New details have been revealed regarding the death of the famous Russian violinist Dmitry Kogan. As a close friend of the musician said, during the year he struggled with a serious oncological disease.
“For a whole year he was stubbornly treated. He had melanoma - skin cancer. The last treatment took place in Israel. On August 17, he was transported from Israel to Moscow,” said Elena Tereshkova, daughter of Valentina Tereshkova, with whom Kogan was friends. According to her, foreign doctors recommended that the musician continue treatment at the Herzen Research Institute of Oncology, where the best specialists work.
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However, Kogan decided to go to a private clinic, where he died a week later, Komsomolskaya Pravda writes. "Doctors ... took responsibility and for some reason changed the appointments of Israeli doctors. In the situation in which Dima was, it was impossible to make sudden movements. But what can we say about this now. You will not return Dima ..." - bitterly Elena added.
Recall that the 38-year-old violinist Dmitry Kogan died of cancer on August 29. Farewell to the musician will take place on September 2 in the Chamber Hall of the Moscow International House of Music. The funeral will be held in the temple of the icon of the Mother of God "Joy of All Who Sorrow" on Bolshaya Ordynka. After that, Kogan will be buried at the Troekurovsky cemetery.
Dmitry Kogan was born into a well-known musical family. His grandfather was an outstanding violinist, his father was a conductor, and his mother was a pianist. He has been learning to play the violin since the age of six. Graduated from the Moscow State Conservatory. P.I. Tchaikovsky. Kogan first performed with a symphony orchestra when he was ten. At the age of 15, he appeared on the stage of the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory.
The sad news about the death of the incredibly talented and famous violinist Dmitry Kogan horrified the public. As you know, Dmitry for a long time struggled with cancer, which he could not overcome. The famous violinist died of cancer on August 29, 2017. Netizens are already expressing condolences for the loss.
Dmitry Kogan was the most famous Russian violinist of modern times. The musician not only led an active touring life and released many albums, but also did charity work. The renowned violinist was born into a musical family in 1978 in October. His grandfather was a very famous violinist and Honored Artist of the USSR - Leonid Kogan. Dmitry's father is the famous conductor Pavel Kogan. Mother is a pianist, and grandmother is a musician and violinist. So Dmitry picked up the violin from childhood and studied music.
Already at the age of 10 he performed with a symphony orchestra, and at the age of 15 Dmitry Kogan gave a concert at the Moscow Conservatory. Dmitry entered the Moscow School of Music, and then in 1996 he entered two universities at once - the Academy in Helsinki and the Moscow Conservatory. In 1997, Kogan went on tour in Europe. In 1998, Dmitry released a unique album in which he performed all 24 caprices of Paganini. Note that there are only a few such musicians in the world.
Dmitry Kogan violinist: biography, personal life, photo
He became famous after the charity concert "Times of Great Music", as well as after he recorded an album for children's schools. Dmitry Kogan toured Russia a lot in 2009, and in 2010 he was given the title of Honored Artist of Russia.
Dmitry Kogan was married to a socialite. His wife was the head of one of the glossy magazines. But the marriage was not successful. After three years of marriage, the couple divorced. The reason was that Dmitry's wife loved secular parties, which he simply could not stand. And now, cancer has claimed the life of a young musician who would be in his prime.
The musician was born on October 27, 1978 in Moscow, in a family of outstanding musicians. Grandfather, outstanding violinist of the 20th century Leonid Kogan, grandmother, well-known violinist and teacher Elizaveta Gilels, father, conductor Pavel Kogan. From the age of six he began to study the violin at the Central Music School at the Moscow Conservatory. He continued his education at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki.
At the age of 10, Dmitry first performed with a symphony orchestra, at fifteen - with an orchestra in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory.
In 1998 he became a soloist at the Moscow State Academic Art Theater. The violinist performs in all major cities of Russia, with the best orchestras in the country.
In 1997, Dmitry Kogan made his debut in the UK and the USA. Since then, Dmitry has been constantly touring in Europe, Asia, America, Australia, the Middle and Far East, the CIS and Baltic countries. Performs with solo concerts and leading symphony orchestras at the world's elite concert venues.
Dmitry has a large number of recordings on radio and television in many countries, also on CD and DVD. His repertoire includes almost all major concertos for violin and orchestra. A special place in the violinist's repertoire is occupied by a cycle of 24 caprices by N. Paganini, which for a long time were considered unplayable. There are only a few violinists in the world who perform the entire cycle of caprices.
In April 2004, Dmitry Kogan recorded a cycle of Paganini's caprices. In total, the violinist has recorded 6 CDs by the recording companies Delos, Conforza, DV Classics.
Dmitry Kogan is a regular participant in well-known festivals: Carentine Summer (Austria), as well as in the cities of Perth (Scotland), Nottingham (England), Kerkera (Greece), Zagreb (Croatia), Ogdon (USA). Dmitry represents Russia at the festival. P.I. Tchaikovsky, the Russian Winter festival, the Nikolai Petrov festival in the Kremlin, at the Sakharov festival, as well as in Athens, Monton, Munich, Istanbul, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Riga, etc.
Dmitry Kogan acted as the organizer and artistic director of the I International Festival. Leonid Kogan, held in December 2002. Dmitry Kogan is the author of the idea and artistic director of the annual festival "Days of High Music", which is held with great success in Vladivostok, and since 2005 on Sakhalin.
From 2004 to 2005, D. Kogan was the General Artistic Director of the Primorsky State Philharmonic. Since September 2005 - Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Sakhalin State Philharmonic.
In December 2007, he founded and headed the international Kogan Festival, which was held in Yekaterinburg with great resonance.
In April 2009, Dmitry Kogan was the first person in his profession to give a concert for polar explorers at the North Pole. He was also the first violinist to give charity concerts in Beslan and after the earthquake in Nevelsk. In September 2008, Dmitry Kogan was awarded the title of "Honorary Citizen of the city of Nevelsk" for his charitable activities. Thus, Dmitry became the youngest Russian who has ever been awarded such a title.
Dmitry Kogan pays great attention to the restoration of the status of classical music in the value system of modern society, conducts master classes in different countries.
In the 2008-2009 season as part of a large concert tour of the cities of Russia, the artist gave more than 30 concerts from Petrozavodsk and St. Petersburg to Magadan and Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. The tour of 42 cities, which will end in 2009, is designed to promote classical music and draw the attention of the state, society and business to the problem of supporting classical art as the basis for the formation of a morally healthy generation with a classical value system.
Dmitry Kogan devotes a lot of time to charitable activities and supporting actions in favor of children and youth. He is a member of the Council for the Quality of Education under the Presidium of the General Council of the United Russia party and an initiative group that issued an Open Letter to the President of the Russian Federation with a request to tighten penalties for crimes against children and adolescents. Together with Dmitry Kogan, the appeal was signed by well-known musicians, actors, journalists, television workers and just people who are not indifferent to this serious problem.
2006 - Laureate of the international award in the field of music DA VINCI.
The famous and adored Russian violinist Dmitry Kogan,
to whom the whole world applauded, died suddenly at the age of 38. The sad news was received on August 29, 2017 - in the evening. Dmitry Kogan - a famous violinist, is the grandson of an outstanding Soviet violinist and teacher, People's Artist of the USSR Leonid Kogan.
Many did not believe the first ill-fated news and immediately rushed to call the secretary of the famous violinist. His personal assistant Zhanna Prokofieva confirmed: "Yes, it's true," she said over the phone.
Then she added that Dmitry had been suffering from cancer for more than one year, but did not want to tell anyone about it, to bother.
It was this that caused a sharp deterioration in the health of the violinist.
Sudden death, nothing could help.
Dmitry Leonidovich Kogan was born on October 27, 1978 in Moscow.
The successor of the famous musical dynasty. His grandfather was the outstanding violinist Leonid Kogan, his grandmother was the famous violinist and teacher Elizaveta Gilels, his father was conductor Pavel Kogan, and his mother was pianist Lyubov Kazinskaya, who graduated from the Academy of Music. Gnesins.
From the age of six, Dmitry began to study the violin at the Central Music School at the Moscow State Conservatory. P. I. Tchaikovsky. At the age of ten, he first performed with a symphony orchestra, at fifteen - with an orchestra in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory. Even then, they bowed before his talent, promising the boy a great future.
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Kogan received his higher education at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory and the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. He played the violin brilliantly!
He was applauded by the audience in Europe and Asia, America and Australia.
Dmitry Kogan - a violinist who managed to perform the Nicolo Paganini cycle,
which consists of twenty-four caprices. For a long time it was believed that these works of the great genius are almost impossible to repeat. But Dmitry proved otherwise. Today, there are only a few violinists in the world who can perform a full cycle of caprices.
In 2003 Dmitry presented the famous Stradivarius violin "Empress of Russia" for the first time in Russia. The violin belonged to Catherine II. In 2010, Dmitry Kogan was awarded the honorary title of Honored Artist of the Russian Federation.
Dmitry Kogan organized a number of projects. Since December 2002, under his leadership, the International Festival named after his famous grandfather has been held. The violinist also led several other festivals. Since 2010, Dmitry has been an honorary professor at the Greek Athens Conservatory and chairman of the board of trustees at the Ural College of Music. In 2011, the musician was approved for the position of artistic director of the Samara Philharmonic.
The violinist was not married for such a long time - only three years. The life partner of Dmitry Kogan is also a very remarkable person. She was a socialite and editor-in-chief of the prestigious glossy magazine Pride. From the life of secular lions ”Ksenia Chilingarova, whose father is the famous polar explorer Artur Chilingarov. Young people got married in 2009.
Before the wedding, the couple simply lived together for some time, without signing, as is now customary for many couples. At first, happiness overwhelmed the young spouses, but a little later, the dissimilarity of characters began to appear. Due to her professional activities, Ksenia Chilingarova needs to attend secular parties, which her husband organically did not accept.
Nevertheless, this did not cause irreconcilable conflicts, the spouses parted peacefully and until the last they were very close people for each other, ready to help at any time if necessary. So, for Dmitry Kogan, only the violin replaced his beloved wife, friends, and relatives, which he himself often talks about in his interviews.
Dmitry Kogan attached great importance to charity. He supported various actions in favor of talented youth. Dmitry Pavlovich was a member of the Council for the Quality of Education under the United Russia party. In 2011, Dmitry Kogan, together with philanthropist Valery Savelyev, organized a foundation whose goal is to support interesting cultural projects.
A few years ago in Moscow, in the Hall of Columns of the House of the Unions
concert-presentation of the Fund for Support of Unique Cultural
projects to them. Kogan - “Five great violins in one concerto: Amati,
Stradivari, Guarneri, Guadanini, Vuillaume. Rare instruments
presented by the Honored Artist of Russia Dmitry Kogan.
The Volga Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra took part in the concert.
Chamber Orchestra of the Samara State Philharmonic "Volga Philharmonic"
was formed in 2011 on the initiative of Dmitry Kogan.
The exquisitely subtle performance of A. Piazzolla's cycle "The Four Seasons in Buenos Aires", the impeccable ensemble and the mutual understanding of the soloist and the orchestra impressed the sophisticated Moscow audience so much that the orchestra did not let go of the stage for a long time.
The name of the violinist Dmitry Kogan is on a par with the greatest musicians of our time. Thanks to his hard work and determination, more and more young people come to understand classical music, and connoisseurs discover more and more young talents, since one of the activities of this musician is charity.
Moreover, this charity was not an ostentatious action, after which the press praises the name of the benefactor for a long time, but a sincere participation in the fate of young talents. Most often, these are free concerts, donated CDs with music, instruments or accessories for them, as well as sums of money that are not burdensome for the maestro himself.
The date and place of the funeral are already known. According to some sources, farewell to Dmitry Kagon will be held in the Hall of Columns of the House of Unions - September 2, beginning at 11-00. As for the place of Dmitry's burial, it has not yet been determined exactly. The violinist's relatives want to bury him at the Novodevichy Cemetery if they are given permission. If it does not work out at Novodevichy, then the musician will be buried at the Troekursky cemetery.
Dmitry Kogan was born on October 27, 1978 in Moscow. The successor of the famous musical dynasty. The grandson of the outstanding violinist Leonid Kogan, the famous violinist and teacher Elizaveta Hillel. Father - conductor Pavel Kogan, mother - pianist Lyubov Kazinskaya, who graduated from the Gnessin Academy of Music.
From the age of six, Dmitry began to study the violin at the Central Music School at the Moscow State Conservatory named after P.I. Tchaikovsky. At the age of ten, he performed for the first time with a symphony orchestra, at the age of fifteen with an orchestra in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory.
Dmitry Kogan from 1996 to 1999 was a student of the class of I.S. Bezrodny at the Moscow Conservatory and the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland, where he studied with Thomas Haapanen.
In 1997, the musician made his debut in the UK and the USA. A special place in the repertoire was occupied by a cycle of 24 caprices by N. Paganini. In total, the violinist has recorded ten CDs by the record companies Delos, Conforza, DV Classics and others. His repertoire includes almost all major concertos for violin and orchestra.
Dmitry was the organizer and artistic director of the First Leonid Kogan International Festival, which took place in December 2002.
From 2004 to 2005 he was the General Artistic Director of the Primorsky State Philharmonic. Since September 2005, he has headed the Board of Trustees of the Sakhalin Philharmonic. Two years later, he founded and headed the International "Kogan Festival" in the city of Yekaterinburg. Subsequently, for two years, he worked as the artistic director of the Samara State Philharmonic.
On April 19, 2009, on Easter Day, Dmitry Kogan was the first person in his profession to give a concert for polar explorers at the North Pole. Two years later, thanks to the efforts of the violinist and head of the AVS-group holding, philanthropist Valery Savelyev, the Kogan Foundation for Support of Unique Cultural Projects was created. The public stage of the Foundation's first project was Kogan's concert in the Hall of Columns on May 26, 2011. On the Russian stage, five great violins, Stradivari, Guarneri, Amati, Guadanini and Vuillaume, revealed the richness and depth of their sound in Dmitry's hands.
The legendary Robrecht violin, created in 1728 by the Cremonese master Bartolomeo Giuseppe Antonio Guarneri, was acquired by the Foundation for the Support of Unique Cultural Projects and on September 1, 2011 handed over to Kogan in Milan.
From 2011 to 2014, he was a cultural adviser to the Governor of the Chelyabinsk region. In April 2012, the musician, together with Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, headed the Board of Trustees of the Ural State Conservatory named after M.P. Mussorgsky. In March of the same year, he became a confidant of the President of the Russian Federation.
In April 2013, he headed the Musical Kremlin International Festival, founded by the great Russian pianist Nikolai Petrov. At the same time, in the Hall of Columns of the House of the Unions, in the city of Moscow, the musician recorded a charity album "The Time of High Music". The disc, which was released with a circulation of more than 30,000 copies, was donated to music schools, children's art schools, colleges and higher educational institutions in all 83 constituent entities of the Russian Federation.
The violinist's charity tour, "Time of High Music", in 83 regions of the Russian Federation began in the city of Tver on June 15, 2013. In February of the following year, Dmitry was appointed artistic director of the Moscow Camerata orchestra. In September 2014, the First Arctic Festival of Classical Music was held in the Nenets Autonomous Okrug under the artistic direction of the maestro.
In September 2014, he was appointed cultural adviser to the Governor of the Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Arkhangelsk Region. For the next two years, he acted as artistic director of the Days of High Music in the Arctic festival, held in the city of Naryan-Mar.
The cultural project "Five Great Violins in One Concert" was successfully presented by the violinist at the best concert venues in Russia and abroad. In January 2013, the concert "Five Great Violins" was presented at the World Economic Forum in Davos in the presence of the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, representatives of the world political and business elite.
In 2015, the musician presented a new unique project, including the performance of Vivaldi and Astor Piazzolla's The Four Seasons with a modern multimedia video projection. Dmitry Kogan paid great attention to the restoration of the status of classical music in the value system of modern society, held master classes in different countries, devoted a lot of time to charitable activities and supporting actions in favor of children.
Kogan participated in prestigious world-scale festivals: "Carinthian Summer"; music festival in Menton, France; jazz festival in Montreux, Switzerland; music festival in Perth, Scotland and many others. The author of the idea and artistic director of the annual Festival "Days of High Music", which was held first in the city of Vladivostok, and then on Sakhalin.
Dmitry Pavlovich Kogan died on August 29, 2017 in the city of Moscow, after a long oncological disease.
Kogan was awarded the Honorary title "Honored Artist of the Russian Federation". For charitable activities, Dmitry Kogan was awarded the title of "Honorary Citizen of the city of Nevelsk." Honorary Professor of the Athens Conservatory. He was awarded the medal "For Faith in Good", the medal of the Yekaterinburg Metropolitanate of the Russian Orthodox Church, a letter of thanks from the President of the Russian Federation.
