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PROGRAMME

Chopin Waltzes
Prokoflev Piano Sonata No 6

BIOGRAPHY

Valentina Igoshina is playing is full of charm, simplicity and humour, combining refinement and vigour.. Alain Cochard (PIANISTE magazine, September-October 2006).

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 Queen Elizabeth International Competition in Brussels in 2003 (finalist) and the José Iturbi International Piano Competition in Valencia (Spain) in 2006 (2nd prize).

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 and the Galicia Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in Spain. Her forthcoming engagements include concerts with the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra (Rachmaninov's Rhapsody on a theme by Paganini), the Santiago Chile Orchestra (Chopin's Concerto no 1) and the Galicia Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (Prokofiev's Concerto no 2).

Valentina IGOSHINA released her first recording (Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition and Schumann's Carnival) with Warner Classics International in 2005.

She has 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, 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).

Her second CD released by Lontano (and distributed by Warner Classics and Jazz) includes the complete waltzes of Frederic Chopin.