Irina Bogdanova

Irina Bogdanova has played in all major concert halls of Moscow and abroad. She appears regularly as soloist, gives recitals and plays piano concertos with leading orchestras and conductors. Among them M. Sherbakov, R. Torre Liedo, C. Pyhrr, V. Dudarova, D. Orlov and A. Skoulsky.

In May 2013 Irina Bogdanova successfully toured South Korea where she performed Rachmaninov Second Piano Concerto and Tchaikovsky First Piano Concerto with the Moscow State Symphony Orchestra under Dmitry Orlov. Irina Bogdanova has appeared at Palais des Congres (Tours, France), Congress Hall (Augsburg, Germany), Wiener Saal Mozarteum (Salzburg, Austria), Schoenberg 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 at the Moscow Conservatory, the Small Hall at 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) and Sala Marieli Palazzo Monsignani (Imola, Italy).

In 2013-14 Irina Bogdanova gave a series of concerts in Russia with a special programme of solo piano works dedicated to the 140th anniversary of Segrey Rachmaninov’s birth. The unique programme spanned a large portion of the composer’s piano works – from the very first opuses (Melody Op.3, Valse Op.10, Moments Musicaux Op.16) to mature works (Préludes Op.32, Étude-tableaux Op.39, No.9) and later works (Variations on a Theme of Corelli Op.42). Irina’s musical talent has been praised by many outstanding musicians, among them Mstislav Rostropovitch, Vladimir Spivakov, Pavel Gililov and Dmitry Bashkirov.

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