“Irina’s playing subjugates with a supply of spiritual energy and a rarely found precision of touch. The sense of form with natural melodic lines, emotional looseness and restraint manifests the right balance between piano and orchestra.”E. Mishina , “Culture”.
“The pianist Irina Bogdanova – one of outstanding figures in a cohort of modern pianists.”“Musical review”.
“Her Chopin is filled with passion and excitement, plus hair-raising technique. Irina Bogdanova serves the music of Chopin with dignity, perception, and great skill, all cause for celebration.”“Fanfare Magazine”
Irina Bogdanova was born in Moscow. She started taking lessons in music at the age of 5. At the age of 7 she joined the Central Music School under the Moscow State Conservatory studying with Professor Mndoyantz, Professor Gornostaeva and Professor Dorensky. She graduated from the Moscow State Conservatory and in 2009 completed a Postgraduate Course there. Additionally she studied with Professor Margulis at the UCLA University (Los Angeles) and with Professor Yablonskaya at the Guilliard School, (New York). Since then she has been performing in Russia and abroad giving solo recitals, as well as chamber concerts and performing with symphony orchestras to critical acclaim.
“Irina’s rendering subjugates with a supply of spiritual energy and a rarely found precise touch. The sense of form with natural melodic lines, emotional looseness and restraint manifests the right balance between piano and orchestra.”E. Mishina , “Culture”.
“Her Chopin is filled with passion and excitement, plus hair-raising technique. Irina Bogdanova serves the music of Chopin with dignity, perception, and great skill, all cause for celebration.”Dave Saemann, “Fanfare Magazine”.
Irina studied at the UCLA University Irina Bogdanova was born in Moscow. She started taking lessons in music at the age of 5. At the age of 7 she joined the Central Music School under the Moscow State Conservatory studying with Professor Mndoyantz, Professor Gornostaeva and Professor Dorensky. She graduated from the Moscow State Conservatory and in 2009 completed a Postgraduate Course there. Additionally she studied with Professor Margulis at the UCLA University (Los Angeles) and with Professor Yablonskaya at the Guilliard School, (New York). Irina Bogdanova had studied at the International Piano Academy “Incontri col Maestro” with Professor Boris Petrushansky in Imola (Italy) and at Talent Music Master Courses in Brescia with Professor Andrea Bonatta. She also has improved her skills with Piotr Paleczny, Dmitry Bashkirov and Oleg Maisenberg. Irina has been performing in Russia and abroad giving solo recitals, as well as chamber concerts and performing with symphony orchestras to critical acclaim.
Irina Bogdanova is a laureate of numerous International piano competitions: a winner of the First Alemdar Karamanov piano Competition (Ukraine); First Prize and the Grand Prix at the International Puigcerda Piano competition (Spain); Third prize at the International Competition “Riviera del Conero”, (Italy). Second prize at the International “Ennio Porrino” Piano Competition (Cagliari, Italy) where the First Prize was not awarded; A Diploma at the Val Tidone “Silvio Bengalli” competition, Third Prize at the International competition Premio pianistico Francesco Moscato in Airola, Italy; First Prize at the “Note Sul Mare” International piano competition, Ischia (Italy). In 2015 Irina also became a laureate of Dorothy MacKenzie Artist Recognition Scholarship Award in New York, (USA).
Irina Bogdanova has played in all major Concert Halls of Moscow and abroad. She appears as a soloist, giving recitals and playing piano concertos with many famous orchestras and conductors. Among them M.Sherbakov, R.Torre Liedo, C.Pyhrr, V.Dudarova, D.Orlov, A.Skoulsky, Giulio Svegliado.
Irina Bogdanova has appeared at Palais des Congres (Tours, France), Congress Hall (Augsburg, Germany) Wiener Saal Mozarteum (Salzburg, Austria), Shoenberg Hall (Los Angeles, USA), Yamaha Centre (New York, USA), Gasteig Centre “Carl Orff-Saal” (Munich, Germany), Kremlin’s Concert Hall (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia), Gnessin’s Concert Hall (Moscow, Russia), Philharmonic Concert Hall (Samara, Russia), the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, the Small Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, The Rachmaninov Hall at the Moscow Conservatory, The Chamber Hall of the Moscow Philharmonic, the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall (Moscow, Russia), Glazunov Hall (St. Petersburg, Russia), Moscow International House of Music (Moscow, Russia), Philharmonia Hall of Kazan (Kazan, Russia), Sala Marieli Palazzo Monsignani (Imola, Italy), Seongam Arts Centre, Suwon Arts Centre, Hwasung Art Hall (South Korea), Museo Diocesano, (Brescia, Italy); Sala di Villa Rina (Cittadella, Italy), Teatro all Scala (Il Museo, Milano).
Since 2008 has been a member of the Moscow State Philharmonic, where she annually appears with recital, chamber programs and with the orchestra.
Irina is a participant of various music festivals. Among them Yuri Bashmet’s festival (Tours, France), Festival of Russian art (Cannes, France), “Moscow Autumn” (Moscow, Russia), “Generation of the stars” (Russia), R. Wagner Festival in Augsburg, Germany; Cittadella International Music Festival (Italy); International Keyboard Institute and Festival at Hunter College, New York (USA); Piano City, Milano (Italy).
Her recordings include CDs for “Melodiya”, “Classical Records” Labels, a CD of the complete Etudes of Chopin on the Quartz Music Label (2014) .
Irina Bogdanova plays Chopin Études was released on the Quartz record label and has been received by the British press with critical acclaim.
This new release has received airplay on BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction and CD Review as well as being featured in leading British magazines from Gramophone to BBC Music Magazine.
Julian Haylock writing for BBC Music Magazine gives the recording an impressive 4 stars, and notes that the disc is ‘recorded with a clarity that recalls Pollini’s 1970 account for DG’ and remarks that ‘Bogdanova keeps a tight rein on Chopin’s poetic fantasy, making each Étude a microcosm of sequential ingenuity’.
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