REVIEWS

BIER, BRATWURST UND RACHMANINOW (RUHR NACHRICHTEN)
"Denn Kodanahsvili ist Schüler im „Piano Studio“ von Alexander Toradze. Und der Meister und seine Eleven lieben den Klavier-Marathon: Stundenlang wird musiziert, das Werk nur eines Komponisten zelebriert, kurze Ansagen inbegriffen"... read ›››

Martin Schrahn, Detailansicht - News ( Sunday, July 13, 2003)

WENN DAS KLAVIER MASSEN VERZAUBERT (WAZ)
"Dort gastierte das "Toradze Piano Studio" der Indiana University South Band. Der in Amerika lebende Alexander Toradze - er spielte just unter Gergiev Prokofjews Konzerte fulminant ein - ist ein Meister der russischen Klavierschule"... read ›››

Michael Stenger , Detailansicht - News ( Sunday, July 13, 2003)

ARTS: A PECULIARLY GEORGIAN GENIUS
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Andrew Clark, Financial Times ( Friday, May 16, 2003)

PIANIST'S SHOWS IN DEBUT HE'S FORCE OF MUSICAL NATURE
"The three Russian composers who are keeping the Cleveland Orchestra extremely busy this week with guest conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen have a way of treating music in the most elemental ways"... read ›››

Donald Rosenberg, Plain Dealer Music Critic ( Friday, April 11, 2003)

ALLA SAPIENZA IL PIANISTA TORADZE E I SUOI ALLIEVI ESEGUONO L’INTEGRALE DELLE SONATE DI PROKOFIEV
"All’Aula Magna della Sapienza la IUC propone oggi pomeriggio una “maratona Prokofiev” con l’integrale delle Sonate per pianoforte affidate al maestro russo Alexander Toradze e ai suoi allievi"... read ›››

, Il Corriere della Sera ( Tuesday, March 18, 2003)

“SENZA ITALIA NON ESISTEREBBE LA MUSICA”
"“Ho creato un laboratorio presso l’Indiana University South Bend per far studiare l’integrale opera pianistica dei maggiori compositori”"... read ›››

Paola Pariset, Il Tempo ( Saturday, November 16, 2002)

MUSIC REVIEW; FOUR HOURS OF SCRIABIN'S SONATAS AND OTHER PIANO THRILLS
"Four hours of Scriabin, one paroxysm at the piano exploding or evaporating after another, might be thought too much"... read ›››

Paul Griffiths, The New York Times ( Tuesday, November 05, 2002)

ARTS & LEISURE - THE OTHER TEAM IN SOUTH BEND: PIANISTS
"One rainy night in May, 20 or so people were eating, drinking and talking non-stop with Finnish, Japanese, Russian, Georgian and some indefinable accents at a long table at T.G.I Friday’s in South Bend, Ind."... read ›››

Maya Pritsker, The New York Times ( Sunday, October 27, 2002)

"The keyboard music of Johann Sebastian Bach formed a fascinating centrepiece of the 41st Settimane Musicali di Stresa e del Lago Maggiore, not only with the master’s own notes, but in transcriptions, paraphrases, works by other composers with Bach looking over their shoulders and a couple of new works set in a Bachian context"... read ›››

David Stevens, INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE ( Wednesday, September 18, 2002)

FINALLY, A WEEKEND FUSS FOR UNLUCKY PROKOFIEV
"Prokofiev appears to have become the poor relation among the great 20th century Russian composers. The music world spends plenty of time examining and agonizing over the life and music of Shostakovich, and Stravinsky looms over the lot despite the relatively small percentage of his music – virtually all of it early – that has become part of the standard repertory"... read ›››

Allan Kozinn, The New York Times ( Tuesday, December 18, 2001)

LE MARATONE DEL MAESTRO
"Alexander Toradze celebrità del panismo georgiano, insegna all’Università statunitense dell’Indiana, ma non è un docente come tanti: è “il Maestro”, perché prende per mano i talenti più convincenti e cinque, sei volte l’anno, li porta porta con sé in giro per il mondo"... read ›››

Armando Caruso, LA STAMPA ( Wednesday, August 29, 2001)

SOMEWHERE IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE
"Love him or hate him, pianist Alexander Toradze has made waves in Indiana. Andrew Clark is impressed by an unlikely centre of excellence"... read ›››

Andrew Clark, Financial Times ( Monday, December 04, 2000)

GRAND AMBITIONS UNFOLD IN STRESA
"This resort of the west bank of Lago Maggiore, between Milan and the Swiss border, has long been a regular on the summer music festival circuit, but with this year’s edition – the 38th – it is expanding its ambitions as well as its geographical limits"... read ›››

David Stevens, INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE ( Wednesday, September 08, 1999)

A BARNSTOMER
"In a festival that has contained quite a number of literally extraordinary musical experiences, yesterday afternoon0s concert by six young Russian virtuoso pianists – almost four hours long – was, in some ways, the most extraordinary of all"... read ›››

Michael Tumelty, The Daily Telegraph on Stravinsky ( Thursday, August 21, 1997)

JUST ACROSS THE BORDER, IN SOUTH BEND, LIES A PIECE OF PIANO HEAVEN
"It’s not surprise to find two grand pianos in a piano studio. And at the world-class studio it’s not unusual to have advertising posters from students’ international concerts on the wall. A view of a lazy river out the window isn’t all that rare either"... read ›››

Sebastian Blanco, The Gilmore ( )