Eugene Pridonoff

Professor of Piano
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
Eugene.Pridonoff@uc.edu

Eugene Pridonoff has maintained an international performing and teaching career since 1965 when he was a laureate in the Leventritt, Montreal, Brazil, and Tschaikowsky competitions. That same year, he was appointed to the piano faculty of Temple University and in the ensuing decades established himself internationally as one of the leading performing pedagogues. A graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, his major teachers included Rudolf Serkin, Mieczyslaw Horszowski, and Lillian Steuber.

He has performed with orchestras throughout the world including the New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, National Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic, Central Opera Orchestra of Beijing, and the San Salvador Symphony Orchestra, under such conductors as Ozawa, Solomon, Kostelanetz, Gielen, Prausnitz, Harsanyi, Samuel, William Smith and Lawrence Leighton Smith. He has also given solo and duo recitals as well as master classes throughout North, Central, and South America, Russia, Tokyo, Osaka, Sapporo, Sendai, and Yamagata, Japan, Beijing's Central Conservatory, Shanghai Conservatory, Wuhan Conservatory, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong Academy of Arts, Taipei National University of the Arts, Taiwan National Normal University, Tunghai University; Kaohsiung Normal University, National Chiao Tung University, Soochow University, Tainan Woman’s College of Art and Technology, Seoul National University, Kumho Gallery, Korean National Conservatory of Music, Yonsei University, Ehwa University, Sydney Conservatorium in Australia, Czech Republic, Belgium, Italy and Spain.

He has been featured on NPR's "The Sunday Show" and with Bill McGlaughlin of "St. Paul Sunday", and has given chamber recitals with Lynn Harrell, Leonard Rose, Jaime Laredo, and Peter Wiley. Identified in the publication The Most Wanted Piano Teachers in the United States, by Benjamin Saver, Eugene Pridonoff has been a featured performer, teacher and lecturer at the World Piano Pedagogy Conferences and DVD’s of his sessions have been distributed internationally. He has performed and lectured at the American Liszt Festival conferences, and at the Great Romantics Festival in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada and has been an adjudicator for the Casadesus, American Chopin, Joanna Hodges, Washington International, Midland-Odessa, and many state, regional, and national MTNA competitions. He has also served as a consultant with Rudolf Serkin, Isaac Stern and other prominent artists to the National Endowment for the Arts to establish grants for recitalists to promote the careers of young instrumentalists.

His former students hold collegiate teaching positions throughout the world and have been first-place winners in the Horowitz, Missouri Southern, American Pianists Association, Shreveport Wideman, and Midland-Odessa competitions. In March of 2005, he and his wife Elizabeth Pridonoff were interviewed and featured on the cover of Clavier Magazine.

Eugene Pridonoff regularly performs and teaches in the Orient and has made five trips to Japan since 2003 where he has played three solo recitals in Tokyo and was presented in recital in Seoul, Korea in 2004 at the Ewon Cultural Center. In the summers he also performs and teaches at the Amalfi Coast Music Festival in Italy, the Barcelona International Music Festival, the Prague International Piano Masterclasses, and International Piano Week of Belgium.

In 1982, Eugene and Elizabeth Pridonoff formed the Pridonoff Duo and have performed internationally. They were appointed Duo-in-Residence at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music in 1986 and gave their Tully Hall and Kennedy Center debuts that same year. Formerly on the faculties of Temple, Iowa State and Arizona State Universities, Eugene Pridonoff has recorded for the Vienna Modern Masters label. He was appointed an International Steinway Artist in 2004.

Mr. Pridonoff has been a member of faculty of the College-Conservatory of Music since 1980.