Valentina Igoshina
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Valentina Igoshina | |
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 Valentina Igoshina | |
| Background information | |
| Born | 4 November 1978 |
| Origin | Russia |
| Genres | classical |
| Occupation | classical pianist |
| Instrument | piano |
| Labels | Warner Classics International |
| Website | www |
Valentina Igoshina (born 4 November 1978 in Bryansk, Bryansk Oblast) is a Russian classical pianist. She has won several international piano competitions.
Valentina Igoshina began studying piano with her mother,[1] 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 for gifted students and became a pupil of Sergei Dorensky and Larissa Dedova at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory.[2]
Igoshina has also served as a teacher of piano at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow. Currently she is a professor at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels and at the Conservatoire Maurice Ravel in Paris. She has lived in France for the past two decades, and travels extensively for concerts and recitals.[3]
Professional accomplishments
In 1993, at age 14, she won first prize at the Arthur Rubinstein Piano Competition in Bydgoszcz, Poland.[4] In 1997, at age 18, she won first prize and a special award at the famed Rachmaninov International Piano Competition in Moscow.[5] In 2000, she was given an honorable mention at the XIV International Chopin Piano Competition.
Igoshina has also competed in four other worldwide piano competitions:
- Second place at the Atlanta International Piano Competition (2002), Georgia[6]
- First place at the Concorso Pianistico Internazionale "Premio Giuliano Pecar" (2002), Italy[5]
- Laureate at the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels, (2003)[7]
- Second place at the José Iturbi International Piano Competition (2006), Valencia, Spain[7]
Igoshina appears on the list of great women pianists as compiled at forte-piano-pianissimo.com.[8]
