In Polish music since 1999.

Irina Bogdanovich is a conductor, pianist, composer and artistic director of the Academic Choir of the University of Warsaw 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 the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Sinfonia Varsovia Orchestra and the Beethoven Academy Orchestra.

In the Concert Season 2021/22 she works also with the Artur Rubinstein Philharmonic Chorus on selected projects.

One of her greatest successes was the production of the music and film show “Alexander Nevsky”, hel in the FOCUS office building in Warsaw, to which she reconstructed a part of Sergei Prokofiev’s music (2003).

Appreciated at numerous national and international festivals and competitions (eight times Grand Prix, ten times first place, two times second place, four times third place, five 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.

She graduated with honours from two Russian music universities (Moscow and Yekaterinburg) in choral conducting and piano faculty; in 2017 – internship in the conducting master class of Prof. Tomasz Bugaj of the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music. 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, she is a member of the Phonographic Academy presenting Fryderyk Polish music awards.

She executes piano recitals, both at home and abroad. Irina also provides an accompaniment for outstanding soloists. She is the author of soundtrack for the film “The Lost town of Świteź” (dir. 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” (dir. Edyta Sewruk). Irina wrote a song-cycle for choir and instruments called “Łąka” (“Meadow”) to the words of a famous Polish poet, Bolesław Leśmian (2015). 

Irina Bogdanovich founded EMotivo (2016). She is an 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). More info: https://www.emotivo-vox.com/.

“She’s Polish by choice” – that’s how Paulina Młynarska refers to Irina 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.