Oksana Ezhokina, is a native of Ryazan, Russia. A winner of several piano and chamber music competitions, Ms. Ezhokina frequently appears as guest recitalist and chamber musician on concert series across the United States, and has been featured on multiple live radio broadcasts on stations including WFMT-Chicago, KUOW-Seattle, and Maine Public Radio.  Her collaborations have included concerts with such ensembles as the Seattle Chamber Players, Klimt Piano Trio and the Contemporary Chamber Players. A dedicated champion and performer of works by contemporary composers, she has premiered music by Laura Kaminsky and Paul Drescher, among others.

Ms. Ezhokina was awarded a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in piano performance from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 2004. She also holds an Artist Diploma from the Ryazan School of Music in Russia, a Master of Music degree in piano from Northern Illinois University and a Bachelor of Music degree from Walla Walla College. Her principal teachers were Christina Dahl, Donald Walker, Leonard Richter and Eleanor Oragyoff, and she has coached chamber music with pianists Gilbert Kalish and Seymour Lipkin as well as members of the Juilliard, Emerson, Orion and Vermeer String Quartets. Ms. Ezhokina is pianist of the Icicle Creek Piano Trio, Co-Artistic Director of the Icicle Creek Music Center, and Co-director of the Icicle Creek Chamber Music Institute.