Soprano Olga Shyp is a native of Ukraine where she graduated from the Odessa State Musical Academy (formerly known as Odessa State Conservatory). She combines a career of a classical singer with other related activities, such as conducting, directing and teaching. Olga's most recent singing engagements include Water Island Music Festival (U.S. Virgin Islands), "Sing, For The Lord Has Risen" Easter oratorio by Anne Phillips in a fundraiser for Haiti, inaugural concert for the non-profit 16,000children.org and multiple appearances for the Sing for Hope projects. Olga is a member of the Piques Dames vocal ensemble which has recently become a winner of several chamber music competitions and performs in the metropolitan New York area at musical festivals, radio shows, and charitable, private and corporate events.

Olga has been successfully collaborating with Remarkable Theater Brigade. Her recent appearances with RTB included directing and performing in concerts of short operas at Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall on October 1, 2010 and October 1, 2009. Olga's earlier engagements with this company include Emerging Composers Chamber Operas concert (in collaboration with Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music), performing in a master class with Marvin Hamlisch and directing a concert of opera scenes for its Young Artist Program. In 2011, she will return as a stage director for the YAP and will direct and sing at another Opera Shorts concert at Carnegie Hall.

Ms. Shyp has sung numerous operatic roles including Despina in Mozart's Cosi fan tutti; Adina in Donizetti's L'elesir d'amore; Violetta in Verdi's La Traviata; Gilda in Verdi's Rigoletto; Norina in Donizetti's Don Pasquale; Silberklang in Mozart's  Der Schauspieldirektor; Lucie in Menotti's The Telephone; La Chauve-Souris in Ravel's L'Enfant et les Sortiléges; Tonina in Salieri's Primo la musica, poi le parole; the title role in Rimsky-Korsakov's Snow Maiden; Marfain Rimsky-Korsakov's The Bride of Tsar; Oksana in Gulak-Artemovsky's Zaporozhets beyond the Danube.

An accomplished recitalist and oratorio soloist, Ms. Shyp has performed in the United States and toured Western and Eastern Europe. Her concert repertoire includes Handel's "Messiah", Mozart's "Requiem", Brahms' "Requiem", J.S. Bach's "Magnificat", "Johannes Passion" and "Matteus Passion", Haydn's "Lord Nelson Mass" and other works.