Stanislav Ioudenitch

Born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Stanislav Ioudenitch has collected top prizes at several international competitions, including the Van Cliburn, Busoni, Kapell, Palm Beach Invitational and the New Orleans International.

A former student of Dmitri Bashkirov at the Escuela Superior de Musica Reina Sofia in Madrid, he attended the International Piano Foundation "Theo Lieven" in Cadenabbia, Italy, working with Leon Fleisher, William Grant Naboré, Murray Perahia, Karl Ulrich Schnabel, Fou Ts'ong and Rosalyn Tureck.

He has performed throughout Europe,  the United States, Turkey, South Africa and China and 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.

His Van Cliburn Competition gold medal won in 2001 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.  The Van Cliburn recital performances were recorded and issued on CD by Harmonia Mundi.

Mr. Ioudenitch is the youngest pianist ever invited to give master classes at the International Piano Academy Lake Como. He now teaches piano at Park University in Missouri, USA.