Olga Parkhomenko (full name Olga Mykhailivna Parkhomenko) was an Honored Artist of the Ukrainian SSR, violinist, and music teacher. She was born on 7 April 1928 in Kyiv and died there on 5 July 2011. She was buried at Baikove Cemetery.
Parkhomenko graduated from the Kyiv Conservatory in 1950, where she studied with Professor David Berthier. From 1950 to 1953, she pursued postgraduate studies at the Moscow Conservatory under Professor David Oistrakh.
Her competition distinctions included third prize at the Henryk Wieniawski International Competition in Poznań in 1952, second prize at the Marguerite Long and Jacques Thibaud Competition in Paris in 1955, and first prize at the Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Competition in Salzburg in 1956.
From 1963 to 1982, she taught at the Kyiv State Conservatory named after Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. She also taught at the Kyiv and Minsk conservatories and at the Jean Sibelius Music Academy in Helsinki, where she was an honorary professor of the Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine.
As a performer, Parkhomenko gave concerts in Germany, China, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Mongolia, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Iceland, Austria, and France. She prepared numerous violin editions and performed many violin works by contemporary composers. Her students included the soloists, chamber musicians, and orchestral concertmasters Alexander Melnikov, Vadim Brodsky, Nina Minko, Alexander Zapolsky, Tatyana Vodopyanova, Olga Sokolovskaya, Stefan Schott, and Alexander Gonobolin.