Uzbekistani-born American pianist (born 1971)Musical artist

Stanislav Ioudenitch (born December 5, 1971) is an Uzbekistani-born American pianist, known for winning the Nancy Lee and Perry R. B* Gold Medal at the Eleventh Van Cliburn International Piano Compe*ion in 2001, jointly with Olga Kern, as well as the Steven De Groote Memorial Award for Best Performance of Chamber Music. He has also won top prizes at the Busoni, Kapell, and Maria Callas Compe*ions, as well as at the 1998 Palm Beach Invitational and the 2000 New Orleans International. His win at the Van Cliburn Compe*ion led to a recital debut at the Aspen Music Festival and a European tour, highlighted by appearances at summer festivals in France, Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom.

Contents

• 1 Early life and education
• 2 Career
• 3 Awards
• 4 Discography
• 5 External links
• 6 References

Early life and education

Born to a family a musicians in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Ioudenitch started playing the piano at seven. He studied at the Uspensky School of Music in Tashkent with Natalia Vasinkina, the Reina Sofía School of Music in Madrid with Dmitri Bashkirov and Galina Eguiazarova, the International Piano Foundation in Cadenabbia (present day International Piano Academy Lake Como) with Karl Ulrich Schnabel, William Grant Naboré, Murray Perahia, Leon Fleisher, Fou Ts'ong and Rosalyn Tureck, the Cleveland Ins*ute of Music with Sergei Babayan, and the UMKC Conservatory of Music with Robert Weirich.

Career

Ioudenitch has performed throughout Europe, the United States, and Asia, and collaborated with a wide range of international conductors including James Conlon, Valery Gergiev, Mikhail Pletnev, Asher Fisch, Vladimir Spivakov, Günther Herbig, Pavel Kogan, James DePreist, Michael Stern, Stefan Sanderling, Carl St. Clair and Justus Franz, and with such orchestras as the National Symphony in Washington DC, the Munich Philharmonic, Mariinsky Orchestra, the Rochester Philharmonic, the National Philharmonic of Russia, the Fort Worth Symphony and the Kansas City Symphony among others. He has also performed with the Takács, Prazák and Borromeo String Quartets and is a founding member of the Park Piano Trio at Park University in Kansas City, Missouri.

Ioudenitch is the youngest pianist ever invited to give master cl*es at the International Piano Academy at Lake Como, where he serves as vice president. He is currently *ociate professor of music/piano at Park University and *ociate professor at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music.

Awards

• Third Place, Busoni International Piano Compe*ion (1991)
• Eleventh Van Cliburn International Piano Compe*ion (2001)
  • Co-winner: Nancy Lee and Perry R. B* Gold Medal
  • Steven De Groote Memorial Award for Best Performance of Chamber Music

Discography

External links

• Park University: International Center for Music faculty
• International Piano Academy Lake Como faculty: Stanislav Ioudenitch

References