Olga Rayeva was born in Moscow and started her first music lessons at the age of four. She studied at the Central Music School and then at the State Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow with Prof. E. Denissov and Prof. W. Tarnopolsky (Composition), Prof. N. Korndorf and Prof. Yu. Boutsko (Score), Prof. Dr. Yuri Kholopov (Music Theory), Prof. Dr. E. Sorokina, Prof. Dr.T. Tscherednitschenko, Prof. Dr. V. Stshurov and other excellent music teachers. and later completed her doctoral studies at the same conservatory. Already during her studies, the works of Olga Rayeva began being performed in public (at the "Moscow Autumn" Festival, at the International Festival "Moscow-Modern", at the festival “Alternative”) and noted by critics to "have left a deep impression. " The composer herself was said to have an "impressive individuality" and to be "one of the most talented Russian artists of the generation."