Olga Stern remembers her childhood in Moscow as full of skating, skiing, ice hockey and violin playing. Her father was a violinist, her grandmother a pianist, and she started playing at the age of 6.
She attended the Tchaikovsky Conservatory studying violin with Prof. Oleg Kagan and chamber music with the first violin of the Borodin String Quartet, Michael Kopelman.
In 1990, Olga Stern and her husband immigrated to Israel and in 1992 she joined the Israel Philharmonic.
She has three sons and shares their love of extreme sports, often arriving at the Charles Bronfman Auditorium on rollerblades after a brisk ride from her Neve Zedek home. She is interested in design and fashion and helped plan and build her home in Tel Aviv’s first neighborhood.