Stanislav Ioudenitch

Stanislav Ioudenitch (born December 5, 1971) is an Uzbekistani-born American pianist, internationally recognized after winning a gold medal at the 2001 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition along with the Steven De Groote Memorial Award for Best Performance of Chamber Music. He has also been a prizewinner at the Busoni, Kapell, and Maria Callas competitions, as well as at the Palm Beach Invitational (1998) and the New Orleans International (2000). Following his Cliburn success, Ioudenitch launched an active international career, appearing with major ensembles including the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, Russian National Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D.C., and the Munich Philharmonic the Rochester Philharmonic, the National Philharmonic of Russia, the Fort Worth Symphony, and the Kansas City Symphony. He has collaborated with prominent conductors such as James Conlon, Valery Gergiev, Mikhail Pletnev, Vladimir Spivakov, Günther Herbig, Michael Stern, and Carl St. Clair, among others. His chamber music partnerships have included performances with the Takács, Prazák, and Borromeo String Quartets, and he was a founding member of the Park Piano Trio.