a junior achievement award in 2005 and additional achievement awards in 2007 and 2008. He successfully completed four Toradze Piano Studio national 10-piece and one international 15-piece programs. Dimitri Zhgenti joined the Toradze Piano Studio in fall 2008. Sunday November 24, 2013 4:00 pm Campus Auditorium, Northside Hall Upcoming Events The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) Fantasia in c minor, K. 475 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Three people recreate the entire Shakespearean cannon in a Natasha Stojanovska whirlwind comedic romp in less two hours. 8 pm December 3-6 and 4 pm December 7 Upstage, Northside Hall, Tickets $5-$9 Venezia e Napoli Franz Liszt Tarantella BFA Student Exhibition I JooHee Jeong View the capstone exhibition of our graduating Fine Arts and New Media students featuring their finest artwork Open Wednesday, December 4 – Saturday, December 14 Piano Concerto No. 2 in c minor, Op. 18 Sergei Rachmaninoff Reception 5-9 pm and Gallery Talk 6 pm Friday, December 6 III. Allegro scherzando Art Gallery, Education and Arts Building Whi La Choi Hours: 12-5 pm Monday – Saturday JooHee Jeong, second piano Euclid Quartet String Studio Enjoy a selection of solo and small ensemble string pieces, including Caprice espagnol, Op. 37 Moritz Moszkowski the Mendelssohn Octet, by students of the Euclid Quartet. Dimitri Zhgenti 7:30 pm Thursday, December 5 Lecture Hall, Education and Arts Building, Tickets $3-$5 Spanish Rhapsody Liszt Teddy Bear Concert Ketevan Kartvelishvili A choral concert with dancers, a kick line, and jazz band performing festive music including ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas. Collecting new Teddy Bears for charity in exchange for concert tickets. INTERMISSON 7:30 pm Saturday, December 7, Campus Auditorium, Northside Hall Tickets $3-$12 | FREE to students/children 574.520.4203 | arts.iusb.edu The Orpheum Theatre in Phoenix, and the Shimmel Hall in Braunsweig Germany as part of the Braunschweig Classix 3 Etudes Frédéric Chopin Festival. No. 1 – in C Major No. 5 – Vivace in G-flat Ilia's teachers have included Faina Eizenberg, Asaf No. 22 – Allegro con fuoco in b minor Zohar, and Baruch Meir. In 2013 Ilia graduated with a Siwon Kim bachelors degree from the Colburn School in Los Angeles where he was studying with John Perry. He will pursue his master’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in D flat Major, Op. 10 Sergei Prokofiev degree with Alexander Toradze at IU South Bend. In addition he III. Allegro scherzando has participated in masterclasses with world renowned artists Faith Gioja such as Nikolai Petrov, Alexandre Mnodaynts, Emanuel Dimitri Zhgenti, second piano Krasovsky, John O'Connor, Richard Goode, and Menahem Pressler. He was the recipient of numerous merit scholarships Piano Concerto No. 3 in C, Op. 26 Prokofiev for his outstanding musicianship from the America-Israel III. Allegro ma non troppo Cultural Foundation. Ilia Ulianitsky Natasha Stojanovska, second piano Dimitri Zhgenti started learning music when he was nine years old. At that age he began attending Music School in Capriccio Igor Stravinsky Tbilisi, Georgia. After one year, he started studying music under Alexander Toradze the direction of Rusudan Hodjava, Professor of Piano in Tbilisi Siwon Kim, second piano State Conservatory of Music. At the age of 12 Dimitri moved to America, where he continued to study piano with Associate Professor of Piano Judith Shopflin at Whitworth College in Members of the Toradze Piano Studio are supported by the Spokane, Wash. A year later he began participating in the Rex and Alice A. Martin Foundation and The Martin Foundation, Inc. various adjudication programs and the National Guild of Pianists auditions. While in Washington, Zhgenti received honorable mentions from the Music Teachers National Association in Des Moines (2004) and Vancouver (2005). In 2007 Dimitri won First Place in the Washington State Music Teachers Association Competition. After moving from Spokane to Vancouver, Wash., Dimitri began studying piano under the direction of Joanna Hodges. As a member of the Joanna Hodges Studio he received Competition (2009) in her duo, The Sisters Stojanovska; Biographies Walenstein Competition in Miami (2008); Liszt-Bartok Sofia, Bulgaria (2006); among others. In masterclasses she has worked This December Mr. Alexander Toradze is performing in with many prominent pianists: Robert McDonald, Arie Vardi, Samara and Kemerovo, Russia, and Beijing, China, with Valery Garry Grafmann, NormanKrieger, Yosip Yermin, Roswita Gergiev and the Mariinski Orchestra; and in Paris, France, with Gediga, and Jeffery Biegel. In the summer of 2010 she took part Orchestra de Paris, with Mikko Franck conducting. In January in the IKIF in New York City and worked with Olga Kern, 2014 he is performing with the Budapest Festival Orchestra, Ivan Alexander Kobrin, Jerome Rose, Victor Rosenbaum, and Eduard Fisher conducting, in various European capitals. Later in the Zilberkant. season Mr. Toradze will perform with the Frankfurt Radio Ms. Stojanovska was born in Prilep, Macedonia and Orchestra, Paavo Jarvi conducting, and orchestras in Costa Mesa, began to play the piano at age eight. She completed her Bachelor Calif., United States; Dresden, Germany; and Kazan, Russia. of Music at the Conservatory of Music at Lynn University in On May 3, 2014, the Toradze Piano Studio of the Boca Raton, Fla. with Roberta Rust. Ms. Stojanovska is Ernestine M. Raclin School of the Arts at IU South Bend, and currently working on her master’s degree at IU South Bend in the Mr. Toradze, will perform at the Morris Performing Arts Center studio of Martin Endowed Professor in Piano Alexander Toradze. with the South Bend Symphony Orchestra, Tsung Yeh conducting. Ilia Ulianitsky was born in Russia in 1989 and In August 2014 Mr. Toradze will perform at London immigrated with his family to Israel in 1993. He was awarded Proms, in Prince Albert Hall, with the London Philharmonic top prizes at the Pnina Zalzsman, the "Golden Chanukia," and the Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski conducting. Chopin competitions in Israel. Away from his home country, he Born in Tbilisi, Georgia, Alexander Toradze graduated was awarded first prize at the 3rd Schimmel USASU from the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory where he then International Competition, first prize at the World Pianovision became a professor. Since 1983 he has lived in the United Most Wanted Competition, Tucson Symphony Young Artist States. In 1991 he was appointed Martin Endowed Professor in competition, and the ASU Soloists competition, among others. Piano at IU South Bend, where he has created a teaching Mr. Ulianitsky has performed as soloist with the Israel environment that is unparalleled in its unique concept. The Symphonieta, the Beer-Sheva Mandolin Orchestra, with whom members of the multi-national Toradze Piano Studio have he toured Serbia and Bulgaria, the Symphony of the Southwest, developed into a worldwide touring ensemble that has gathered the West Valley Symphony, the MusicaNova Baroque Ensemble, critical acclaim on an international level. the ASU Symphony, and the Tucson Symphony Orchestra. Ilia Mr. Toradze has appeared with the world’s leading has played such venues as the Jerusalem Theater-Henery Krown conductors and orchestras. In North America, with the: New Hall, the Jerusalem Music Center, The Tucson Symphony Hall, York Philharmonic, The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, San Times Concours (2007), GMI Competition (2002, 2003), The Francisco, Seattle, Minnesota, Montreal, Baltimore, and Sungjung Cultural Foundation Concours (2007), and got prizes in Washington D.C. symphonies, among others. In Europe, with the Samick-Beckstein Concours (2006), The Teenagers the: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, La Scala Philharmonic, Competition (2003), The Korea-America Cultural Foundation Bayerische Rundfunk Orchestra, Orchestre National de France, Concours (2000), The National Students Concours (2000, 2001, City of Birmingham Symphony, London’s Symphony, 2002, 2003), The Suri Music Competition (2010), and The Philharmonic and Philharmonia Orchestras, Israel Philharmonic, Eumak Choonchu Concours (2002). Ms. Kim obtained a B.A. at and the orchestras of Germany, Hungary, The Netherlands, Seoul National University in Korea in 2012 while studying with Sweden, Finland, and Italy. He is a frequent guest of the NHK Prof. Hyoung-Joon Chang. Orchestra in Tokyo and Seoul Philharmonic. Mr. Toradze’s recording of all five Prokofiev concertos Pianist Natasa Stojanovska won the 2009 Lynn with Valery Gergiev and the Kirov Orchestra for the Philips label Concerto Competition and appeared with the Lynn Philharmonia was acclaimed as definitive. His recording of Prokofiev’s Piano in the Prokofiev Second Piano Concerto in January 2010 with Concert No. 3 was named by International Piano Quarterly as Maestro Albert-George Schram conducting. In 2009 she earned “historically the best on record” (from among over 70 the Special Recognition prize (Van Grigsby Johnston Memorial recordings). Other highly successful recordings have included Award) at the 59th Wideman Piano Competition, held in recital albums of the works of Mussorgsky, Stravinsky, Ravel, Shreveport, La. and was featured in the Tchaikovsky Piano Trio and Prokofiev for the Angel/EMI label, and Scriabin's in the Walenstein Chamber Concerts at the Broward Center in Prometheus, “The Poem of Fire" with the Kirov Orchestra, Fort Lauderdale and Gusman Concert Hall in Miami, Fla. She Valery Gergiev conducting. In 2012 Mr. Toradze