Stanislav Ioudenitch is a pianist from the former Soviet Republic of Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan , officially the Republic of Uzbekistan is a doubly landlocked country in Central Asia and one of the six independent Turkic states. It shares borders with Kazakhstan to the west and to the north, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to the east, and Afghanistan and Turkmenistan to the south....

. He was a Gold Medalist at the Eleventh Van Cliburn International Piano Competition

Van Cliburn International Piano Competition

The Van Cliburn International Piano Competition was first held in 1962 in Fort Worth, Texas and is hosted by Van Cliburn Foundation. It was created by Fort Worth area teachers in honor of Van Cliburn, who had won the first International Tchaikovsky Competition four years prior with Tchaikovsky's...

 in 2001, tying for first place with Olga Kern

Olga Kern

Olga Kern is a Russian classical pianist. Born as Olga Pushechnikova to a family of musicians with ties to Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff, she later adopted her mother's maiden name professionally...

. 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

Ioudenitch was born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, and is a former student of Dmitri Bashkirov at the Escuela Superior de Musica Reina Sofia

Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía

The Queen Sofía College of Music is a private music college founded in Madrid, Spain, in 1991 by Paloma O'Shea...

 in Madrid. He attended the International Piano Foundation "Theo Lieven" in Cadenabbia, Italy, where he worked with Leon Fleisher

Leon Fleisher

Leon Fleisher is an American pianist and conductor.-Early life and studies:Fleisher was born in San Francisco, where he started studying the piano at age four...

, William Grant Naboré, Murray Perahia

Murray Perahia

Murray Perahia KBE is an American concert pianist and conductor.-Early life:Murray Perahia was born in the Bronx borough of New York City to a family of Sephardi Jewish origin. According to the biography on his Mozart piano sonatas CD, his first language was Judaeo-Spanish or, Ladino. The family...

, Karl Ulrich Schnabel

Karl Ulrich Schnabel

Karl Ulrich Schnabel was an Austrian pianist, and the son of pianist Artur Schnabel and operatic contralto and lieder singer Therese Behr.-Biography:...

, Fou Ts'ong

Fou Ts'ong

Fou Ts'ong is a Chinese pianist.Born in Shanghai to a family of intellectuals , Fou first studied piano with Mario Paci, the Italian founder of the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra...

, and Rosalyn Tureck

Rosalyn Tureck

Rosalyn Tureck was an American pianist and harpsichordist who was particularly associated with the music of Johann Sebastian Bach...

.

Career

He has spent the last three years on a worldwide concert tour, including continuing performances in association with the Cliburn Foundation. Ioudenitch has performed throughout Europe, the United States, Turkey, South Africa, and China, and he has appeared with the Munich Philharmonic, the Philharmonie der Nationen, the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D.C., the Kansas City Symphony, Long Island Philharmonic, Pacific Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic, Santo Domingo Symphony Orchestras, and the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall

Carnegie Hall

Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east stretch of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south of Central Park....

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Ioudenitch has grown into one of the music world’s most promising young artists, exhibiting a strong individuality and musical conviction that sets him apart from other artists of his generation. He is the youngest pianist ever invited to give master classes at the International Piano Academy at Lake Como

International Piano Academy Lake Como

The International Piano Academy Lake Como is a music school. Seven pianists, chosen annually from a worldwide field of 400 applicants including many international prizewinners, have the opportunity of studying with a faculty whose core membership past and present includes such stellar artists as...

. He is currently Associate Professor of Music and the Artistic Director of the Youth Conservatory of Music at the International Center for Music at Park University

Park University

Park University is an independent, private institution of higher education based in Parkville, Missouri. Established in 1875 as a small church-related college, it has now expanded into an electronic learning institution and provider of education courses for the U.S...

 in Missouri, USA.

Awards

• Third Place, Busoni International Piano Competition (1991)

• Eleventh Van Cliburn International Piano Competition
  Van Cliburn International Piano Competition
  The Van Cliburn International Piano Competition was first held in 1962 in Fort Worth, Texas and is hosted by Van Cliburn Foundation. It was created by Fort Worth area teachers in honor of Van Cliburn, who had won the first International Tchaikovsky Competition four years prior with Tchaikovsky's...
  
  (2001)
  • Co-winner: Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass Gold Medal
  • Steven De Groote Memorial Award for Best Performance of Chamber Music

Discography

compact discs

	title	label	date	catalog number	notes
1.	Stanislav Ioudenitch: Gold Medalist, Eleventh Van Cliburn International Piano Competition	Harmonia Mundi	9 October 2001	HMU 907290

External links

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