Eugene Pridonoff
Piano

Eugene Pridonoff has maintained an international performing and teaching career since the mid 1960's when he was a laureate in the Leventritt, Montreal, Brazil, and Tchaikowsky competitions. In 1965, he was also appointed to the piano faculty of Temple University and in the ensuing decades established himself internationally as one of the premier performing pedagogues. A graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, his teachers included Rudolf Serkin, Mieczyslaw Horszowski, and Lillian Steuber.

He has performed with the New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, National Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati Symphony, and the Rochester Philharmonic under such conductors as Seiji Ozawa, Maurice Abravanel, William Smith, Howard Mitchell, John Barnett, Izler Solomon, Andre Kostelanetz, Michael Gielen, Frederic Prausnitz, Nicholas Harsanyi, Gerhard Samuel, and Lawrence Leighton Smith, and has given recitals and master classes throughout North, Central, and South America, Russia, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Czech Republic, and Belgium.

He has been a featured performer, teacher and lecturer at the World Piano Pedagogy Conferences and DVD's of his sessions have been distributed internationally. Former students hold positions throughout the world and are first-place winners in major piano competitions including the Horowitz, Missouri Southern, American Pianists Association, Shreveport Wideman, and the Midland-Odessa.

Professor of Piano, Artist-in-Residence, and Duo-in-Residence with Elizabeth Pridonoff at the University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music, he also teaches at the Prague International Piano Masterclasses, and International Piano Week of Belgium. He was appointed an International Steinway Artist in March of 2004.

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