NEWS RELEASE

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

9/15/2003

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

NATCHITOCHES- Pianist Alexander Tutunov will present a concert at Northwestern State University Friday, Sept. 19 at 7:30 p.m. in Magale Recital Hall. The concert is part of the Louisiana Piano Series International. NSU Assistant Professor of Piano Nikita Fitenko is the series organizer.

Tickets for the entire concert series is $20 or $10 for each individual concert. Admission is free for any college, elementary or secondary school student in Louisiana.

Tutunov is one of the most outstanding young virtuosos of the former Soviet Union. A native of Byelorussia, he entered the Central Music School of the Moscow Conservatory at age seven, one of three chosen out of 200 applicants, to study with Lev Naumov and Victor Merzhanov, where he graduated magna cum laude. He also holds diplomas in concert performance, with honors, from the Minsk Musical College (Byelorussia), University of North Texas (piano studies with Joseph Banowetz), and the Byelorussian National Academy of Music.

Tutunov was awarded the highest post graduate degree in concert performance from the Byelorussian State Conservatory in Minsk. He won first prize in the Byelorussian National Piano Competition, and was a winner of the Russian National Piano Competition. Tutunov has performed extensively in the former Soviet Union, Poland, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic and the United States as a recitalist, soloist with orchestra, and on radio and television.

He is presently under contract with Altarus Records to record the complete solo piano works of Lev Abeliovich. His recent recordings also include a concerto for piano and orchestra by Peter Sacco with the Czech National Symphony Orchestra.

Tutunov is director of keyboard studies at Southern Oregon University, He has also taught at the Minsk College of Music, the University of North Texas and Illinois Wesleyan University.

For more information on the Louisiana Piano International Series, call (318) 357-5763 or go to www.fitenko.com/pianoseries.

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