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Valentina Igoshina is
a brilliant young Russian pianist. She is famous for her profound
interpretations of Chopin's music. In 2001, an eminent English producer Tony
Palmer invited her to participate in his film "The Strange Case of Delphina
Potocka - the Mystery of Chopin", where she recorded some of Chopin's
compositions and featured as one of the stars in the film, performing one of the
leading roles. Before that, she recorded Rachmaninov's works for Palmer's
documentary film, "The Harvest of Sorrow", dedicated to the great Russian
composer.
Valentina Igoshina was born in the city of Briansk to a family of musicians. She
studied music at the Central Music School under the Moscow Tchaikovsky
Conservatoire in the class of Larissa Dedova. In 1996, she entered the
Conservatoire where she continued her education with her teacher and later in
the class of professor Sergei Dorensky. In 2001, she started her postgraduate
course at the Conser-vatoire and became a soloist of the Moscow Philharmony.
Valentina Igoshina is a prizewinner in the Rubinstein International piano
competition (1993, 1st prize) and Rachmaninov International piano competition in
Moscow (1997, 1st prize and special award). In 2002, she was awarded the Second
Prize in A. Barili International piano competition in Atlanta, USA and First
Prize in Inter-national piano competition in Gorizia, Italy. In 2003, Valentina
Igoshina was a finalist in the famous Queen Elisa-beth International piano
Competition in Brussels, Belgium. Miss Igoshina toured in Poland, Hungary,
Yugo-slavia, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Austria, Great Britain, Luxemburg,
Japan, Australia. She participated in numerous music festivals, among them -
Ohrid Summer, Dushniki Zdori, Bath Festival, Ravello Music Festival, Cho-pin and
George Sand Festival in France, Rachmaninov Festival in Lon-don. In 2002, she
appeared in Queen Elisabeth Hall in London for the first time in "Harrods
International Piano Series". In 2003 Miss Igoshina took part in Chopin Festival
in Marianske Lazne, Czechia. In 2004, she participated in Radio France Festival
in Montpellier.
Miss Igoshina played with London Philharmonic, Scottish BBC Symphony Orchestra,
Melburn Symphony Or-chestra, Sofia Symphony Orchestra. She has close creative
partnership with conductors A.Vedernikov, A. Titov, A.Witt (Poland), M. Stenz
(Australia). She tours a lot in Russian cities, gives master classes. Her
repertoire includes concertos by Mozart, Beethoven, Cho-pin, Grieg, Brahms,
Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, solo compositions by
Schumann, Liszt, Rachmaninov, Chopin, Mussorgsky. Valentina recorded works by
Rachma-ninov and Chopin for a CD which was released in the Excellence series in
2001. Her performances were broadcasted by BBC-Radio 3, Classical FM, Scottish
BBC.
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