The Austrian organist Valentin Fheodoroff was born in 1993 and began his musical career as a pianist. Since 2003, study with Danja Lukan (Vienna) has been at the centre of his musical training. Up to the present day, she constantly promotes his character and the expressiveness of his piano and organ performance, as well as his artistic development, including intense training as a vocal performer.
From 2005 to 2008, he also studied piano with Imola Joo (mdw Viena), from 2008 to 2010 with Lev Natochenny (hfmdk Frankfurt), and from 2011 to 2015 with Stefano Fiuzzi and Jin Ju (Accademia pianistica, Imola / Florence).
In 2011, his newfound love for the organ made him simultaneously begin his organ training with Pier Damiano Peretti (Vienna), while continuing his studies with Danja Lukan on both instruments. In 2013, Valentin Fheodoroff was awarded 2nd prize and the special prize (best Austrian participant) in the 14th International Beethoven Piano Competition in Vienna.
His performances as a pianist at concerts, either alone, with an orchestra or as a chamber musician have taken him to several European countries, including among others, Liszt House Raiding, ORF Radiokulturhaus, Bösendorfer House Vienna, Alte Oper Frankfurt, the Frankfurt University of Music and Wiener Musikverein, along with very favourable reviews from FAZ and klassik.com.
Alongside the harpist Julia Christine Lukan, he formed an exceptional and award-winning harp and organ duo, a combination that continues to create unique concerts and extraordinary programmes. In the 2015/16 season they made their performing debut in the organ series at Wiener Konzerthaus (Rieger Organ from 1913), which also presented Valentin Fheodoroff´s own compositions. A year later, Valentin completed his Master´s degree in organ with Wolfgang Zerer in Hamburg. Other studies with Michel Bouvard (Toulouse) and Daniel Roth (Paris) completed his career.
A talented performer and trained in many different music disciplines: piano, chamber music, improvisation, composition, vocal accompaniment, organ, since 2016 the approach of Valentin has moved almost completely from piano to playing and composing for the organ.
In recent years, his engagements have included concerts in France, Romania, Spain and Latvia. In 2020, his liturgical suite for organ received second place in the composition competition for the new Rieger (V / 130) organ at St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna.
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