Polina Bogdanova piano

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

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

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

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


  • Vocal accompanist


    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)


  • Orchestral pianist


    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


  • Instrumental / opera auditions accompanist


    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)


  • Repertoire coach


    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


  • Language coach


    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


  • Instrumental accompanist


    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


  • Chamber music pianist


    - 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, Dvořák, Brahms, Shostakovich, Franck, Fauré

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