Irina Grigoryeva is an accordionist. She is a teacher of the Centre of Creative Development and Liberal Arts Education ''On Vasilyevsky Island'', Saint-Petersburg. She graduated with honours from Children’s Musical School No. 7 of the City of Omsk (teachers N. A. Velizhanina and O. A. Chechulina), Experimental Children’s Musical School of the City of Omsk (teacher L. I. Beletskaya), Omsk Musical School named after V. Ya. Shebalin (teacher L. I. Beletskaya), SPbSC named after N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov (teacher V. Ye. Orlov), then she did postgraduate studies at SPbSC named after N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov (teacher O. M. Sharov).
During the years of her training she became a laureate of different competitions of accordionists: citywide, district, regional, all-Russia and international. Owing to her high achievements in the field of musical art, Irina for several years was the holder of a special scholarship, an award of a scholarship of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation and a scholarship of the Government of Saint-Petersburg. Now, as a concert performer, Irina represents her creative work in many concert halls of Russia and Europe, she gives performances on tours in Latvia, Finland, Lithuania, China, Germany.
In 2009 her audio disc ''Instants'' was issued.
''In training a musician, in formation of his musical taste, in development of the area of his musical thought the decisive role is played by the repertoire on which he works in the process of learning. The wider the sphere of musical images is, the more varicoloured the stylistic peculiarities and the music language of the performed pieces are, the deeper they have been studied, the more conditions for many-sided development of the musician to-be have been created. Therefore one of the main tasks of the musical teacher is a well-thought-out and purposeful construction of the repertoire for each student.''
Irina Grigoryeva

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