This is Valentina Igoshina playing Chopin’s Fantasie Impromptu in C Sharp Minor, Op. 66. Apologies for the shoddy editing! Check out my channel for information about Valentina and her music
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Valentina Igoshina in March 2010 at Rickman Auditorium in Arnold, Missouri
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Born | November 4, 1978 (age 35) |
Origin | Russia |
Genres | classical |
Occupations | classical pianist |
Instruments | piano |
Labels | Warner Classics International |
Website | www.valentina-igoshina.com |
Valentina Igoshina (b. 4 November 1978 Bryansk, Bryansk Oblast, Russia) is a Russian classical pianist.
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 and became a student 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. Between recitals and concerts, she currently divides her time between Moscow and Paris.[3] Her home in France is near Giverny in Haute-Normandie.