Polina Bogdanova received her piano education at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester and the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel in Belgium, studying with Norma Fisher, Abdel Rahman El Bacha, Dmitry Bashkirov and Kirill Gerstein.
Today, her artistic activity focuses on collaborative piano, vocal coaching and répétiteur work. Her repertoire includes Lieder, chamber music, opera, orchestral piano and instrumental accompaniment.
Vocal accompanist
Schubert (including Die schöne Müllerin, Winterreise and Schwanengesang)
Schumann (including Dichterliebe and Frauenliebe und Leben)
Brahms (including Vier ernste Gesänge and Zigeunerlieder)
Hugo Wolf
Richard Strauss
Mahler (including Kindertotenlieder, Des Knaben Wunderhorn and Das Lied von der Erde and Rückert-Lieder)
Gabriel 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 complete opp. 4, 14, 21, 26, 34 and 38)
Orchestral pianist
Tastendienst:
Mozart Die Zauberflöte
Janáček The Cunning Little Vixen
Strauss Der Rosenkavalier
Stravinsky The Rake’s Progress
Berg Wozzeck, Lulu
Rihm Jakob Lenz
Piano part in the orchestra (piano/celesta):
Tchaikovsky Nutcracker Suite
Mahler Rückert-Lieder
Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition
Stravinsky The Firebird Suite
Ravel Boléro, Rapsodie espagnole
Menotti Introduction, March and Shepherds’ Dance
Simpson Cello Concerto
Messiaen Turangalîla-Symphonie
Instrumental/opera auditions accompanist
Since 2013, regularly accompanying entrance auditions for the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel (violin, cello and vocal departments), La Monnaie Academy (opera and orchestra departments), International Opera Academy, Theater Bremen, Bremer Philharmoniker and Symphoniker Hamburg (violin, cello, double bass, clarinet, oboe, trumpet, trombone and timpani).
Chamber music pianist
Violin
Sonatas by Mozart, Beethoven, Debussy, Brahms, Schumann, Grieg, Ravel, Fauré, Franck, Poulenc, Prokofiev and Schnittke.
Cello
Sonatas by Beethoven, Brahms, Schubert, Chopin, Debussy, Kodály, Rachmaninoff, Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Martinů and Schnittke.
Trio
Works by Beethoven, Brahms, Rachmaninoff, Shostakovich, Dvořák, Ravel, Suk and Schumann.
Quintets
Works by Beethoven, Schubert, Dvořák, Brahms, Shostakovich, Franck and Fauré.
Instrumental accompanist
Since 2009, regularly accompanying violin and cello classes at the Royal Northern College of Music and the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel (classes of Augustin Dumay and Gary Hoffman).
Apart from concertos, the repertoire includes sonatas by Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Brahms, Schumann, Grieg, Debussy, Ravel, Fauré, Franck, Poulenc, Kodály, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Rachmaninoff and Schnittke.