THE CLASSICAL BEAT Park University’s International Center for Music announces blockbuster 2024-25 season
Park ICM Orchestra and the NAVO Chamber Orchestra conducted by Shah Sadikov, also an ICM graduate.
Stanislav Ioudenitch, a Van Cliburn International Piano Competition gold medalist, founded ICM in 2003. Abduraimov was one of his first students to become an international success, and he’s been cranking out piano superstars ever since. On Oct. 24 at the 1900 Building, “Stanislav Ioudenitch Piano Studio in Recital” will give you a chance to hear his latest batch of competition winners.
The string players at ICM are just as strong as the pianists. They’ll have a chance to strut their stuff Nov. 14 when “Park ICM Presents the String Studios in Recital” at the 1900 Building.
Of course, one of the reasons the string players are so good is that their teachers are the cream of the crop. Two of those teachers, violinist Ben Sayevich and cellist Daniel Veis, along with pianist Lolita Lisovskaya-Sayevich, make up the Park Trio. They’re giving a recital Jan. 24 at the 1900 Building.
One of the great success stories of the ICM string program is violinist David Radzynski, the current concertmaster of the Cleveland Orchestra. Radzynski, who studied under Sayevich at Park, will return to Kansas City to give a recital with Lisovskaya-Sayevich March 14 at the 1900 Building.
Oboists don’t get the spotlight often enough, but on April 11, one of the best in the world, Hansjörg Schellenberger, will give a recital with LisovskayaSayevich at the 1900 Building. Schellenberger has served as the principal oboist of the Berlin