Stanislav Ioudenitch (born December 5, 1971) is an
Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan (, ; uz, Ozbekiston, italic=yes / , ; russian: Узбекистан), officially the Republic of Uzbekistan ( uz, Ozbekiston Respublikasi, italic=yes / ; russian: Республика Узбекистан), is a doubly landlocked co ...
i-born American pianist, known for winning the Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass Gold Medal at the Eleventh
Van Cliburn International Piano Competition
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in 2001, jointly with
Olga Kern, as well as the Steven De Groote Memorial Award for Best Performance of Chamber Music.
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/ref> He has also won top prizes at the Busoni, Kapell, and Maria Callas Competitions, as well as at the 1998 Palm Beach Invitational and the 2000 New Orleans International. His win at the Van Cliburn Competition led to a recital debut at the Aspen Music Festival
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and a European tour, highlighted by appearances at summer festivals in France, Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom.
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
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in Madrid
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with Dmitri Bashkirov
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and Galina Eguiazarova
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, the International Piano Foundation in Cadenabbia
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Cadenabbia ...
(present day International Piano Academy Lake Como) with Karl Ulrich Schnabel
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, William Grant Naboré
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, Murray Perahia
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, Leon Fleisher
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, Fou Ts'ong
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and Rosalyn Tureck
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, the Cleveland Institute of Music
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with Sergei Babayan
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, and the UMKC Conservatory of Music with Robert Weirich.
Personal life
With his wife, Tatiana (also a pianist), Ioudenitch has a daughter, the violinist Maria Ioudenitch.
Career
Ioudenitch has performed throughout Europe, the United States, and Asia, and collaborated with a wide range of international conductors including James Conlon
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, Valery Gergiev
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, Mikhail Pletnev
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Life and career
Pletnev was born into a musical fa ...
, Asher Fisch
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, Vladimir Spivakov
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, Günther Herbig
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, Pavel Kogan Pavel Kogan is the name of:
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, James DePreist
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, Michael Stern Michael Stern may refer to:
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, Stefan Sanderling
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, Carl St. Clair and Justus Franz, and with such orchestras as the National Symphony
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in Washington DC, the Munich Philharmonic
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, Mariinsky Orchestra
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, the Rochester Philharmonic
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History
George Eastman, founder of Eastman Kodak Compa ...
, the National Philharmonic of Russia, the Fort Worth Symphony
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and the Kansas City Symphony
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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
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In the fall of 2017, Park had an enrollment of 11,457 students.
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in Kansas City, Missouri.
Ioudenitch is the youngest pianist ever invited to give master classes at the International Piano Academy at Lake Como, where he serves as vice president. He is currently associate professor of music/piano at Park University
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In the fall of 2017, Park had an enrollment of 11,457 students.
History
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and associate professor at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music
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.
Awards
* Third Place, Busoni International Piano Competition (1991)Busoni International Piano Competition: List of winner 1991-2000
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* Eleventh Van Cliburn International Piano Competition
The Van Cliburn International Piano Competition (The Cliburn) is an American piano competition by The Cliburn, first held in 1962 in Fort Worth, Texas and hosted by the Van Cliburn Foundation. Initially held at Texas Christian University, the co ...
(2001)
** Co-winner: Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass 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
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Uzbekistani classical pianists
1971 births
Living people
Musicians from Tashkent
Reina Sofía School of Music alumni
Prize-winners of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition
21st-century classical pianists
Park University faculty