The Art of Performance

Park University’s International Center for Music presented its annual signature event for the first time since 2019 due to the coronavirus pandemic on March 19, 2022, at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts in Kansas City, Mo.

Stanislav & Friends featured the worldrenowned faculty, students and alumni of Park’s boutique conservatory, keeping the audience of nearly 1,000 classical music enthusiasts on the edge of their seats for more than two hours. The high point of the event was Maurice Ravel’s “Concerto for the Left Hand” featuring event namesake and ICM Artistic Director Stanislav Ioudenitch, performing with the Kansas City Chamber Orchestra.

The orchestra’s appearance was underwritten by the generosity of the Richard J. Stern Foundation for the Arts and Commerce Bank. Cyprienne Simchowitz and Jerry White served as the event’s honorary co-chairs.

Students from the piano studio of Van Cliburn gold medalist Stanislav Ioudenitch received a show-stopping standing ovation for their performance of Ravel’s transcription of Bolero for four pianos.

Students from the piano studio of Van Cliburn gold medalist Stanislav Ioudenitch received a show-stopping standing ovation for their performance of Ravel’s transcription of Bolero for four pianos.

Honorary co-chairs Jerry White and Cyprienne Simchowitz; and the evening’s artists Behzod Abduraimov, Ben Sayevich, Maria Ioudenitch, Stanislav Ioudenitch, Daniel Veis, Igor Khukhua, Kenny Broberg, Anastasia Vorotnaya, Lolita Lisovskaya-Sayevich, Michael Davidman, Kyoshiro Hirama, Sergey Belyavsky and Kansas City Chamber Orchestra Conductor Bruce Sorrell.