Olga Shupyatskaya is a pianist and educator whose performances have taken her to Europe, South America, and across the United States. She was a winner of the Young Artist Prize of the National Federation of Music Clubs and earned first prizes at the Concours International de Piano du Moulin d’Andé, the Stravinsky Competition, the Southeastern Piano Festival, and a prize at the Thousand Island International Piano Competition. She has taught piano at Skidmore College, at the Eastman Community Music School, where she was awarded the Jack L. Frank Award for Excellence in Teaching, and at the Music Academy of Kansas City. She has presented master classes at the Bogotá International Piano Festival, Nazareth College, Marshall University, and the Ohio Federation of Music Clubs State Convention. She also served as an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Piano Literature and Director of Graduate Advising and Services at the Eastman School of Music, a staff pianist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and an adjunct faculty member at the University of Missouri Kansas City (UMKC) Conservatory. She currently teaches intermediate and advanced students at the UMKC Conservatory Academy.

Shupyatskaya earned her Doctorate in Piano Performance and Literature with a Minor in Music Theory at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY, where she also completed her Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees. Her principal teachers are Natalya Antonova and Terry Moran. Shupyatskaya earned a J.D. from the UMKC School of Law in 2023 and practices law as a Commercial Litigation Associate at Husch Blackwell LLP.