Valentina Igoshina
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Valentina Igoshina
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| Background information | |
| Born | 4 November 1978 |
| Origin | Russia |
| Genres | classical |
| Occupation(s) | classical pianist |
| Instruments | piano |
| Labels | Warner Classics International |
| Website | www |
Valentina Igoshina (born 4 November 1978 in Bryansk, Bryansk Oblast) is a Russian classical pianist.
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.
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
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:
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