Guadalupe López-Íñiguez
(b. 1983) is a Spanish cellist and interdisciplinary researcher based in Finland. She holds a PhD in Psychology from the Autonomous University of Madrid, and a Master’s Degree in Classical Music Performance from the Sibelius Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki. Guadalupe is currently Adjunct Professor of Music Education at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Center for Educational Research and Academic Development in the Arts (CERADA), Vice-President of the Spanish Association for Psychology of Music and Musical Performance, and freelance cellist. She is specialized in the educational psychology of music performance and instruction, and historically informed performance on period instruments.

In the field of musical performance, Guadalupe has been mentored by distinguished modern, nineteenth-century, and baroque cello masters, and is especially grateful for the encouragement received from mentors Rafael Ramos and Markku Luolajan-Mikkola. She has appeared as a soloist at many prestigious venues, and has taken part in a number of notable festivals in Europe, Russia, and the US, including the BRQ Vantaa Festival (FI), the Moscow Philharmonic Society (RU), the American Beethoven Center (US), the Utrecht Early Music Festival’s Fabulous Fringe (NL), the Bergheim Cello Solo Festival (DE), the Soiva Akatemia Festival (FI), Sibafest (FI), and others. Alba Records released her critically acclaimed albums with the complete cello works by Gabrielli and Scarlatti in 2018, and the complete cello works by Mendelssohn with pianist Olga Andryushchenko in 2019 − both albums performed on period instruments. Guadalupe also plays at times with the Helsinki Baroque Orchestra, as well as other professional early-music ensembles, and has recorded for radio and television. In earlier years, she was selected as the principal cellist for the youth orchestras of the communities of Madrid and Valencia, and the city of Oviedo (Spain).

In the field of artistic-scientific research, she presents her work regularly at international congresses and has been published in books and different impact journals indexed in the ISI Web of Knowledge (JCR-SSCI and A&HCI). She also serves as an expert for various journals, conferences, and institutions (e.g. European Commission), and has received numerous scholarships and awards. She is currently conducting her second postdoctoral research project, funded by the Academy of Finland (2018-2021), studying how to renew learning and performance practices among musicians and transform pedagogy in higher music education by highlighting the importance of learner identity. In addition, Guadalupe has worked since 2008 as a researcher in various well-funded collaborative research projects in Europe (e.g. I+D+i, Finnish Academy) related to the psychology of music learning and arts education. Her PhD, which was awarded in 2014 and carried out (on full scholarship FPU-UAM) under the supervision of Prof. Juan Ignacio Pozo, focused on the analysis of the psychological processes in the acquisition of musical knowledge, particularly from constructivist perspectives. Her first postdoctoral project, funded by the Kone Foundation (2016–2018), focused on the study of the complete works for piano and cello by Beethoven and Mendelssohn by combining multidisciplinary perspectives.

Olga Andryushchenko
is a Russian pianist based in Germany. She graduated from the Moscow Conservatory and completed a post-graduate course studying piano and historical keyboard instruments with Professor Alexei Lyubimov. She also studied organ with Professor Alexei Parshin. She continued her post-graduate studies as a DAAD scholarship holder of the Goethe-Institut at the Hochschule für Musik in Cologne, Germany, with Professor Arbo Valdma, and then as a graduate student (solo classes) at the Hochschule für Musik in Hannover, Germany, with Professor Vladimir Krainev. She has also improved her skills by attending the master classes of Malcolm Bilson, Konstantin Bogino, Vitaly Margulis, Dmitri Bashkirov, Mikhail Voskresensky, Karl-Heinz Kämmerling, and others. From 2002 to 2004, Olga was a soloist of the Moscow State Academic Philharmonic Society.

Olga Andryushchenko has won prizes in numerous international piano competitions, such as Franz Schubert und die Musik der Moderne in Austria, Musica Antiqua in Belgium, Vanna Spadafora in Messina, and the Schubert in Dortmund, Bach-Wettbewerb in Leipzig, and Nikolai Rubinstein, and Scriabin in Paris. In November 2011, she was awarded the first prize of the I Hammerklavier Competition at Schloss Kremsegg, Austria.

Olga Andryushchenko has performed at many prestigious venues across the world, including the Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall and the International House of Music in Moscow, the Grand Hall of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Society, the Auditorium Conciliazione in Rome, the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, the Beethoven-Haus in Bonn, Robert-Schumann-Saal in Düsseldorf, the Rolf-Liebermann-Studio des NDR in Hamburg, the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, the Concertgebouw in Bruges, the Cité de la Musique in Paris, the Oji Hall in Tokyo and others.

The pianist has taken part in a number of prominent festivals such as the ones dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Maria Yudina and the 125th anniversary of Arnold Schönberg, both in 1999 in Moscow, the Year of J.S. Bach’s Music and the Soul of Japan, both in 2000 in Moscow, the Franz Liszt Festival in 2000 in Weimar, the VI Russian Heinrich Neuhaus Festival in Saratov (2002), the Anna Artobolevskaya festivals in Moscow (1995 and 2005) and Ufa (2004), the St. Gallen Steiermark Festival in Austria (2003 and 2004), the Thürmer Piano-Festival in Meissen, Germany (2003), the Euregio Musikfestival in Osnabrück, Germany (2004), the Oleg Kagan Festival in Kreuth, Germany (2004), the Piano Festival in Sartène, France (2004), the Festival delle Città in Portogruaro, Italy (2004), Europalia-Russia in Brussels – the recital at the Henry Le Bœuf Great Hall of the Centre for Fine Arts (2005), the Di Musica da Camera in Lucca, Italy (2006), and the Vivat, Russland! Festival in Düsseldorf (2013). She has performed recitals in Tokyo during the Festival of Russian Culture in Japan (2009).

Olga Andryushchenko has collaborated with the Arnold Schönberg Center in Vienna, the Schubert Society in Duisburg, the International Rachmaninoff Society in Darmstadt, the C. Bechstein Center in Cologne and Düsseldorf, the Consulate General of the Russian Federation in Bonn and Frankfurt, with singer and conductor Peter Schreier and many chamber ensembles. In 2014, Olga collaborated with German TV and radio companies WDR and NDR taking part in the documentary on Wolfgang Bosbach and the Monologue Festival dedicated to the 80th anniversary of Alfred Schnittke along with the People’s Artist of Russia Alexei Lyubimov.

Naxos released albums of Alexander Mosolov’s and Nikolai Roslavets’s complete piano works performed by Olga Andryushchenko in 2016 and 2017, respectively. In 2018, Olga recorded 20th century music for piano solo for the recording label Melodia, and the complete Mendelssohn works for cello and piano on period instruments together with cellist Guadalupe López-Íñiguez for Alba Records.