NEWS RELEASE

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

02/17/2004

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

NATCHITOCHES- Pianist Oxana Yablonskaya, a member of the faculty at the Juilliard School, will present a concert at Northwestern State University Saturday, Feb. 21 at 7:30 p.m. in Magale Recital Hall. The concert is part of the Louisiana Piano Series International.

Tickets are $10. Admission is free for all students attending Louisiana schools.

Yablonskaya has been considered one of the world's major pianists since her 1977 American debut at Lincoln Center Alice Tully Hall. A sold-out Carnegie Hall concert soon followed. She has performed in leading concert halls throughout the world, including the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, Orchestra Hall in Chicago, Royal Albert Hall in London and the Concetgebouw in Amsterdam.

Following her Canadian performance with the National Symphony with Rostropovich conducting, the Toronto Star said: "She played the Rachmaninoff Third as if it had been written for her."

A native of Russia, Yablonskaya has performed in more than 30 countries from the United States, Mexico, Central and South America, and most Western countries to India, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. She toured extensively throughout the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc countries while teaching at the Moscow Conservatory. In 1990 Yablonskaya returned to the Soviet Union where she gave concerts at the Great Hall in St. Petersburg as well as masterclasses and concerts in the St. Petersburg Conservatory of Music.

Yablonskaya won the Grand Prize in the Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud Competition in Paris, the First Prize in the Rio de Janeiro Competition and the Vienna Beethoven Competition.

Her solo recordings have been awarded the Grand Prix du Disque from the International Liszt Society, and have been featured by The Book Of The Month Club. Her recent recordings include critically acclaimed versions of works by Rakhmaninov and Tchaikovsky. She frequently collaborates in performance and on recordings with her son, renowned cellist/conductor Dmitry Yablonsky.

She has been a professor at the Juilliard School since 1983.

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