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Contact: David West (west@nsula.edu )
News Bureau
Northwestern State University
Natchitoches, LA 71497
(318) 357-6466

11/19/2004

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

NATCHITOCHES - Krassimira Jordan will present a piano recital at Northwestern State University Tuesday, Nov. 30 at 7:30 p.m. in Magale Recital Hall. The concert is part of the Louisiana Piano Series International. Tickets are $10. All elementary, secondary and college students in Louisiana are admitted free.

A native of Varna, Bulgaria, Jordan has been an artist-in-residence and professor of piano at Baylor University since 1989. Each June, she teaches a select group of pianists and teacher-observers accepted to the Bosendorfer International Piano Academy in Vienna, Austria. Jordan has enhanced the international image of Baylor University through conducting intensive master classes, instruction in European culture and history and organizing educational tours and student concerts in Europe.

Jordan began her formative musical training at age four and made her recital debut when she was seven. She studied in Sofia, Vienna, and Moscow, winning a series of prestigious international prizes including the International Piano Competition's "Alfredo Casella" and "Alessandro Casagrande" as well as the Mozart "Clara Haskil" Prize. As a representative of Austria, Jordan was the Gold Medal winner at the 1981 Rio de Janeiro International Piano Competition.

Jordan has performed with much acclaim as recitalist and orchestral soloist in major European cities, Latin America, Asia and the United States. She has appeared as soloist with the Wiener Symphoniker and the Tonkunstler Orchestra in Vienna. In recent years Ms. Jordan has been regularly invited to Japan, China, Korea, and Taiwan to conduct master classes at the major universities of Beijing, Shanghai, Seoul, Osaka, Tokyo and Taipei. Highly regarded as a teacher, her students come from all parts of the world and have won top prizes at numerous international piano competitions in the U.S., Europe, and Asia.

Together with Wolfgang Watzinger, a pupil of Rudolf Serkin and a professor of piano in the Concert Performance Department of the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, Jordan performs as the Vienna International Piano Duo.

Jordan has recorded a series entitled "Franz Liszt - Beruhmte Klavierwerke" (Famous Piano Works). Her most recent compact disc releases, "Slavic Masterworks for Piano" and "The Legacy of Pantcho Vladigerov," are both available on the Albany Records label.

Before joining Baylor's faculty, Jordan was professor of piano at the world-renowned Vienna Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts from 1979 to 1989. Her Carnegie Hall debut in March 1989 was followed by an appearance on the radio show "The Listening Room" with Robert Shermann on WQXR-FM in New York City, where she interpreted and discussed works by Viennese composers.

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