Thomas C. Miller, Acting Dean, Division of the Arr.s

.No37 Toradze Piano Studio Concert March 17, 2000

Etude Tableaux in C Major, Op. 33 S. Rachmaninov

l Etude Tableaux in c sharp minor, Op. 33 I Edisher Savitsky fu a co\1rtcsy to the artists and to other members of the :audience, l:1tec<.lmen ,,.,ill be seared at an appropriate thne. For the satnc reasons, ren1rn to seating follov.ti.ng inter• 1 mission should be prompL Attendance by children under the age orresponsible behav­ ior is disco\lraged. ' Sonata No. 1, Op. 1 in fminor S. Prokofiev Audio and video recording c.quipmc::nt, c:amer:as. cellular phones or other electronic Jenny Cruz devices ,nay not be used a, any pcrforn1ancc in any auditorh,n1 ofIUSll Pagers and ccU phones brought into a performance h,U should be furned off.

Talking or Jn2king noise ofany kind during any ixrformance is prohibited, :tnd ushers reserve the right to re1nove anyone creating a disruption or ,vho is in any way a distur­ Ballade No. 2, Op. 1 in F Major F. Chopin bance to the perfonner(s) or other audience n1e1nbcrs. Eating and drinking in the C:unpus Auditorium, Recital I JaU and Upstage are prohibited. S1noking is not pennit.. Mikiko Hanaoka tcd in any building oflndiana University South llend.

Audience memben ,vishing to greet the performers shou]d proceed 10 the lounge and cortldor on the cast side ofthe auditorium. Please do not enter the back st.age area fol­ lowing che perrorrnance. Polonaise-Fantasy in A Flat Major, Op. 61 F. Chopin Yong Im Lee

Waltz in A flat Major, Op. 69, No. 1 F. Chopin

ARTS IUSI Valse Brillante in F Major, Op. 34, No. 3 11tt•2000St.UON rc,::1 Ketcvan Badridze ~t~ TMDfY'IIK*...... IMMIU IOlh A••tYIIISAll'I' J_ ! Hungarian Rhapsody, No. 2 F. Liszt The Toradze Piano Studio (Cadenza by Chang Sung) About the Performers Fantasy on a Theme from Carmen G. Ilizet-V. Horowitz I,, Sean Botkin Chang Sung l Juilliard graduate Scan Botkin began studying the J piano at age five with his mother, making his first orchestral appearance four years later with the Ttr1ermissio11 Honolulu Symphony. Mr. Botkin has won many awards, including fourth prize at the 1999 Cleveland International Piano Competition and the World Piano Competition in Cincinnati, and sixth prize at Toccata in e minor J. S. Bach ~ the Gina Bachauer Competjtion in June, 1998. Itwas Natia Shioshvili • his eighth appearance in amajor national or international competition. He • has placed in the top five in such competitions as the Concorso l Internationale F. Ilusoni in Italy and the International Music Competition Variations on a Theme ofHandel, Op. 24 J. Brahms in Japan (in which he also won the audience award) and the Dong-A Genadi Zagor • International Music Competition of Korea, the International Music Competition of Japan, and the Washington International Competition. Mr. Botkin received his bachelor ofmusic degree from Stanford University • and his master ofmusic degree from theJuilliard School ofMusic. He has studied with Martin Canin, Adolph Baller, and Neal O'Doan, including Variations on a Theme ofPaganini J. Brahms • other fine teachers, and has appeared in recitals throughout the country. Scan .Botkin Mr. Botkin appeared in the IUSB Piano Festival in November 1998 as a t Toradze Concerto Institute Fellow, and returned to South Bend in January Waltz, "Blue Danube" J. Strauss 1999 as a member of the Toradze Piano Studio. He joined Alexander Svetlana Smolina Toradze and others from the Toradze Studio in the pretigious music festi­ val, "Settinume Musicali di Stresa e de/ Ligo Maggiore" in Stresa, Italy last sum­ mer. His engagements have included the Rachmaninov Festival in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Mr. Botkin was appointed as an adjunct lecturer in piano last fall, and is pursuing an Artist Diploma as a student ofProfessor Toradzc. Jenny Cruz throughout parts of Chile, including the Music Festival of Frutillar, the Born in Topeka, Kansas and raised in Milwaukee, Chopin Cycle in the National Library ofSantiago, the homeage to Claudio Wisconsin, Jenny Cruz began taking piano lessom Arrau in Chillan, and during the Young Pianists Cycle in Universidad with Suzanne Lent. While under the tutelage ofLent, Mctropolitana de Ciencias de Educacion. She has appeared as a soloist with she won several first prizes in the greater Milwaukee orchestras such as Orquesta Sinfonica de Concepcion and Orquesta Santa area piano competitions. Ms. Cruz graduated from Cecilia de Chillan. Ms. Lee has also performed with chamber music groups Brookfield East High School a semester early to begin in various concert halls throughout Santiago, among them Escuda her piano studies with Alexander Toradze at IUSll in Moderna de Musica, lnstituto Chileno Norteamcricano de Cultura, and January 1996. Centro Cultural Montecarmelo. In August 1996 she came to the United States to join the Toradze Piano Studio at IUSB, and since then has per­ formed with the IUSB Philharmonic and in numerous recitals throughout Mikiko Hanaoka the area. Ms. Lee is pursuing a bachelor's degree in music at IUSB. Mikiko Hanaoka has studied piano since she was three years old. Her continued studies led her to the Edisher Savitsky OsakaJunior College ofMusic, where she graduated Edisher Savitsky is a native of the R.epublic of in 1995. While studying with Pr. Minako Kasahara Georgia. At the age of six he entered the Tbilisi she performed many concerts in Osaka and Kyoto. In Music School to study with Maya Beridzc. In 1994 he 1996 Ms. Hanaoka came to the United States, and in was accepted in the Tbilisi State Conservatory, where 1997 was invited to appear at the Utah International he studied with Professor Nan Khubutia. Savitsky has Summer Music Festival, studying with Gail Niwa. performed actively as a soloist and chamber musician She has appeared in numerous chamber recitals, solo recitals and master­ in Georgia. In 1995 he played at the Festival orga­ classes, and has played at Ongakuno Tomo Hall in Osaka. Ms. Hanaoka nized by the international charity program called and has been a member ofthe Toradze Piano Studio since 1997. "New Names" and the Ministry ofculture ofR.ussia, where he was a prize winner and received a special grant. In 1998 he joined the Toradze Piano Studio. In March 1999 he won the 2"' prize at the William S. Byrd Yong-Im Lee International Piano Competition in Flint, Michigan. Last summer he was Yong-Im Lee began her piano studies at the age of invited to the Music Academy ofthe West in Santa Barbara, CA, where he six in Seoul, Korea. In 1987 her family moved to took master classes with Jerome Lowenthal, and joined Alexander Toradze Santiago. Chile and she continued her studies in and others from the Toradze Studio in a music festival in Stresa, Italy. He Escueal Moderna de M usica. From 1990 she partici­ is pursuing an Artist Diploma at IUSB. pated in several international competitions in Chile such as "Saint Cecilia" and "Claudio Arrau," obtain­ ing several first prizes. Since making her solo debut in 1992 in Rio Cuarto, Argentina, she has performed Svetlana Smolina Genadi Zagor, Piano Svetlana Srnolina was born in Novgorod where she began her musical Gcnadi Zagor was born in Krasnodar, Russia while the Communists were sti ll in power. He started his music studies as a "vunderkind" at the crainingat the age ofseven. By 1992 ihe had twice won the National Piano age offour with his father, a foremost guitarist and composer. He graduat­ Competition. wluch led to numerous appearances with orchestras, in solo ed from Krasnodar's Rimsky-Korsakov College ofMusic in 1989. On full recitals, and on tcleVISion. In Augim, 1993 she won the lnternauonal Pw10 «holarslup he studied at Moscow State Conservatory with Mikhail Competition, "C1tta di Senigallia", m Italy, which was followed by a series Mezhlumov, one ofRussia', leading teachers. of successful tours throughout Italy and Denmark. In 1998 she won the With the Russian miluary 111 pursuit, he defected to Israel in 1991. There he enjoyed family life with hi, wife Julia and Im son Dand. grand prize in the senior piann concerto division at the King~viUc (Texas) Ccnadi has won several prizes throughout his career including the International Young Performers Competition. As a result ofthis victory, North Caucuses Music Competition, the Gina Dachaucr International she also received a recital engagement al the Festival de San Miguel de Music Competition, the Francoise Shapira Music Competition and the Allende. She has performed with the Corpus Christi Symphony Occltcstra, "Voice ofMusic" Competition ofRadio Israel.

among others, and has appeared at the White Nights festival 111 SL Petersburg, Russia, the Mikkeli Music Festival in Finland, the Gecgiev Music Festival in Rotterdam, and in Stcesa, Italy la.~t summer with other members ofthe Toradze Piano Studio. About the Toradze Piano Studio The Toradze Piano Studio has been hailed by ranking music critics Chang Sung Woog from I lchinki to London to Tokyo as "the single most imprcs,ivc group of A native ofKorea, Chang Sung Woog began his piano studies at the age piano students in the world." These sensational young artists presented ofseven, and at the age ofeight was already presenting public recitals. He today represent Professor Alexander Toradze's excraordinary personality, powerful interpretations and the striking freslmess ofhis own playing. The received many prestigious awards for his playing, including the fir,t prize 111 the International Young Pianist Co111pctition. After his family relocated to Studio 1s presented in concerts throughout the US and internatiooally. Malaysi, he furthered his studies at Sunwave Music School under the guid­ ance of David G. Robinson, a faculty member at the Trinity College of Music in London. Chang Sung received numerous awards throughout his piano career, mcluding a Highest Distinction Diploma in Piano Performance from Trinny CoUcge ofMusic at the age ofthirteen. I hs pcr­ fom1anccs at music festivals and recitals brought him co IUSB when he was accepted into the Toradze Piano Studio m the fall of 1997. The IUSB Arts Foundation and the Division ofthe Arts Division ofthe Arts Production Office Staff gratefully acknowledge our generous benefactors and sponsors.

Lois K. Carder James Drake Major Benefactors Major Sponsor Acting Director of Production Box Office Staff ($2000) (SS00-999) Sharon Phillips Ernestine M. Radin AM General Celia S. Weiss Box Office Slaff

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lst Source Foundation Dr. & Mrs. Robert Demarce.Jr. Cameron Brainard Kyle Paulk Box Office Staff Carol & Tom Brademas Charles & Anne Hillman Stage Technician NIBCO. lnc. Thomas C. Miller Megan Fisher NIPSCO Chris & Carmi Murphy Erin Snyder Box Office Staff Selmer-ludwig-Steinway Franklin D. Schurz.Jr. Adrninislrative Assistant Barbara K. Warner

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