MP3 Valentin Mihai Bogdan - The Grands of Piano

Romantic piano music.

13 MP3 Songs in this album (66:05) !
Related styles: CLASSICAL: Keyboard Music, CLASSICAL: Chopin

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A native of Romania, Dr. Valentin Mihai Bogdan has started his music studies at the age of four. Through out his career he has studied piano, organ, music theory, composition and conducting. Valentin Bogdan graduated from the Brasov Institute of Music. Since his move to United States in 1997, Valentin graduated Magna cum Laude from Wayne State University with a undergraduate degree in Piano Performance, and then accepted a full scholarship to continued his studies at Michigan State University from where he received a Masters of Music degree in 2005. He graduated with a Doctor of Musical Art degree from University of Miami, Florida in 2008.



Since the age of 14, Valentin was selected to be part of the Brasov Institute of Music orchestra which toured extensively throughout Europe and Asia in countries like Italy, Netherlands, Great Britain, France and Jordan. In the United States, Valentin was a member of the Jethro Marsh Trio which focused on bringing to life music written for the piano, violin and clarinet. Besides this collaboration, Valentin has also performed in recital with great virtuosi: Risto Nikolic, Boki Cvetkovski and Teddy Abesamis, Jethor Marsh, Mickey Ireland and Julia Mortyakova. Valentin's most notable chamber music appearances are represented by full trio recitals at Hart Hall in East Lansing, Novi FCPC Concert Series in Novi, Michigan a full recital at Schaver Recital Hall in Detroit, Michigan as well as two performances of Faure piano trio at the Aria International Festival in London, Canada.



Besides chamber music, Valentin has also a great affinity for performing solo piano repertoire. His playing was characterized by critics as very fluent technically and extremely musical. Valentin has performed numerous solo recitals in both United States as well as Europe undertaking a wide variety of repertoire from Bach to Schonberg. Even under great pressure, Valentin performs with grace and poise. This is proven by the many positive results that he had at piano competitions. He was awarder the Second Prize at the Varna International Piano Competition in 2008. He was the winner of the Wayne State Concerto competition in 2002, he received the second place at the Birmingham Musicale the same year. Previously, he won the Livonia Arts Commission Music Competition. He was also the winner of the Berta Salon Piano Competition.


He appeared as a soloist with the Varna Philarmonic (Bulgaria) in 2008, the Wayne State University Symponic Orchestra (Detroit, MI) in 2002.

He is a student of Diana Apan, Robert Conway, Rosalina Sackstein and Paul Posnak for Chamber Music.