Concert pianist Roman Rudnytsky departs for around-the-world trip (06/14/98)

Concert pianist Roman Rudnytsky departs for around-the-world trip

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio - Concert pianist Roman Rudnytsky will very soon depart for an around-the-world concert trip. This trip will last from June 10 until August 5. It will be the fifth time that Mr. Rudnytsky will have traveled around the world on a continuous concert trip.

He will begin the tour in Britain, where he will play several recitals in mid-June. He will then proceed to the Sultanate of Brunei in Southeast Asia, where he will play two recitals: in the capital, Bandar Seri Begawan, and in the town of Seria.

After that, Mr. Rudnytsky will spend the month of July in New Zealand where he will fulfill his sixth, and largest, concert tour there, with 21 recitals on both the North and South Islands. He last played in New Zealand in 1995. After a brief visit to Hawaii, he will return home in August.

Three days later he will leave for Britain again to join the flagship Oriana of the British P & O cruise line, where he will play six recitals. This cruise will go from Southampton to Madeira, the Canary Islands (Tenerife, Gran Canaria and Lanzarote), plus Portuguese and Spanish ports. This cruise is scheduled for August 9 and 21.

Later in 1998 there will be concerts in Tunisia and Venezuela in October, in Britain and Chile in November, and another P & O cruise in December - from Barbados to various Caribbean islands.

Mr. Rudnytsky's November tour of Chile (his sixth there) will also be his largest there to date.

In 1998, Mr. Rudnytsky has played recitals in Hawaii (the "Big Island") in January, in the United Kingdom in February, in Canada (Kingston, Ontario) in March, and in the United Kingdom and Malta in early May. His recital in Malta on May 5 was attended by the president of Malta.

Mr. Rudnytsky remains a member of the piano faculty of the Dana School of Music of Youngstown State University, where he has been since 1972.