page_title: Valentina Igoshina
section_title: Professional accomplishments
hierarchical_section_title: Valentina Igoshina / Professional accomplishments
caption_attribution_description: English: Valentina Igoshina
context_page_description: Valentina Igoshina is a Russian classical pianist. She has won several international piano competitions.
context_section_description: In 1993, at age 14, she won first prize at the Arthur Rubinstein Piano Competition in Bydgoszcz, Poland. In 1997, at age 18, she won first prize and a special award at the famed Rachmaninov International Piano Competition in Moscow.
  Igoshina has also competed in four other worldwide piano competitions:
  Second place at the Atlanta International Piano Competition (2002), Georgia
  (A review of Igoshina's performance in this competition can be seen at:  https://creativeloafing.com/content-179108-Barili's-legacy)
  First place at the Concorso Pianistico Internazionale "Premio Guiliano Pecar" (2002), Italy
  Laureate at the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels, (2003)
  Second place at the Jose Iturbi International Piano Competition (2006), Valencia, Spain
  Igoshina appears on the list of great women pianists as compiled at forte-piano-pianissimo.com.
caption: Igoshina at the piano
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