Stanislav Ioudenitch
{{short description|Uzbekistani-born American pianist (born 1971)}}
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Stanislav Ioudenitch (born December 5, 1971) is an Uzbekistani-born American pianist, known for winning the Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass Gold Medal at the Eleventh Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 2001, jointly with Olga Kern, as well as the Steven De Groote Memorial Award for Best Performance of Chamber Music.[https://web.archive.org/web/20061001040631/http://www.cliburn.org/index.php?page=eleventh_2001 Eleventh Van Cliburn International Piano Competition (2001) - competition archives] 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 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 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 Institute of Music with Sergei Babayan, and the UMKC Conservatory of Music with Robert Weirich.{{Cite web|url=https://issuu.com/cliburn/docs/11th__2001__program_book/88|title=Eleventh Van Cliburn International Piano Competition Program Book (2001)|website=Issuu|language=en|access-date=2020-04-06}}{{Cite web|url=https://issuu.com/cliburn/docs/10th__1997__program_book/88|title=Tenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition Program Book (1997)|website=Issuu|language=en|access-date=2020-04-06}}
Personal life
With his wife, Tatiana (also a pianist), Ioudenitch has a daughter, the violinist Maria Ioudenitch.[https://mariaioudenitch.com/about Maria Ioudenitch: about] mariaioudenitch.com, accessed 2 September 2022
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 classes at the International Piano Academy at Lake Como, where he serves as vice president.{{Cite web|url=http://www.comopianoacademy.org/administration/|title=Administration: International Piano Academy Lake Como|website=www.comopianoacademy.org|language=en-US|access-date=2017-09-16}} He is currently associate professor of music/piano at Park University and associate professor at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music.{{Cite news|url=https://www.oberlin.edu/news/stanislav-ioudenitch-joins-oberlin-conservatory-piano-faculty|title=Stanislav Ioudenitch Joins Oberlin Conservatory Piano Faculty {{!}} Oberlin College and Conservatory|last=Burnett|first=Erich|date=2017-02-10|work=Oberlin College and Conservatory|access-date=2017-09-16|language=en}}
Awards
- Third Place, Busoni International Piano Competition (1991)[http://www.concorsobusoni.it/en-50-1054.aspx?CMS_IDN=1682 Busoni International Piano Competition: List of winner 1991-2000]{{dead link|date=May 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
- Eleventh Van Cliburn International Piano Competition (2001)
- Co-winner: Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass Gold Medal
- Steven De Groote Memorial Award for Best Performance of Chamber Music
Discography
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| 1. | Stanislav Ioudenitch: Gold Medalist, Eleventh Van Cliburn International Piano Competition | Harmonia Mundi | 9 October 2001 | HMU 907290 |
External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20081012081700/http://www.park.edu/icm/ycm/faculty.shtml Park University: International Center for Music faculty]
- [http://www.comopianoacademy.com/courses/Stanislav%20Iouden International Piano Academy Lake Como faculty: Stanislav Ioudenitch]
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Category:Uzbekistani classical pianists
Category:Musicians from Tashkent
Category:Reina Sofía School of Music alumni
Category:Prize-winners of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition