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The Russian born Polish, choral conductor, pianist and composer Irina Bogdanovich, graduated with honours from the Choral Conducting Department at the Pedagogical and Music University and also with honours from the Piano Department at the M. Mussorgsky State Conservatoire in Yekaterinburg; in 2017 - internship in the conducting master class of Professor Tomasz Bugaj of the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music.
Irina Bogdanovich is in Polish music since 1999. She is the Conductor and Artistic Director of the University of Warsaw Choir since 2002. In addition to working on a cappella music she carries out immense artistic projects collaborating with the most outstanding Polish instrumental ensembles including: Sinfonia Varsovia, Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Warsaw Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, Chopin Academia Orchestra, Wrocław Philharmonic Orchestra, Beethoven Academy Orchestra, Polish Royal Symphonic Orchestra, Warsaw’s New Chamber Orchestra, Baltic Philharmonic Orchestra, and Sinfonia Iuventus.
Irina Bogdanovich is involved in various artistic projects. She hosts the Children’s Musical Gardens Festival in Warsaw and composes music for movies. She is the author of soundtrack for the film The Lost town of Świteź (Director: Kamil Polak) which received more tha 20 prizes in many international film festivals and won the best soundtrack prize in London. She composed also soundtrack for the short film Przedtem, potem (Director: Edyta Sewruk). She wrote a song-cycle for choir and instruments called Łąka (Meadow) to the words of a famous Polish poet, Bolesław Leśmian (2015). One of her greatest successes was the production of the music and film show Alexander Nevsky, held in the FOCUS office building in Warsaw, to which she herself reconstructed a part of Sergei Prokofiev’s music (2003). She has conducted such vocal-instrumental masterpieces, e.g. J.S. Bach's Mass in B Minor (BWV 232), W.A. Mozart's Great Mass in C minor, and Verdi’s Requiem.
Irina Bogdanovich was awarded with best conductor awards at the International Festival of Orthodox Church Music in Hajówka in 2005, the H.M. Górecki International Choral Music Festival in Rybnik in 2006, and the Legnica Cantat Choir Tournament in 2011. In 2006 she won the Fryderyk Award for Best Polish Music Recording for the album "Baird, Łukaszewski, Błażewicz, Borkowski". Appreciated at numerous national and international festivals and competitions (8 times Grand Prix, 10 times first place, 1 time 2nd place, 4 times 3rd place, 5 times special prize for the best conductor), she has been invited to conduct workshops and participate in thematic conferences, both in Poland and abroad. She collaborates with SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, giving lectures on Entrepreneurial Leadership in Creative Industries.
Irina Bogdanovich performs piano recitals, both at home and abroad. She also provides an accompaniment for outstanding soloists. She founded EMotivo (2016). She Artistic Director of this vocal group, which sung in such places as Kremenets (Ukraine), Moscow (Russia), Bologna (Italy), Heiden (Switzerland). She executes with EMotivo a project "The absolutely most beutiful songs" for EMotivo and jazz trio originally written for one of the best Polish singers (2019).
She is committed to improving Polish-Russian cultural dialogue and her contribution to that cause was recognized in 2017 and 2019 by the Centre for Polish-Russian Dialogue and Understanding. Apart from that, since 2008 she has been a member of the Phonographic Academy presenting Fryderyk Polish music awards. "She’s Polish by choice" - that’s how Paulina Młynarska refers to Irina Bogdanovich in a documentary film about her. What interests her most in the world of music is the shaping of the melody and the expressive performance of grand works, which have sometimes sunk into oblivion. |
