Origin Russia Name Valentina Igoshina Instruments piano | Genres classical | |
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Born November 4, 1978 (age 45) ( 1978-11-04 ) Website www.valentina-igoshina.com Role Classical pianist · valentina-igoshina.com Similar People Valentina Lisitsa, Mikhail Pletnev, Valery Gergiev, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Claudio Abbado | ||
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Valentina Igoshina (born 4 November 1978 in Bryansk, Bryansk Oblast) is a Russian classical pianist.
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- Sergei rachmaninov prelude opus 23 n 5 in gm valentina igoshina
- Valentina igoshina fantasie impromptu chopin
- Biography
- Professional accomplishments
- Festival and major orchestral appearances
- Recordings
- References
Valentina igoshina fantasie impromptu chopin
Biography
Valentina Igoshina began studying piano with her mother, and first took lessons at home at the age of four. At the age of twelve she began attending the Moscow Central School of Music and became a student of Sergei Dorensky and Larissa Dedova at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory.
Igoshina has also served as a teacher of piano at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow. Between recitals and concerts, she currently divides her time between Moscow and Paris. Her home in France is near Giverny in Haute-Normandie.
Professional accomplishments
In 1993, at age 14, she won first prize at the Artur Rubinstein Piano Competition in Bydgoszcz, Poland. In 1997, at age 18, she won first prize and a special award at the famed Rachmaninov International Piano Competition in Moscow.
Igoshina has also competed in four other worldwide piano competitions:
Igoshina appears on the list of great women pianists as compiled at www.forte-piano-pianissimo.com
Festival and major orchestral appearances
Igoshina has been invited to play with many notable orchestras, among them:
Igoshina has appeared on multiple occasions with several of the foregoing orchestras. Additionally, she worked both in Russia and Italy with Alexander Vedernikov during his tenure at the Bolshoi Theatre. She has performed in the Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory. Igoshina has also appeared with orchestras in Kraków, Poland; Brandenburg, Germany; Gdansk, Poland; St. Louis, Missouri (Robert Hart Baker conducting); Saint-Etienne, France; Wuhan, China; Tokyo, Japan; Moscow, St Petersburg, and Bryansk in Russia; Sofia, Bulgaria; Budapest, Hungary (Izaki Masahiro conducting); and many other venues.
She has also participated in numerous recitals and musical festivals; a few are listed as follows:
Recordings
Igoshina has made live recordings on BBC Radio 3, ABC Classic FM, BBC Scotland, as well as the sound tracks for Tony Palmer's movies The Harvest of Sorrow (also working on the project were Valery Gergiev and Mikhail Pletnev) and The Strange Case of Delphina Potocka. She played one of the leading roles in the latter film.
In 2006 Warner Classics International produced an album entitled Valentina Igoshina, wherein Igoshina played works by Modest Mussorgsky and Robert Schumann. Included on the album were Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition and Schumann's Carnaval.
In 2008 Igoshina recorded a work of the waltzes of Frédéric Chopin. The album, entitled Chopin: Complete Waltzes was chosen by Classic FM Magazine as its November 2008 "Disc of the Month". It was produced by Lontano Music and distributed by Warner Classics International
In October 2010 Igoshina recorded Dmitri Shostakovich's First and Second Piano Concertos with the Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss-am-Rhein (near Düsseldorf), and the work is distributed by Warner Classics International. Also in 2010, she appeared in another of Tony Palmer's productions, entitled Valentina Igoshina Plays Chopin.
Many of Igoshina's performances can be seen on YouTube, including Chopin's Fantaisie Impromptu and Liszt's Liebesträume. Her performances have exceeded a million views on that medium.