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		Elisabeth Pridonoff Field Service Professor of Piano Phone: 513-556-9515 Email: Elizabeth.Pridonoff@UC.edu Building: Memorial Hall Room: 407
Area of Instruction: Piano Faculty Since: 1982 Credentials: BM, Vanderbilt University; MM, The Juilliard School of Music; Artist Diploma Musicale Academia Chigiana in Siena, Italy Biography: Elisabeth Pridonoff studied with Adele Marcus, Sasha Gorodnitzski, Hans Heinz, Anna Kaskas and Guido Agosti. Chamber music with Leonard Rose, Ivan Galamian, Menahem Pressler; vocal accompanying with Martin Isepp. First-place winner of national and international competitions including the Midland-Odessa, Shreveport, El Paso and Oklahoma City Symphony. Soloist with the Nashville Symphony, the Oklahoma City Symphony, the Shreveport Symphony, the El Paso Symphony, the Cincinnati Chamber, the Boise Philharmonic, the Illinois Philharmonic, and Graz Festival. Performances and master classes in New York and Boston (Baltic Series), Tully Hall, Merkin Hall, Kennedy Center, Baltimore, Toronto Town Hall debut, and throughout the U.S., and internationally at the Moscow Conservatory, Siena, Rome (by invitation from the U.S. Ambassador), Munich, London, Monterrey, Mexico at the Sociedad Artistica Technologicao, and the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, and in Canada, Italy, Spain, Belgium, China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. Other appearances include NPR’s The Sunday Show and with Bill McGlaughlin of St. Paul Sunday. Festival appearances include Chautauqua, San Luis Obispo Mozart, Arcady, Western Arts, Lyric Arts, Shreveport, and Graz. Adjudicator for national and international piano competitions. Current and former students hold faculty positions internationally and have been competition winners in the Second International Competition for Young Pianists in Memory of Vladimir Horowitz in Kiev, Ukraine (First), Missouri Southern International (first, third and finalist): Ninth Biennial American Pianists Association National Piano Fellowship Audition (Fellowship Award); Shreveport Wideman (first, second); Midland-Odessa (first); Young Keyboard Artists Association (two seconds); Ibla (Italy) Grand Prize International Piano Competition (third); and the Joanna Hodges International Piano Competition (second). International career as Pridonoff Duo with Eugene Pridonoff, with performances in New York at Tully and Merkin Halls and at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Faculty, Amalfi Music and Arts Festival, Brevard Music Festival. Steinway Artist. Appointed Duo-in-Residence at CCM in 1986. Faculty, CCM since 1982. Personal Links: Piano program Recent Activities