What is Dmitri Kogan?
[[File:Koshin3.jpg|thumb|Dmitri Kogan]] '''Dmitri Pavlovich Kogan''' ({{lang-ru|link=no|Дмитрий Павлович Коган}}, October 27, 1978 &ndash; August 29, 2017) was a [[Russia]]n violinist and an [[Honoured Artist of the Russian Federation]]. He was born in [[Moscow]]. He began playing the [[violin]] at the age of 6 in the Central Music School of [[Moscow Conservatory|Moscow State P.I. Tchaikovsky Conservatory]]. Kogan has been a participant of world festivals of high prestige such as the [[Corinthian Summer Festival]] ([[Austria]]), [[Menton Music Festival]] ([[France]]), [[Montreux Jazz Festival]] ([[Switzerland]]), [[Perth Festival]] ([[Scotland]]), and music festivals in [[Athens]], [[Vilnius]], Shanghai, [[Ogden]] and [[Helsinki]]. He has also participated in the Chereshnevy Les Open-Art Festival, Russian Winter (Russkaya Zima) Festival, Music Kremlin Festival, Andrey Sakharov International Art Festival and many others. In September 2014 the maestro was an Artistic Director of the First Arctic [[Classical music|Classical Music]] Fest in the [[Nenets Autonomous Okrug]]. In September 2014 he was appointed as the Counsellor for Cultural Affairs to the Governor of the Nenets Autonomous Okrug. Kogan died in Moscow on August 29, 2017 of [[lymphoma]] at the age of 38.<ref>[https://www.1obl.ru/news/o-lyudyakh/byvshiy-sovetnik-po-kulture-skonchalsya/ Бывший советник по культуре экс-губернатора Челябинской области скончался на 39-м году жизни] {{in lang|ru}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== * [http://dmitrikogan.ru/en/biografiya.html BIOGRAPHY DMITRI KOGAN] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160301123430/http://dmitrikogan.ru/en/biografiya.html |date=2016-03-01 }} * [http://www.operaandballet.com/?person=317&page=catalog Dmitriy Kogan (Violin soloist)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170624143031/http://www.operaandballet.com/?person=317&page=catalog |date=2017-06-24 }} * [http://kremlinpalace.org/en/events/four-seasons-dmitri-kogan-russian-philharmonic The Four Seasons. D