Dmitri Kogan
Native name Дмитрий Павлович Коган
Born October 27, 1978
Moscow, USSR
Origin Moscow
Died August 29, 2017 (aged 38)
Genres Classical
Occupation(s) Violinist
Instruments Violin
Dmitri Pavlovich Kogan (Russian: Дмитрий Павлович Коган, October 27, 1978 – August 29, 2017) was a Russian violinist and an Honoured Artist of the Russian Federation.
Dmitri Kogan was born in Moscow, USSR, into a famous musical dynasty.
His grandfather, Leonid Kogan, was an outstanding violinist, his grandmother, Elizabeth Gilels – a famous violinist and a teacher, his father, Pavel Kogan, was a conductor, and his mother, Lyubov Kazinskaya, – a pianist who graduated from the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music.
He began playing the violin at the age of 6 in the Central Music School of Moscow State P.I. Tchaikovsky Conservatory.
From 1996 to 1999 Kogan was a student of the Moscow Conservatory (the class of I.S. Bezrodny) and almost at the same time (1996–2000) he was a student of the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland, studying with I.S. Bezrodny and Tuomas Haapanen.
At the age of 10 Dmitri performed for the first time accompanied by a symphony orchestra, and when he was 15 he played with an orchestra in the Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory.
Kogan made his debut in Great Britain and the US in 1997. He regularly performed at the most prestigious concert halls of Europe, Asia, America, Australia, Middle East, the CIS and Baltic countries.
Kogan participated at many prestigious music festivals around the world , such as the Corinthian Summer Festival (Austria), Menton Music Festival (France), Montreux Jazz Festival (Switzerland), Perth Festival (Scotland). He also participated in the Chereshnevy Les Open-Art Festival, Russian Winter (Russkaya Zima) Festival, Music Kremlin Festival, Andrey Sakharov International Art Festival and many others in places like Athens, Vilnius, Shanghai, Ogden and Helsinki..
Niccolò Paganini’s cycle of 24 caprices, long considered impossible to perform, held a special place in Kogan’s repertoire, which comprised almost all great concertos for violin and orchestra. Only a few violinists are capable of performing the whole cycle.
On April 19, 2009, Kogan was the first violinist to play a concert for explorers at the North Pole.
On January 15, 2010, Kogan was awarded the honorary title of Honoured Artist of the Russian Federation.
The Kogan Fund for Support of Outstanding Cultural Projects was created in April 2011 by Kogan and a patron of arts, Chair of the AVS-group Holding Company Valery Saveliev.
The public phase of the first project promoted by the Fund was Kogan’s concert in the Pillar Hall of the House of the Unions on May 26, 2011. He played five violins by Stradivari, Guarneri, Amati, Guadagnini and Vuillaume. He continued the show, “Five Great Violins in One Concert”, at the top concert venues in Russia and abroad. In January 2013, he performed it at the World Economic Forum in Davos in the presence of the Prime-Minister of Russia Dmitri Medvedev and representatives of the world’s political and business elites.
The Robrecht violin, created in 1728 by Bartolomeo Giuseppe Antonio Guarneri (delGesù), a renowned luthier of Cremona, was purchased by the Fund and presented to Kogan in Milan on September 1, 2011.
In 2015, Kogan presented a new project, accompanying performance of The Four Seasons, Vivaldi and Astor Piazzolla with video projection.
Kogan released ten CDs in collaboration with Delos, Conforza, DV Classics and other record labels.
In April 2013 Dmitri Kogan recorded a charity album titled ‘The Time of High Music’ in the Pillar Hall of the House of the Unions in Moscow.
Over 30,000 copies of the album were donated to music schools, children’s art schools, colleges and higher education institutions in all 83 subjects of the Russian Federation. The Time of High Music, the violinist’s charity tour across the 83 subjects of the Russian Federation, began in Tver on June 15, 2013.
Discography
2002 Brahms. Three sonatas for violin and piano.
2005 Shostakovich. The two violin concertos.
2006 Two violins.
2007 The violin sonatas by Brahms and Frank. Pieces for violin and piano.
2008 Virtuoso pieces for violin and piano.
2009 CD dedicated to the 65th Anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War.
2010 Compositions for violin and chamber orchestra.
2013 “Five Great Violins” (Russian edition)
2013 “Five Great Violins” (foreign edition)
2013 “Time of High Music”. Charitable CD.
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