Mr. Gliadkovsky is an orchestra and choral conductor and also performs on harpsichord. He is a part of “4Gs family piano team” with his wife, Anna, a concert pianist and their daughters, Anastasia and Sophia. He also served as the music director and organist at Westwood Hills Christian Church in Los Angeles for 10 years. Mr. Gliadkovsky combines his busy concert schedule with teaching at Saddleback College as the Director of Keyboard Studies and Chair of the Music Department. This season he will tour to New York, Maryland, Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin, Texas, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, California, Tennessee, Costa Rica and more. Prior to his position at Saddleback, he was on the piano faculty at USC GUEST ARTIST RECITAL and Santa Monica College and served as the head of the piano area at SUU (Southern Utah University) in Cedar City, UT. He is in demand as a masterclass artist-teacher and piano adjudicator in piano competitions in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Phoenix, San Francisco, Salt Lake City, Dallas, Columbus, Washington, D.C. and many other cities. His students have won prizes at various piano contests and have been accepted at schools such as USC, UCLA, Manhattan School of Music, KIRILL Northwestern University, Peabody and San Francisco Conservatories, UC Berkeley, UCSB, UNT, BYU, USU and others, often with fellowship and scholarship awards. UPCOMING EVENTS GLIADKOVSKY * Events marked with an asterisk are free with a valid Music Major Pass. PIANO • Sunday, March 12, 2017: Faculty Artist Recital, Orpheus Duo: Mark Uranker & Althea Waites, piano 4:00pm Daniel Recital Hall Tickets $10/7 * • Saturday, April 8, 2017: Multi-Piano Extravaganza, Shun-Lin Chou, director 4:00pm Daniel Recital THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2017 Hall Tickets $15/10 • Saturday, April 22, 2017: 8:00PM Piano Showcase, Shun-Lin Chou, director 4:00pm Daniel Recital Hall Tickets $10/7 * GERALD R. DANIEL RECITAL HALL For upcoming events please call 562.985.7000 or visit the web at: PLEASE SILENCE ALL ELECTRONIC MOBILE DEVICES. This concert is funded in part by the INSTRUCTIONALLY RELATED ACTIVITIES FUNDS (IRA) provided by California State University, Long Beach. PROGRAM ABOUT KIRILL GLIADKOVSKY Mr. Gliadkovsky’s performances have been met with great enthusiasm by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): both audiences and music critics in Europe, Russia and North America. Josef Woodard, a critic at the Los Angeles Times, wrote: “...the intensity and Prelude in B Minor................................................................................................. a nicely honed musicality left the audience stunned...enthralling...all in all, a trans. Alexander Siloti (1863-1945) gripping and masterful performance.” Dany Margolies at The Malibu Times describes his playing: “wondrous range...impassioned depth...enormous Choral Prelude Nun freut euch, liebe Christen, gemein physical and emotional power...a complete artist.” “Fine dramatic sense… (Dear Christians, One and All, Rejoice) BWV 734 .......................................... appealing range of emotional effects and pianistic devices…wonderful,” trans. Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924) writes Fort Worth Star-Telegram; “The most impressive…memorable… deep musician… fine interpretation,” Izvestia (Moscow, Russia). Chaconne in D Minor ........................................................................................... trans. Busoni Since making his first public appearance at age 6, Mr. Gliadkovsky has toured extensively on three continents performing piano and organ recitals and as a soloist with orchestras in various cities, including in Moscow’s prestigious Bolshoi, Maliy and Rachmaninoff Halls and St. Petersburg Philharmonic’s Glinka Hall, as well as cites in Italy, the U.K., Poland, Mongolia, Canada, 3 Selections from Op. 118 .................................................... Johannes Brahms Japan and throughout the U.S. Venues include: Purcell Hall, London; No. 6. Intermezzo in E-Flat Minor (1833-1897) Merkin Hall, New York; Jack Singer Hall, Calgary; Royce Hall, Los Angeles; No. 3. Ballade in G Minor Orange County Performing Arts Center, Costa Mesa; Centers for the Arts, Scottsdale and Chandler, AZ; National Gallery of Art and Catholic University, Washington, DC; 1st Congregational Church, Los Angeles; and Philharmonic Hall, Poznan, Poland. He has also performed at various Fantaisie in F Minor, Op. 49 ...................................................Frédéric Chopin music festivals, such as Aspen, Ventura, Music in the Mountains, Redlands (1810-1849) Bowl festivals in the U.S. and the Credomatic Festival in Costa Rica. He has worked with well-known conductors such as Pierre Boulez, Mehli Mehta, Gordon Johnson, John Farrer, Mischa Semanitzky, and Patrick Flynn. INTERMISSION Mr. Gliadkovsky is frequently a featured artist in numerous live TV and radio broadcasts and programs on such networks as NPR, CBS, PBS, CBC, WQXR, KBYU, KPAC, Russian State TV and Radio and others. He has recorded six CDs for Alexei Records and for CMK Classics labels. “Wanderer” Fantasy in C Major, Op. 15 (D 760) .................Franz Schubert (1797-1828) Kirill Gliadkovsky was born in Moscow and has studied music since the age of 5. He attended the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow where his teachers included the renowned musicians, Lev Vlasenko, Mikhail Impromptu in G-Flat Major, Op. 90, No. 3 ...................................... Schubert Pletniev (piano), and Leonid Royzman (organ). He earned both his Master and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees at USC and studied with Professors Daniel Pollack (piano), Cherry Rhodes (organ), and William “Dante” Sonata ...................................................................................Franz Liszt Schaefer (conducting). He also coached with Ann Schein, Herbert Stessin, (Fantasia quasi sonata Après une lecture du Dante) (1811-1886) Stephen Kovacevich and Lev Naumov and has taken numerous prizes at international piano competitions in Europe and the United States. 2 3.