Violin
BM Moscow Conservatory
MM Moscow Conservatory
DMA Northwestern University
COURSES TAUGHT:
Applied Violin
Orchestral Repertoire
String Pedagogy
CONTACT INFORMATION:
773-325-4404
About
Olga Dubossarskaya Kaler has established herself as a versatile musician, combining solo, chamber music and teaching careers with equal success and touring three continents as a soloist, chamber musician and an orchestra member. She joined the violin faculty of the DePaul University School of Music as the in 2004 and currently serves as Associate Professor of Violin, also teaching the String Pedagogy and Orchestral Repertoire classes. She holds a Doctor of Music degree from the Northwestern University Bienen School of Music and all previous degrees from the New England Conservatory of Boston, MA, the Moscow State Conservatory in Russia and the Stolyarsky Special Music School for Gifted Children in Odessa, Ukraine. Major teachers include Professors Almita Vamos, Nelli Shkolnikova, Benjamin Mordkovich, Naoum Latinsky, Inna Gaukhman, James Buswell and Sergei Kravtchenko.
Dr. Kaler has numerous awards to her credit, among which are the Special Prize at the Rodolfo Lipitzer International Competition, 1st Prizes at the Northwestern University Beinen School of Music Concerto Competition and Thaviu Competition.
Previous orchestral engagements include the Chicago Symphony, Boston Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestras as well as permanent positions of the Assistant Concertmaster of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and Principal Second Violin of the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra, among others.
Olga Kaler is currently a member of the World Orchestra for Peace under the direction of Valery Gergiev, a member of the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra of NY, a Principal Associate Concertmaster of the Lake Forest Symphony, IL and a member of the Chicago Ensemble.
She appeared as a soloist, chamber and orchestral musician and a teacher at the Skaneateles Music Festival, NY, Montreal Chamber Music Festival in Canada, Steamboat Springs Chamber Festival in Colorado, Athens Music Festival in Greece, Villa Musica and Schleswig-Holstein Festivals in Germany.
She lives in Wilmette, IL, with her husband, Ilya Kaler, and two sons, Daniel and Ariel.