Valentina Igoshina....

Valentina IGOSHINA was born in Bryansk (Russia) in 1978. She graduated from the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, where she studied under Larissa Dedova and Sergei Dorensky. Valentina IGOSHINA has won prizes at several international competitions: the Rubinstein Competition in Poland in 1993 (1st Prize), the Sergeii Rachmaninov International Piano Competition in Moscow in 1997 (1st Prize), the Atlanta International Piano Competition (2nd Prize), the Queen Elizabeth International Competition in Brussels in 2003 (finalist) and the José Iturbi International Piano Competition in Valencia (Spain) in 2006 (2nd prize).

“Russian pianist Valentina Igoshina played Chopin’s with heartbreaking nuance. Those who doubt Chopin’s intentions to have all 24 played at one sitting would have had their doubts dispelled by hearing how she subtly strung them together, with perfect control and dynamic shading and phrasing. It was the artistic performance of the day. Her Rachmaninov B-flat Minor Sonata was likewise idiomatic and meltingly phrased. Igoshina’s performance showed the difference between being a good pianist and being an artist.” wrote Keely Brown in Atlanta. Valentina IGOSHINA has performed at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London in the Harrods International Piano Series. She has given recitals at the Tonhalle in Zurich, in Milan in the La Societa dei Concerti series, in Paris at the Théatre de l’Athénée, in Toulouse at the Cloitre des Jacobins and has participated in many festivals: Radio France-Montpellier, La Roque d’Anthéron (France), Ravello Music (Italy), Dushniki Zdroi (Poland), Povoa de Varzim, the Belem Festival in Lisbon (Portugal) and the Styriarte Festival in Graz (Austria).
She has been invited to perform with the Halle Orchestra and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in the United Kingdom, the Concertgebouw Royal Orchestra in Amsterdam.

Her engagements on 2008 included concerts with the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra (Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on a theme by Paganini), the Santiago Chile Orchestra (Chopin’s Concerto n°1), the Galicia Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (Prokofiev’s Concerto n°2), the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra (Tchaikovsky’s Concerto n°1) and the Brandenburg Symphony Orchestra (Tchaikovsky’s Concerto n°1) and she also gave recitals in Ludwigsburg, Jersey, Santiago de Chile, Paris, and Cintra.
On 2009, she will perform in Opole (Poland), St. Louis (USA), Solnok (Hungary), Luxemburg, St. Etienne (France), Macao (China) ….

Valentina IGOSHINA released her first recording (Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition and Schumann’s Carnival) with Warner Classics International in 2005 and her second CD was released on July 2008 by Lontano (distributed by Warner Classics International).
She has also performed at live broadcasts by the BBC and Classic FM in the United Kingdom and can also be seen and heard playing pieces by Rachmaninov and Chopin in two biographies by Tony Palmer, and The Harvest of Sorrow (1998) on S.Rachmaninov, and The Mystery of Chopin: The Strange Case of Delphina Potocka (1999, released as a DVD in 2001). A DVD was released by Claverdons Film in London (distributed by Warner Vision).
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