FROM THE OPERA HOUSE TO OUTBACK TOWNS...

Tetiana Koldunenko interviewed pianist Roman Rudnytsky from US. Roman Rudnytsky is son of Antin Rudnytsky, Composer, conductor, pianist, teacher, and musicologist; member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society. Studying initially under his father, he graduated from the Philadelphia Conservatory and the Juilliard School of Music in New York. He has performed as a soloist and with symphony orchestras in the United States, Canada, Spain, Switzerland, Germany, Poland, and Ukraine and taught music at the University of Indiana and Youngstown State University in Ohio. His repertoire includes the works of Western composers as well as Borys Liatoshynsky, George Fiala, Antin Rudnytsky, and other Ukrainian composers. Roman Rudnytsky, concert pianist from the USA, has performed in 100 countries. Mr. Rudnytsky is prizewinner of ten national and international competitions, including being a second-prize winner in 1965 in the International Leventritt Competition in New York-the most prestigious competition for pianists and violinists in the USA at that time. He has played many concerts and conducted many masterclasses since 1984 through US Embassies in over 35 countries - with repeat visits to many. He has been soloist with many orchestras around the world - playing with them over 45 different works for piano and orchestra. He gave the British, Latin American, and Australian premiere performances in the early 1990's of the then-newly-discovered (1989) Liszt Concerto No.3 in E Flat. He has also played recitals on about 65 cruises of P&O and Cunard ships. His most recent concerts (2017) took place in Britain, the Pacific islands of Saipan and Guam, Alaska and other places in the USA, Australia (20th tour - 21 concerts), and on five cruises of Cunard ships - all three of them. In February 2018, he performed again on Saipan and also on the island of Majuro (Marshall Islands). Mr. Rudnytsky fulfilled his 13th tour in New Zealand in March, playing five recitals. He has come to Australia on tour every two years since 1979 and has played approximately 600 concerts here, in all states and territories - from the Sydney Opera House to many country and outback towns. His 2019 tour is his 21st in Australia, with 30 concerts in total Mr Rudnytsky will be showcasing works from Brahms, Beethoven, Albeniz, Chopin, Bach, Grieg, Copland, Debussy and Liszt. (Performed in the Margaret River HEART, Wednesday 14 August 7pm).

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