Olga's music and story have been featured by Sky News (live from Buckingham Palace during the Platinum Jubilee), BBC Radio 2 and BBC Good Morning Sunday with Clare Balding, London Live TV, the Daily Mail, the Daily Mirror, This Is Money, Royal Life Magazine, the London Daily News, Crossover Music Magazine and many others.
Performances, recordings and personal moments from Olga's musical history.
Teaching, broadcasting and professional life
Composition Visiting Professor at the London Performing Academy of Music. View faculty profile.Music, teaching and wellbeing. BBC Radio 4 featured Olga's piano teaching with a student living with Parkinson's disease.Member of the editorial board of Crossover Music Magazine. View the editorial board.His Noble Crown for the Coronation of King Charles III, featured by Royal Life Magazine. Read the feature.
Royal music and charitable work
Olga Thomas presenting her music to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Photograph by Theodore Wood.Olga Thomas with Debbie Kerslake, former Chief Executive of Cruse Bereavement Care, with the framed Jubilation presentation created for Her Majesty The Queen.The framed Jubilation presentation, including the recording and Cruse Bereavement Care's letter to Her Majesty The Queen.
Early theatre work · RADA, 1994
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art programme for Pierre Marivaux’s The Feigned Inconstancy, directed by Nicholas Barter, with original music composed and performed at the piano by Olga Thomas-Bosovskaya. The production featured members of a remarkable generation of emerging actors.
RADA programme for The Feigned Inconstancy, October–November 1994.The production credits name Nicholas Barter as director and Olga Thomas-Bosovskaya as composer and pianist.The cast page records the young company appearing in the 1994 production.
International children’s theatre
Olga Thomas with TheatreTrain founder Kevin Dowsett and young performers at the International Festival for Children’s Theatre in Bremen, Germany.
Selected theatre & radio archive
A selection from Olga’s work as a composer for theatre and BBC Radio 4, spanning major touring productions, distinguished creative teams and celebrated casts.
The Cherry Orchard (1994), presented by Bill Kenwright, starring Susannah York, Kenneth Haigh, John Michie and Alfred Marks; translated by Michael Frayn, with music by Olga Thomas-Bosovskaya.Hedda Gabler (1999), directed by Annie Castledine in a new version by Frank McGuinness, starring Francesca Annis, Peter Bowles, Robert Bathurst and Nyree Dawn Porter.The creative-team credits name Olga Thomas-Bosovskaya as composer for the Theatre Royal Plymouth production.Foe (1996), based on the novel by J. M. Coetzee, adapted by Mark Wheatley and co-produced with West Yorkshire Playhouse.The programme names Olga Thomas-Bosovskaya as composer; the company included Kathryn Hunter, Marcello Magni and Patrice Naiambana.BBC Radio 4’s Lady Audley’s Secret, dramatised by Bryony Lavery and directed by Annie Castledine, with music composed by Olga Thomas-Bosovskaya.The original Radio 4 billing for Lady Audley’s Secret.BBC Radio 4’s Cousin Bette, adapted by James Friel and directed by Marilyn Imrie, with music composed by Olga Thomas-Bosovskaya.The original Radio 4 billing for Cousin Bette, with a distinguished ensemble cast.
Kirk Douglas Way · Palm Springs, 2004
At the Douglas family's request, Olga performed The Douglas Suite live at the Palm Springs ceremony marking the naming of Kirk Douglas Way, and presented Kirk Douglas with her recording.
Olga Thomas performing The Douglas Suite at the 2004 Palm Springs dedication of Kirk Douglas Way.Presenting Kirk Douglas with her recording after the performance.Kirk Douglas viewing the recording presented by Olga.A warm moment following the ceremony.Olga Thomas with Kirk Douglas at the celebration.At the Kirk Douglas Way dedication, Palm Springs, 2004.
Recording studios
Adrian Warwick, Olga Thomas and Joanna Forest at The Old Hit Factory Studios.Olga Thomas at The Old Hit Factory Studios.Olga Thomas and Joanna Forest recording at the historic Dean Street Studios.A studio moment with Joanna Forest and the Dean Street Studios team.Olga Thomas with members of the Dean Street Studios team.
Music-making at the end of lockdown
A light-hearted return to The Old Hit Factory Studios: Olga's playful “Lady Surgeon” look brought a little theatricality to the final days of masks.
Olga's “Lady Surgeon” studio look at the end of lockdown.Olga Thomas and Joanna Forest at The Old Hit Factory Studios.A theatrical pause between the music-making.
Honours and public life
Olga Thomas with Sir John Major at a London event.Olga Thomas with her Best Classical Composer award from Regent's Music Society.The Best Classical Composer award presented to Olga Thomas.
