Valentina Igoshina
Valentina Igoshina was born in Russia in 1978. She graduated from the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, where she studied under Larissa Dedova, Sergei Dorensky and Nikolai Lugansky.
Valentina is a prizewinner of several important international competitions: the Rubinstein Competition in Poland in 1993 (1st Prize), the Sergei Rachmaninov International Piano Competition in Moscow in 1997 (1st Prize), the Queen Elisabeth International Competition in Brussels in 2003 (finalist) and the José Iturbi International Piano Competition in Valencia 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, the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, the Santiago Chile Orchestra, the Galicia Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Brandenburg Symphony Orchestra, etc. She gave recitals in Paris, Moscow, Madrid, Lyon, Saint Louis, Valencia, Luxemburg, Ludwigsburg, Santiago de Chile, Lisbon, etc.
Valentina Igoshina recorded Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, Schumann’s Carnaval, Rachmaninov’s Corelli Variations, Complete Chopin Valses and both Schostakovitch concertos. We also can see her playing pieces by Rachmaninov and Chopin in two movies by Tony Palmer: “The Harvest of Sorrow” on Rachmaninov, and “The Strange Case of Delphina Potocka”. Both DVD’s are distributed by Warner Classics.
She dedicates a big part of her time to young musicians, teaching permanently in a National Supérieur Conservatory in Paris (CNSMDP) and a Royal Conservatory of Brussels, and giving masterclasses during the summer académies in Poland, France and Belgium.
