14 Facts About Valentina Igoshina

Valentina Igoshina began studying piano with her mother, and first took lessons at home at the age of four.

Valentina Igoshina has lived in France for the past two decades, and travels extensively for concerts and recitals.

Valentina Igoshina appears on the list of great women pianists as compiled at forte-piano-pianissimo.

Valentina Igoshina has been invited to play with many notable orchestras, among them:.

Valentina Igoshina has appeared on multiple occasions with several of the foregoing orchestras.

Valentina Igoshina has performed in the Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory.

Valentina Igoshina has appeared with orchestras in Krakow, Poland; Sacramento, California; Gdansk, Poland; St Louis, Missouri ; Saint-Etienne, France; Tokyo, Japan; Moscow, St Petersburg, and Bryansk in Russia; Sofia, Bulgaria; Budapest, Hungary ; and many other venues.

Valentina Igoshina has often served as a judge of piano competitions at venues throughout Europe and elsewhere.

Valentina Igoshina has participated in numerous recitals and musical festivals; a few are listed as follows:.

Valentina Igoshina has made live recordings on BBC Radio 3, ABC Classic FM, and BBC Scotland, as well as the sound tracks for Tony Palmer's movies The Harvest of Sorrow and The Strange Case of Delphina Potocka.

Valentina Igoshina played one of the leading roles in the latter film.

In 2008 Valentina Igoshina recorded a work of the waltzes of Frederic Chopin.

In October 2010 Valentina Igoshina recorded Dmitri Shostakovich's First and Second Piano Concertos with the Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss-am-Rhein, and the work is distributed by Warner Classics International.

Valentina Igoshina's performances have exceeded a million views on that medium.