YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – Concert pianist Roman Rudnytsky has completed a concert tour in Chile – his ninth one there. The recitals took place in the second half of May in the cities of Santiago, Valparaiso, Concepcion, San Carlos and Teno. With assistance from the U.S. Embassy there, Mr. Rudnytsky’s recital programs included works by Mendelssohn, Beethoven, Aaron Copland, Chopin, Debussy and Liszt. In Teno, he had a session with local music students.
Mr. Rudnytsky has played concerts in the vast majority of Latin American countries at one time or another, but Chile is where ha has played the most. Between 1992 and 2001, he made eight tours there, performing 48 concerts in 17 cities and towns.
He will return to Chile in 2019 as he recently received an invitation to perform as soloist with the symphony orchestra of the northern city of Antofagasta. He played the Beethoven Concerto No. 3 in C minor with that orchestra about 20 years ago and will very likely perform this same concerto next year.
Earlier this year, Mr. Rudnytsky was in the Pacific, where he played recitals on the island of Saipan and on the island of Majuro in the Marshall Islands during February. His recital there was broadcast live over the “Moonlight” program on the radio throughout the entire scattered Marshall Islands. He was introduced at his recital to the audience by the immediate past president of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, Christopher Loeak, who had introduced Mr. Rudnytsky’s recital there a number of years earlier when he was in office as the president.
In March, Mr. Rudnytsky traveled to New Zealand to do his 13th tour there, playing five recitals.
At the end of April, he played a recital of works by Debussy and the Spanish composers Isaac Albeniz and Manuel de Falla in the town of Ashburnham Mass., as part of the series organized by the Frederick Collection of Historical Instruments. Mr. Rudnytsky played this recital on an 1877 French Erard concert grand from the Frederick Collection. Erard pianos were used by Chopin, Liszt, Mendelssohn, Grieg, Ravel and Clara Schumann.
Later this year, Mr. Rudnytsky will once again be playing on the island of Guam and on several cruises of Cunard’s flagship, the Queen Mary 2, plus 10 recitals in Britain in-between those cruises.