Pianist Rudnytsky once again on world tour (05/27/01)

Pianist Rudnytsky once again on world tour

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio - Concert pianist Roman Rudnytsky is set to resume a busy schedule of concerts which will take him to various parts of the world in the next months. A graduate of the Juilliard School in New York, he has now performed in 75 countries more than most other classical performers of any kind.

Mr. Rudnytsky was on tour from April 12 until May 2 in Britain, Thailand and Malaysia, giving a total of seven recitals. In Thailand, he played in Bangkok, Chiang Mai and Hat Yai. His Malaysian concerts took place in Penang, Subang (both in peninsular Malaysia) and in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah (on the island of Borneo).

From May 11 through l8, he performed recitals in Scotland and on four of the Channel Islands (Alderney, Sark, Guernsey and Jersey) and, following that, he performed six recitals aboard the cruise ship Arcadia of the British P&O Line on a 12-day Mediterranean cruise from Southampton. Ports of call will include Barcelona, Monte Carlo, Livorno (Italy), Calvi (Corsica) and Gibraltar. Mr. Rudnytsky has performed as classical pianist on 25 P&O cruises in the past.

From mid-June until the end of August, Mr. Rudnytsky will fulfill his 12th tour in Australia, playing 20 concerts in all. In mid-September, he will return to Britain for further recitals and will also play a recital in Iceland in the newest concert hall of that country, the Salurinn. Late October-early November will see his eighth tour of Chile and in November he will also play in Canada, at the Conrad Grebel College in Ontario and in Maryland.

For the first part of 2002, there will be a recital tour of a number of Pacific islands of Micronesia (in February). March 2002 will see concerts in Britain and in April 2002 he will perform in Poland as soloist with the Sudecka Filharmonia orchestra in the city of Walbrzych near the Czech border. Other recitals will be at several colleges in the United States.

For early April 2002, Mr. Rudnytsky has been invited to play a recital for the assembled participants of the world "Titanic Convention 2002," to be held in Bangor, Northern Ireland on the 90th anniversary of the disaster. Mr. Rudnytsky, with a strong interest in this subject, belongs to three Titanic historical societies and owns several rare and genuine Titanic artifacts.

Last year, Mr. Rudnytsky's concert tours included Britain, Venezuela, New Zealand (seventh tour with 13 recitals), two P&O cruises, six countries of Central and West Africa (Chad, Benin, Togo, Guinea, Burkina Faso and Mali), and here in the United States. Featured in his concerts last year was one of the most difficult and landmark works for the piano: Beethoven's "Hammerklavier" Sonata. He has just completed his 29th year as a member of the piano faculty of the Dana School of Music of Youngstown State University in Ohio, from which he received a "Distinguished Professor Award" in 1990.

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