Prelude to Spring • Sunday, February 26, 2012 2:00 pm

Allen High School Performing Arts Center

Eugene Pridonoff has maintained an international performing career for over four decades since winning prizes in the Leventritt, Montreal, Brazil, and Tschaikowsky competitions.  In the ensuing decades he also established himself as a world-renowned pedagogue and is Professor of Piano and Artist-in-Residence at the University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music.  He graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music where he studied with Rudolf Serkin and Mieczyslaw Horszowski.

He has performed with orchestras throughout the world, including the New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, National Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic, Central Opera Orchestra of Beijing, and the San Salvador Symphony Orchestra, under such conductors as Seiji Ozawa, Izler Solomon, Andre Kostelanetz, Michael Gielen, Frederic Prausnitz, Nicholas Harsanyi, Howard Mitchell, John Barnett, Gerhard Samuel, William Smith and Lawrence Leighton Smith. He has also given performed in North, Central, and South America, Moscow, Russia, Seoul, Korea, Taipei, Taiwan, Beijing, Shanghai, and Wuhan, China, Hong Kong, Sydney, Australia, Czech Republic, Belgium, Italy and Spain.
He has been featured on NPR’s “The Sunday Show” and with Bill McGlaughlin of “St. Paul Sunday”, and has given chamber recitals with Lynn Harrell, Leonard Rose, Jaime Laredo, and Peter Wiley.  In September of 2009 Eugene and Elisabeth Pridonoff were featured on national televised CBS Sunday Morning.  His former students hold collegiate teaching positions throughout the world and have been first-place winners in the Horowitz, Missouri Southern, American Pianists Association, Shreveport Wideman, and Midland-Odessa competitions. In March of 2005, he and his wife Elizabeth Pridonoff were interviewed and featured on the cover of Clavier Magazine and in the Chinese magazine Piano Artistry in September of 2006.
Eugene Pridonoff regularly performs and teaches in the Orient and has made twelve trips to Japan, performing in Tokyo, Sapporo, Yamagata, Osaka, and Sendai.   He was presented in recital in Seoul, Korea in 2004 at the Ewon Cultural Center and for many summers performed and taught at the Amalfi Coast Music Festival in Italy, International Piano Week of Belgium, and the Barcelona Festival.  He now serves as co-artistic director of the CCM Prague International Piano Institute.
In 1982 Eugene and Elisabeth Pridonoff formed the Pridonoff Duo and have concertized internationally.  Under the management of Alkahest Artists & Attractions, Eugene Pridonoff has recorded for Ablaze and Vienna Modern Masters label and is a Steinway Artist.

Programming for this concert includes: Mozart’s The Magic Flute Overture, Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto #1; Copland’s Appalachian Spring, & Ravel’s Bolero.

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