With rich detail of color and gesture and an enormous sophistication of line and form, *Stanislav Ioudenitch* won the Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass Gold Medal at the Eleventh Van Clibum International Piano Competition in June 2001. He was also the recipient of a Steven De Groote Memorial Award for the Best Performance of Chamber Music for his semifinal round collaboration with the renowned Takacs Quartet. In addition to these significant prizes, he was awarded two years of international concert engagements and career management, as well as a compact disc recording of his award-winning Clibum Competition recital performances for the _Harmonia Mundi_ label.
Bom in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Mr. Ioudenitch has grown into one of the music world’s most promising young artists, already exhibiting a strong individuality and musical conviction that sets him apart from other artists of his generation. He has netted top prizes at the Busoni, Kapell, and Maria Callas Competitions and took first prize at both the 1998 Palm Beach Invitational and the 2000 New Orleans International Piano Competitions. He has performed in Germany, England, Finland, Greece, Italy, Spain, and the United States, as well as throughout the former Soviet Republics, including appearances with the Munich Philharmonic; the Philharmonic der Nationen; and the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D.C.
His first performances as a Clibum gold medalist included at the Aspen Music Festival, a European tour including summer festivals in France, Germany, Italy, and the UK. During the 2001-2 concert season, he performed orchestral engagements with the Kansas City Symphony, Long Island Philharmonic, Pacific Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic, and Santo Domingo Symphony Orchestras and appeared in recital in Charlotte; Fort Worth; New Orleans; Philadelphia; San Antonio; Seattle; Stanford; Washington, D.C.; and West Palm Beach, among other U.S. cities.
Mr. Ioudenitch will perform the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Syracuse Symphony as part of an extensive northeast tour culminating with a Carnegie Hall concert on April 5,2003. Other engagements this season include recitals in Beijing, Boston, Kansas City, London, Milan, Milwaukee, Paris, San Juan, Utrecht, and Zurich, as well as orchestral engagements with the California, El Paso, Pacific, Shreveport, and Wichita Symphony Orchestras. He will appear in recital at Carnegie Hall’s eagerly anticipated new Zankel Hall in the spring of 2004.
Featured in _Playing on the Edge_, the Peabody award-winning documentary on the Eleventh Van Clibum International Piano Competition which premiered on PBS stations across the United States in the fall of 2001, he will also appear in the forthcoming PBS “Concerto” series which showcases his final round Clibum Competition performances. A former student of Dmitri Bashkirov, with whom he studied at the Escuela Superior de Musica Reina Sofia in Madrid, he also attended the prestigious International Piano Foundation Theo Lieven in Cadenabbia, Italy for two years, working with Leon Fleisher, William Grant Nabore, Murray Perahia, Karl Ulrich Schnabel, Fou Ts’ong, and Rosalyn Tureck. He has also studied with Sergei Babayan at the Cleveland Institute of Music and Robert Weirich at the University of Missouri in Kansas City, where he is now on faculty as artist-in-residence. Beginning November 2002, Mr. Ioudenitch will be the youngest teacher ever invited to give master classes at the International Piano Foundation and Academy Theo Lieven.
