OLEG LIPS, accordion
Born in St. Petersburg in 1966, he has been playing the accordion since he was 6 years old. From 1973 to 1980 he studied at the Mussorgskij Muiskakademie and in 1992 obtained the teaching, conducting and expert diploma at the St. Petersburg Academy of Music. In 1990 he became a member of the concert organization St. Petersburg and Kazanskij Sobor. Tours have taken him throughout Russia, to Germany, Spain, Poland and France. He acted in Zurich in witches, men's songs with Christine Lather and Trio Tüsel, the big book at the theater spectacle, the case in the even theater and night asylum by M. Gorki in the Zurich theatre. He also worked with the Basel Sinfonietta and the Saarland University Orchestra. Since 1998 he has been a member of the trio Gli Artigiani. Together they performed in Japan and produced «Signore Rossini & Co». Since 2016 he has been organist in the Evangelical Reformed Church in Oberglatt and has lived in Lobsigen, BE since October 2018.