Ludmilla Kogan – Correpetition Viola

Ludmilla Kogan began piano lessons at the age of 6 and became a junior student at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin at the age of 12 in the class of Prof. Galina Iwanzowa, where she also began her regular studies in 2007. From 2009-2010, her Erasmus studies took her to the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, where she studied in the class of Prof. Martin Hughes. From September 2011, Ludmilla Kogan continued her studies at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Academy of Music and Theater in Leipzig in the class of Prof. Gerald Fauth and graduated in February 2014 with top marks and distinction and the two titles of Diploma Pianist and Diploma Music Teacher. This was immediately followed by a chamber music master’s degree in piano trio at the UdK Berlin with the Artemis Quartet. The final concert of this course in February 2017 was also rated top marks.

Ludmilla Kogan is the first prize winner of national and international competitions (e.g. international Brahms competition) in various categories (solo, duo, trio, accompaniment), and has received various special prizes. Major solo and chamber music performances, including with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Berlin Symphony Orchestra and the Frankfurt/Oder State Orchestra, have taken her to well-known stages such as the Berlin Philharmonic, the Berlin Konzerthaus, the Komische and Deutsche Oper Berlin and also the Chorin Monastery. Ludmilla Kogan can also be heard regularly at Glienicke Palace in Berlin with her duo partner Alexander Malter (piano). Concert tours have taken her to Poland, Japan, Spain, Italy, Finland and Switzerland.

Ludmilla Kogan is a former scholarship holder of the German Foundation for Music Life, the Karl and Else Wilke Foundation and the YEHUDI MENUHIN Live Music Now Berlin and Leipzig association. Since 2016, Ludmilla Kogan has been employed as a répétiteur for high strings, with a focus on viola, at the Franz Liszt University of Music in Weimar.