is a Russian-American composer, concert pianist and businesswoman, originally from Siberia, USSR. She currently resides in Los Angeles, California.
She has recorded eight albums of classical, new-age and popular music and operates a music school in Los Angeles.
Personal life
Oksana Kolesnikova was born in Barnaul in Altai Siberia, USSR. She studied classical piano in Russia from the age of five. Following the break-up of the Soviet Union, she immigrated with her family to the United States in 1993 at the age of 15. Her family settled in St. Petersburg, Florida. After entering St. Petersburg College, Kolesnikova won the Florida State Young Artists Symposium Competition in 1999. This earned her a scholarship to attend Florida State University, and she graduated with honors from their School of Music, in August 2001. She married her manager, Alessandro Concas, in 2000.
Career
During her coursework at Florida State University and after graduation, Kolesnikova performed throughout Florida, where she was discovered by an executive at HSN (Home Shopping Network) who booked her perform on the television network. and made two world tours on behalf of the Morale, Welfare and Recreation Department (MWR) of the U.S. Navy as well as a solo tour to entertain the U.S. Troops in Italy, Spain and Greece in September 2003.
In 2006, Kolesnikova performed at the Salento International Film Festival on opening night.
She has recorded eight CDs of classical and popular music as well as an instructional video for students of piano. She is also the owner of Oksana School of Foreign Languages. Both businesses are headquartered in Los Angeles, California. A reality television series about Oksana and her students began development in early 2015. Oksana's students include Grammy award-winner Kenny ‘Babyface’ Edmonds, producer Toby Gad, The Amazing Race TV producers Elise Doganieri and Bertram Van Munster, and Kim Kardashian.
Discography
As artist
*Oksana (2000)
*Free Floating (2002)
*Angelic Winters (2002)
*Freedom (2004)
*Best of Two Worlds (2007)
*Magical Journey (2010)
*George's Collection (2011)
As composer
*Smile Train Music Collection Volume One (2011) (charity album for Smile Train)
Media coverage
International media coverage of Kolesnikova includes television appearances on PBS with Scott Houston, “The Piano Guy,” on HSN (Home Shopping Network) as a performer and a business woman, and, as a performer and composer, has been featured on the cover of Hollywood Weekly and Imago Magazine, among others.

In 2009, her public recognition increased when she was erroneously identified in the media as the romantic partner of actor and director Mel Gibson. She has collaborated with other international musical artists for recordings, and her original compositions have been chosen by international artists to record on their own CDs, most notably her "Aurora Fantasy."
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