Olga Pasichnyk

She is married to Yuri Pliska, assistant professor at Warsaw University of Life Sciences.

She initially trained to be a pianist at Rivne, but moved to the Kyiv Conservatory to study singing as a soprano with Evgeniya Miroshnichenko.

She then completed her postgraduate studies with Alina Bolechowska at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw.

In parallel with her opera career, Pasichnyk performs concert works and tours widely with her sister Natalya.

[6] She has won prizes at the International Vocal Competition 's-Hertogenbosch (the Netherlands, 1994), the Mirjam Helin International Singing Competition in Helsinki (Finland, 1999) and the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition (2000) as well as awards in Poland for her work at the Warsaw Opera, including the Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland (2012).