Elizabeth Pridonoff

Field Service Professor
Artist in Residence

College-Conservatory of Music
University of Cincinnati
P0 Box 210003
Cincinnati, OH 45221-0003
telephone: 5l3-556-9515
fax: 513-556-9641
Elizabeth.Pridonoff@uc.edu

Elizabeth Pridonoff is an internationally known teacher and pianist who has performed and given master classes throughout the world in such places as the Moscow Conservatory, in Rome, (by invitation from the U.S. Ambassador), Siena (at the Academia Chigiana where she received the Diploma of Honor), Munich, London, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Monterrey, Mexico (at the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, and the Sociedad Artistica Technologicao de Monterrey) and throughout Asia.

In 1996 she performed and taught in China at the Central Conservatory in Beijing, the Shanghai Conservatory, the Wuhan Conservatory, and Hong Kong Baptist University doing one-week residencies at each institution. In 1999, she performed and taught in Tokyo at Bosendorfer Hall, and in Taiwan at Duan-Fu Elementary School and Tunghai University in Taichung; National Hsin-Chu Teachers College and National Chiao-Tung University in Hsin-Chu; National Taiwan College of Arts, Soochow University, and Taipai National University of the Arts in Taipei.

A 2001 trip to Korea included Yonsei University, Ehwa University, Choo-Gae University, Gae-Won Music and Art High School, Sun Hwa Music and Art High School, Korea National Conservatory in Seoul, and Chonnam National University, and Honam Theological Seminary in Kwanju. In the fall of 2002, she performed and taught in Taiwan at Tainan Woman's College of Art and Technology for a ten-day residency entitled EAST MEETS WEST, as United States representative of one of four major women musicians on the international music scene.

In March of 2006, she is scheduled to perform and teach in Sendai and Tokyo, Japan.

In the United States she has appeared with the Nashville Symphony, Oklahoma City Symphony, Shreveport Symphony, El Paso Symphony, Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, Northern Kentucky Symphony, Middletown (Ohio) Symphony, Boise Philharmonic, Illinois Philharmonic, and the New Philharmonic Orchestra of Irving (Texas) and performed and given master classes for the Dallas Piano Teachers, the Shepherd School of Music of Rice University, the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Houston, Stephen F. Austin State University as part of the Texas Music Teachers Association state competition, the Kentucky Music Teachers Association, the South Carolina Music Teachers Association, the Chicago Duo Piano Festival, Michigan Music Teachers Association, the American Liszt Conferences and the Great Romantics Festival in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

Her solo and duo performances during the 2003-04, 2004-05 and 2005-06 concert season included solo recitals on the Xavier University Piano Series, Wittenberg University, Wright State University, Campbellsburg University, R. Inman Johnson Concert Series at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary by invitation from Maurice Hinson, Miami University in Ohio, Converse College in South Carolina, and duo recitals at the Newberry Opera House in South Carolina, the inaugural duo piano recital on the island of Bermuda, the American Liszt Society Festival at the University of Nebraska, Michigan Music Teachers Association, Friends of Four-Hands in Detroit, and the Great Romantics Festival in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

In 1982, she and her husband Eugene Pridonoff formed the Pridonoff Duo, making their debut with the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Paul Nadler. In 1986 the Pridonoff Duo was given the title of Duo in Residence at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, presenting debut recitals at Alice Tully Hall in New York City and at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. They have concertized internationally including Europe, Mexico, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan, Korea, and throughout the U.S. including festivals such as the San Luis Obispo Mozart, Arcady, Western Arts, Lyric Arts, and Shreveport. They have also appeared on recital series and with symphony orchestras throughout the United States.
A graduate of The Juilliard School, she received her M.M. degree in both Piano and Voice studying piano with Sasha Gorodnitski and Adele Marcus, and voice with Hans Heinz. Other teachers were Guido Agosti and Menahem Pressler, chamber music with Leonard Rose, Ivan Galamian, and William Lincer, and vocal accompanying with Martin Isepp. She also holds a B.M. from George Peabody College for Teachers, Vanderbilt University. A first-place winner of several national and international competitions, Elizabeth Pridonoff's students have also been first place winners in piano competitions such as the Second Horowitz International Piano Competition, the Missouri Southern International, The American Pianists Association Biennial Fellowship Auditions, the Shreveport Wideman, The Midland-Odessa, the Pinault International Piano Competition, the Catania International Concerto Competition, the OMTA Buckeye competition, and the Bradshaw and Buono International Piano Competition. Former students hold collegiate faculty positions throughout the U.S., Europe, and the Orient, and have established prominent private studios internationally. In March of 2005 she and her husband Eugene Pridonoff were featured with a cover photo and interview in Clavier Magazine.

Elizabeth Pridonoff's philosophy of teaching is based on the foundation of developing the total individual and that music making is one of the most rewarding of all human endeavors. She sees the role of contemporary music teachers as not only passing on the skills and traditions of playing an instrument and its repertoire, but of helping students discover who they are as people through their art. Active as a clinician, adjudicator, and lecturer, she has been a participant at the World Piano Pedagogy Conferences as performer (1996), co-chair of the Committee on Performance (1996-2000), and Interactive Sessions at the Fort Worth and Orlando Conferences in 1998 and 2001. Her session entitled "Symbolism and Metaphor in Music Making" at the 1998 Ft. Worth conference elicited an article in Clavier Magazine written by John Bell Young, who described her presentation as one of the highlights of the entire conference. She has also adjudicated the Chicago Symphony Young Artist auditions, the Young Keyboard Artists Association, Shreveport Wideman, the National Masters Competition in Memphis, the National Federation of Music Clubs Ellis Competition for Duo-Pianists in 1997, 1999, 2001, and March of 2003, the Texas Music Teachers Association State Competition, in 2002, the finals of the MTNA Junior High and High School Competition. In April of 2003, she performed, judged, and gave master classes for the McKinney Symphony Young Artists Competition, and gave a master class at Texas Christian University in Ft. Worth.

During the summers, she is on the faculty of the Amalfi Music and Arts Festival in Italy, the Barcelona Piano Festival, International Piano Week in Belgium, and has been invited to join the faculty at the Catania International Piano Festival in Sicily.

Elizabeth Pridonoff has been a member of the piano faculty at the University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory since 1982, and a Steinway artist.
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