Roman Rudnytsky performs concerts from Australia, to Britain, to Chile (06/06/99)

Roman Rudnytsky performs concerts from Australia, to Britain, to Chile

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio - Concert pianist Roman Rudnytsky one of the most traveled of all classical performers, will be on tour for extended concerts from June 6 to September 16.

The core of his activities will be his 11th Australian tour, which will take place June 25 to September 1, comprising 21 concerts in all the mainland Australian states. Among these concerts will be appearances as soloist with two orchestras. He will perform the Rachmaninoff Concerto No. 2 in C minor with the Zelman Memorial Orchestra in Melbourne and the Chopin Concerto No. 1 in E minor with the Cairns (Queensland) Youth Orchestra.

Mr. Rudnytsky, who has now played in 70 countries around the world, first visited Australia in 1979 and has played about 350 concerts there in all.

Before and after the Australian tour, he will give six recitals on two cruises from Britain to the Mediterranean. From June 6 to June 20 he will be performing aboard the Oriana. Ports of call to be visited include Gibraltar, the islands of Elba, Corsica, Menorca and Mallorca, Monte Carlo, Toulon (France), and Santa Margherita and Livorno (both in Italy).

Mr. Rudnytsky's concerts since the fall of 1998 have included a recital in Tunisia as part of the music festival "October Musicales de Carthage" (at the famous ruins), performances in Venezuela as soloist with the orchestras of the cities of Maracaíbo and Mérida, his sixth tour in Chile (seven recitals), recitals in Britain, plus performances aboard the Victoria on a Caribbean cruise from Barbados. (Both the Oriana and the Victoria belong to the British P&O company - one of the largest and oldest of all cruise liners.)

On Sunday, May 2, Mr. Rudnytsky played a recital for the Cleveland-area Ukrainian community as a fund-raiser for a charity helping blind children in Lviv.

Planned concerts in the fall of this year include his seventh tour in Chile (late October), a recital on the island of Aruba (November) and performances in the U.S. Since 1972 Mr. Rudnytsky has been a member of the piano faculty of the Dana School of Music of Youngstown State University and in 1990 received a "Distinguished Professor Award" from that institution.

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