Ola Sendecki

Sunday
February 21, 2021
5:00 pm EST

Ola Sendecki has been highly involved in all aspects of the chamber music scene, from baroque and classical through crossover, jazz and contemporary music.  She is a co-founder of both the Helikon Trio, which appears in concert both in Switzerland and abroad, and the Kubus Quartet, which performs almost exclusively contemporary works in unique projects such as in musical theater and with the DresdenFrankfurt Dance Company.

She has joined and led chamber music ensembles at many venues in Europe and beyond, including the Lucerne Festival, Yellow Lounge Berlin, the Baden-Baden Autumn Festival, the Darmstadt and Donaueschingen Music Festival, and many other Festivals around Europe with Nik Bärtsch’s Mobile-Extended group (ECM)

She has broadened her expertise through collaboration with musicians such as Uli Fussenegger and Graeme Jennings, and composers Wolfgang Rihm and Georg Friedrich Haas. She has also premiered solo and chamber works of several Swiss composers.

Since completing her studies Ola Sendecki has performed regularly with renowned orchestras including Festival Strings Lucerne an Orchestra of Europe.

Ola Sendecki was born to Polish parents in Basel. She received violin lessons at the Basel music academy and gained a place in the advanced class of Antonio Pellegrini ( Pellegrini Quartet). After completing her school studies she studied with Alexander van Wijnkoop, and in 2007 received her teaching diploma with distinction. In 2012, studying with Prof. Sebastian Hamann, she also passed her Master of Performance with distinction. Her studies also took her abroad to London, where her teachers were David Takeno and Detlef Hahn. She has taken masterclasses with Hansheinz Schneeberger, Ida Bieler, Latica Honda-Rosenberg, Ariane Mathäus and Guya Stuller, among many others.