Irina Bogdanovic

Composer Irina Bogdanovich is a striking new talent from Russia. She graduated with honors from the Choral Conducting Department at Moscow University and then from the Piano Department at the University of Yekaterinburg. Asastudent she twice won the 1st Prize at the Russian National Student Piano Competition. Currently she is the Conductor and Artistic Director of the Warsaw University Choir, which won the 3rd Prize in the International Choral Music Festival in Randers. Under her stewardship the Choir has developed a very high profile. At the 6. ERA New Horizons IFF in 2006 Irina conducted a 60-piece orchestra and 80-person choir to accompany Sergei Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky at an open-air concert performed to an audience of 12,000 in Wrocław.