Saturday, March 19, 2022 at 8:00 p.m.
Helzberg Hall
On Saturday, March 19, the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts will host Stanislav & Friends 2022! This third annual event allows Kansas City audiences to experience the best of classical music while seated in one of the finest symphony halls in the world. Performing the rare Maurice Ravel’s "Bolero for Four Pianos," the concert also features such students and alumni of Park International Center for Music as 2021 American Pianists Awards Winner Kenny Broberg, superstar pianist Behzod Abduraimov, triple gold medal violinist Maria Ioudenitch, and more, it will be a concert you won’t want to miss! The grand finale will bring down the house with event namesake, (2001 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition Gold Medalist) Stanislav Ioudenitch, performing the amazing "Piano Concerto for the Left Hand" with the Kansas City Chamber Orchestra, After the concert, meet our celebrated artists at a dessert reception. Get your tickets now!
What is so special about this concert? Park University International Center for Music produces musicians who become award-winning performers at prestigious international competitions. Park alumni perform as soloists or as part of celebrated orchestras in the greatest concert halls of the world. Their success is due to Park’s unique boutique music program, which provides a close and intensive European style protégé/master training between our internationally renowned instructors and their students. We invite you to join us in experiencing many of these young stars and their instructors together in concert in Helzberg Hall for Park University’s premier event, under the leadership of artistic director Stanislav Ioudenitch.
The evening’s program will include:
Kenny Broberg, Piano
Op 38, No. 3, Danza Festiva from the Book of Forgotten Melodies by Nikolai Medtner (1880-1951)
Kenny Broberg, Piano
Stanislav Ioudenitch, Piano
Suite No. 1 in G Minor (or Fantaisie-tableaux), Op. 5, for 2 Pianos, Movement III “Tears” by Sergey Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
Igor Khukhua, Violin
Recitativo and Scherzo-Caprice, Op.6 by Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962)
Behzod Abduraimov, Piano
Fantasie Nègre No. 1 in E minor by Florence Price (1887-1953)
Maria Ioudenitch, Violin
Stanislav Ioudenitch, Piano
Romance Op. 4, No. 4 (Do not Sing, My Beauty) by Sergey Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
Danza Espanola No. 1 (Arr. for Violin and Piano by Fritz Kreisler) by Manuel De Falla (1876-1946)
Ben Sayevich, Violin, Daniel Veis, Cello, Lolita Lisovskaya-Sayevich, Piano
Piano trio in E minor op. 90 “Dumky” by Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
Lento maestoso, Allegro vivace
Allegro
Lento maestoso, Vivace
PAUSE
Anastasia Vortonya, Kyoshiro Hirama, Michael Davidman, Sergey Belyavsky, Piano
Bolero by Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
INTERMISSION
Stanislav Ioudenitch, Piano
Bruce Sorrell, Conductor, Kansas City Chamber Orchestra
Piano Concerto for the Left-Hand by Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Program subject to change.
