A Russian-Belgian pianist, opera-répétiteur, and coach working in the Palau de les Arts, Valencia. Read more...
ABOUT
Polina Bogdanova was born in St. Petersburg, Russia. In 2009, she graduated with distinction from the Saint-Petersburg Conservatoire, and two years later from the Royal Northern College of Music (Manchester, United Kingdom) with a Master of Music degree (with distinction) with Norma Fisher. In 2011-2013 she was an Artist in Residence at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel in Belgium, working in the piano section under the direction of Abdel Rahman El Bacha and Dmitry Bashkirov as visiting professor; in 2012-2013, she worked with Kirill Gerstein in Stuttgart, Germany.
After moving to Belgium, Polina started work as an accompanist in the classes of José van Dam, Gary Hoffman, and Augustin Dumay, and regularly accompanied classes and master-classes of June Anderson, Helmut Deutsch, Natalie Dessay, Pascal Dusapin, Roberta Alexander, Georg Nigl, Sophie Koch, Dietrich Henschel, Alberto Zedda, and Joan La Barbara.
In 2014-2015, Polina staged an International Opera Academy in Ghent and undertook an internship in La Monnaie Brussels Theatre, where she started to work from the next season onwards along with the International Opera Academy and the Arts Koninklijk Conservatorium in Antwerp. From 2017 to 2022, she worked as a house pianist in Bremen Theatre, Germany and in the meantime regularly performed in the Bremer Philharmonic Orchestra and plays Liederabends with the soloists of the Bremen Theatre.
From 2022 she became a house pianist of Palau de les Arts in Valencia, Spain.
REPERTOIRE
Opera-répétiteur:
Händel
Alcina
Mozart
Don Giovanni, Die Zauberflöte, Die Entführung aus dem Serail
Beethoven
Fidelio
Donizetti Lucia di Lammermoor, L'elisir d'amore, Roberto Devereux
Strauss
Die Fledermaus
Bizet
Carmen
Chabrier L'étoile
Rossini L'italiana in Algeri
Verdi Ernani, Falstaff
Leoncavallo Pagliacci
Tchaikovsky Eugene Onegin, The Queen of Spades
Wagner Tristan und Isolde
Rachmaninoff
Aleko, The Miserly Knight, Francesca da Rimini
Humperdinck
Hänsel und Gretel
Dvořák Rusalka
Massenet Manon
Strauss
Ariadne auf Naxos
Berg
Wozzeck,
Lulu
Bartok
Bluebeard's Castle
Janáček
The Cunning Little Vixen, Jenůfa
Hartmann
Simplicius Simplicissimus
Shostakovich
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
Korngold
Die tote Stadt
Stravinsky
The Rake's Progress
Benoît Mernier
Frühlings Erwachen
Poulenc La voix humaine, Dialogues des carmélites
Dusapin
To be sung
Rihm Jacob Lenz
Chamber version performer / language coach / choir accompanist:
Mozart
Le nozze di Figaro
Rossini
Il barbiere di Siviglia
Verdi
Macbeth, La traviata
Rubinstein
The Demon
Tchaikovsky Iolanta
Puccini
La bohème
Rimsky-Korsakov
The Golden Cockerel
Faure
Pénélope
Prokofiev The Love for Three Oranges
Stravinsky
The Rake's Progress
Dallapiccola Il prigioniero
EXPERIENCES
Song repertoire:
Schubert (including Die schöne Müllerin, Winterreise and Schwanengesang)
Schumann (including Dichterliebe and Frauen-Liebe und Leben)
Brahms (including Vier ernste Gesänge and Zigeunerlieder)
Wolf
Richard Strauss
Mahler (including Kindertotenlieder, Des Knaben Wunderhorn, Das Lied von der Erde and Rückert-Lieder)
Fauré
Debussy (including Les Chansons de Bilitis and Fêtes galantes)
Poulenc (including Banalités and Fiançailles pour rire)
Mussorgsky (including The Nursery and Songs and Dances of Death)
Rachmaninov (including completes opuses no4, 14, 21, 26, 34 and 38)
Britten (including Les Illuminations and The Poet's Echo)
Tastendienst: Mozart Die Zauberflöte, Janáček The Cunning Little Vixen, Strauss Rosenkavalier, Stravinsky The Rake's Progress, Berg Wozzeck and Lulu, Rihm Jacob Lenz.
Piano part in the orchestra (piano/celesta): Tchaikovsky Nutcracker suite, Mahler Rückert-Lieder, Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition, Stravinsky The Firebird suite, Ravel Bolero and Rhapsodie Espagnole, Menotti Introduction, March and Shepherds Dance, Simpson Cello concerto, Messiaen Turangalîla-Symphonie
From 2013 regularly played entrance auditions to: Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel (violin, cello and vocal departments), La Monnaie Theatre Academy (both opera and orchestra, including Academy), International Opera Academy, Theatre Bremen, Bremer Philharmonic Orchestra and Symphoniker Hamburg (violin, cello, double-bass, clarinet, oboe, trumpet, trombone, timpani)
Had been repertoire coach in International Opera Academy in 2015-2017 as well as guest professor in Koninklijk Conservatorium Antwerpen and regular guest coach in La Monnaie Academy
Had been Russian language coach in Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel and International Opera Academy; as well as Russian coach for several production in La Monnaie theatre. Other languages: English, German, French, Spanish
Since 2009 regularly accompanied violin and cello classes in Royal Northern College of Music and in Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel (classes of Augustin Dumay and Gary Hoffman). Apart of concertos has in repertoire sonatas by Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Brahms, Schumann, Grieg, Debussy, Ravel, Faure, Franck, Poulenc, Kodály, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Rachmaninoff and Schnittke
- Violin: sonatas by Mozart, Beethoven, Debussy, Brahms, Schumann, Grieg, Ravel, Faure, Franck, Poulenc, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Schnittke
- Cello: sonatas by Beethoven, Brahms, Schubert, Chopin, Debussy, Kodály, Rachmaninoff, Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Martinu
- Trio: Beethoven, Brahms, Rachmaninoff, Shostakovich, Dvořák, Ravel, Suk, Schumann
- Quintets: Beethoven, Schubert, Dvořák, Brahms, Shostakovich, Franck, Fauré
Polina Bogdanova © 2024 (photo by Yunming Wang)