STANISLAV IOUDENITCH, PIANO
Featuring his Family and the Accorda Quartet as guest artists

TUESDAY
FEBRUARY 3, 2004
8:00 pm
Belhaven College Center for the Arts
835 Riverside Drive
Jackson, Mississippi

Stanislav Ioudenitch:

*Gold Medal Winner of the 2001 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition

*Carnegie Hall Debut ~ April, 2003

*Gold Medal Winner of the Wideman Piano Competition, 1998


"The world will continue to watch Ioudenitch with tremendous interest. He
possesses much of the disciplined extravagance and genuine artistic maturity that traditionally sets great artists apart from simply brilliant ones."
--Paul Horsley, Kansas City Star

This extraordinarily brilliant pianist makes a return visit to Jackson, having given the inaugural recital to launch the Belhaven College Center for the Arts in Oct., 2002. Stanislav's return visit will feature his highly gifted family. His mother, traveling from her native Uzbekistan, the virtuoso pianist Marina,
Stanislav's seven-year-old pianist daughter Maria will play as well as her mother, Stanislav's wife, the superb pianist, Tatiana.

"A musician of aristocratic elegance and imagination, he makes everything fresh,
finding revelatory facets and emotional dimensions without ever imposing anything
foreign."
--Scott Cantrell, Dallas Morning News

"Everything is marked by a laser like clarity and cleanness. His command of
octaves, passagework, trills, repeated notes-the whole arsenal of virtuoso fireworks-
is complete. And this technical accomplishment is entirely at the service of a
probing musical intellect."
--Ellen Pfeifer, The Boston Globe

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"A musician of aristocratic elegance and imagination, he makes everything fresh, finding revelatory facets and emotional dimensions without ever imposing anything foreign."
--Scott Cantrell, Dallas Morning News

"Everything is marked by a laser like clarity and cleanness. His command of
octaves, passagework, trills, repeated notes-the whole arsenal of virtuoso fireworks-is complete. And this technical accomplishment is entirely at the service of a probing musical intellect."
--Ellen Pfeifer, The Boston Globe

Mr. Ioudenitch's previous concert in Jackson, October, 2002 (also presented by the Thalia Mara Foundation) was also marked by exceptional acclaim…excerpts below of a review posted in the Northside Sun by Edward Dacus, professor of music at Mississippi College.

Adjectives inadequate to best describe Ioudenitch's concert!

"Words that come to mind after hearing Mr. Ioudenitch perform include spectacular, phenomenal, and unbelievable, but even these adjectives are inadequate to describe the truly beautiful and moving music-making which the audience was privileged to
hear. One is often struck by technical prowess at the piano, but Ioudenitch's
phenomenal technique served to give the listener a truly aesthetic experience withhis demonstration of a vast range of emotion and tonal color at the piano."

"…Following the Mozart were Three movements From Petrouchka reworked for piano by the composer Igor Stravinsky. The middle of three monumental balletscores which exploit tonal colors and possibilities from the orchestra, the piano score of Petrouchka is as demanding a work for piano as any. Mr. Ioudenitch's presentation of the work was truly that of a conductor conducting an
orchestra. Ioudenitch's achievement in his exploitation of the range of tonal colors in this performance
was nothing short of astounding, and again, unbelievable. At risk of sounding trite, it seemed that Ioudenitch has actually mastered each orchestral instrument in the Stravinsky score so that he could so masterfully perform these pieces at the piano, evoking the sounds of the orchestra in the ballet score which is to many a pinnacle of orchestration. Ioudenitch's various degrees of depression of the left pedal brought a vast array of tonal possibilities from the piano, and one can only imagine what could have been achieved by finely voiced hammers. The Stravinsky was answered by an immediate and well-deserved standing ovation.

"…It is gratifying to see that the solo piano recital is alive and well in Jackson. Towitness firsthand an artist of the caliber of Stanislav Ioudenitch is gratifying as well as humbling. In a day when far too much recognition is often given to mediocre (at best) entertainment, it is refreshing to observe an audience experiencing uncommon
talent whose potential has been truly realized.
--Edward Dacus, professor of music at Mississippi College