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One of only a handful of musicians worldwide to have been invited by the Trustees to play in the Yvonne Lefébure Auditorium at the Claude Debussy House & Museum, St. Germain-en-Laye, Paris on the Anniversary of the Composer's birth.

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Valentina has also given recital performances for The Rachmaninoff Society's AGM (1999, 2005, & 2009)

(President: Vladimir Ashkenazy).

"You played beautifully" - Natalie Wanamaker-Javier (Great Grand Daughter of Sergei Rachmaninov)

She was invited back for an unprecedented 3rd time in 2008; and played with partner Venera Bojkova, as 'Va i Ve', a 2 piano duet, for their September 2009 AGM.

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Solo CD, of previously unrecorded works by Joachim Raff (1822-1882), the first ever CD devoted exclusively to Raff's piano music, is available, completely re-mastered, on-line from Cameo Classics.

Awarded  out of 5 by The Raff Society.

 "... grand technique and plays brilliantly.  ..recording is very wide range and well placed.  The notes are excellent" -

Carl Bauman - American Record Guide - May/June 2003.

"She is a fluent pianist, and does a fine job .." - Paul Turok  of  Turok's Choice, N.Y., U.S.A., September 2003.

 
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By invitation, has given a recital at St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Sq. (London), in their

 'Pianists of the World'   series.

 
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Has appeared in recital at Chichester Cathedral 7 times (noted for it's quality of programming & Performances/Performers)

    
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Valentina is featured in a soon to be released DVD "Forbidden Music"  about the suppression of German-Jewish

'Romantic era' composers during the late 19th and 20th Centuries, and whose works are now being rediscovered.

 
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New Solo CD available now: World Premier recordings of Piano Works of Zygmunt Noskowski (1846-1909) - recorded for leading Polish label Acte Préalable.

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By invitation, Valentina has performed (30th May 2008) works by Polish Romantic era composer Zygmunt Noskowski at The Warsaw Music Society (WTM), Poland, where Noskowski was himself Director - 120 years ago!

 
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Valentina performed, & recorded for CD, the première public performance (since the composer's death), of Salomon Jadassohn's 'Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1, op 89 in C minor', with The Karelia State Philharmonic Orchestra (Musical Director Marius Stravinsky) in Russia, in December 2008.  Now available - Cameo-Classics CC9026CD

 

Master of Music (Theory)

Lecturer of Music

Asst. Prof. of Music (Performance)

Accompanist & Ensemblist

Theorist & Analyst

Teacher & Advisor