Igoshina mussorgsky biography

Musical artist

Valentina Igoshina (born 4 November 1978 in Bryansk, Bryansk Oblast) is a Russian classicalpianist. She has won several international piano competitions.

Igoshina mussorgsky biography

Biography

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 RubinsteinPiano Competition in Bydgoszcz, Pola