Pianist and composer Valentin Mihai Bogdan is Professor of Music at Mississippi University for Women. He has won awards at national and international competitions, including the Ellis Two Piano Competition, Varna International Piano Competition, and the Wayne State Concerto Competition.  Throughout his career he has performed in Europe, Asia, and North America in Romania, Russia, France, England, Netherlands, Italy, Poland, Bulgaria, Jordan, Canada, and the US (including concerts at the Russian Union of Composers (Moscow, Russia)), Prokofiev Museum (Moscow, Russia, at Spectrum Festival  (Kazan, Russia),  Aula Sergiu T. Chiriacescu (Transilvania University, Romania), Sala Patria (Brasov, Romania) and Assisi Performing Arts in Italy.  He has performed on stages and festivals throughout the world, including Oregon Bach Festival, Festival Miami, American-Romanian Festival, National Association of Composers USA Festival, and many more.  He was a soloist with the Starkville Symphony Orchestra, Assisi Performing Arts Orchestra, Wayne State Symphony Orchestra, and Arizona Western College Concert Band.   He was the winner of an Artist Fellowship from the Mississippi Arts Commission (2018).   Valentin was named the 2010 Florida State Music Teachers Association commissioned composer of the year, and the 2015 Mississippi Music Teachers Association commissioned composer.  He is a graduate of Wayne State University, Michigan State University and University of Miami, with degrees in piano and music composition.