Olesya Rostovskaya, born in 1975 in Moscow, Russia, studied at the Tschaikowsky Conservatory in Moscow where she was awarded diplomas in composition in 2000 and organ playing in 2001. She began learning the art of Russian bellringing in 2003 and started to play the carillon in 2006. In 2008 she was awarded a carillon diploma from the State University of Saint Petersburg and graduated the following year from the carillon school in Mechlin, Belgium. She gives regular guest concerts in several European countries and performs every summer at the festival «Music Above the City» in Saint Petersburg. She has recorded a CD of Russian carillon music and written a series of radio programs about the carillon. Rostovskaya is a member of the Russian Composers Association, the Russian Association of Electroacoustic Music and the Russian Organ Association, is active as acomposer, theremin player and organist and has won prizes at several composition contests including the Sacred Music Competition (1996), First National Young Composers Competition (1999), New Generation Music Competition (2000), Massalitinov's National Music Competition (2005), a piano improvisation competition (2006), and the Russian Artiada (2010).