Meet Our Faculty

Stanislav Ioudenitch - Piano
Ioudenitch is currently serving as Associate Professor of Music and the Artistic Director of the Youth Conservatory of Music and the International Center for Music at Park University. In 2001, Ioudenitch won the Gold Medal at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition and has spent the last three years on a worldwide concert tour.

Born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Ioudenitch has grown into one of the music world’s most promising young artists, exhibiting a strong individuality and musical conviction that sets him apart from other artists of his generation. He has netted top prizes at the Busoni, Kapell, and Maria Callas Competitions and took first prize at both the 1998 Palm Beach Invitational and the 2000 New Orleans International Piano Competitions.

A former student of Dmitri Bashkirov, he also studied with Leon Fleisher, Murray Perahia, Karl Ulrich Schnabel, and Rosalyn Tureck at the prestigious International Piano Foundation Theo Lieven in Cadenabbia, Italy and is the youngest teacher ever invited to give master classes at the Foundation and Academy Theo Lieven.

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Martin Storey  - Cello
 British-born cellist, Storey is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music in London and continued his studies at the New England Conservatory in Boston as a Fulbright Scholar.

He has served as the principal cellist with the London Symphony Orchestra, The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

He performs regularly in Japan and England as a soloist, and he is the cellist of ‘Quartet Accorda’—Kansas City’s resident string quartet.

Gregory Sandomirsky -Violin/Viola
Sandomirsky holds a master of music degree in violin from the Odessa Conservatory, Russia. He is well known to Kansas City audiences and is currently serving as the Associate Concertmaster of the Kansas City Symphony.

In the summer of 2003, he served as Guest Concertmaster, Camerata Strumentale “Citta di Prato” at the Academia Musicale, Chigianna Festival, Italy and continues solo appearances throughout Europe.

Tatiana Ioudenitch - Piano
 Ioudenitch is a graduate of the Uspensky Specialized School of Music for Gifted Children in Tashkent, Uzbekistan and holds a master's degree in piano performance from the Saratov State Conservatory in Russia.

She participated in the Rachmaninoff International Piano Courses and attended classes at the International Piano Foundation in Italy.

She was an award recipient in the 1993 All Russia Piano Competition and, before moving to the United States, she performed in recitals and as a soloist with orchestras throughout Russia.

Currently she teaches piano and theory at the Ioudenitch Music School in Overland Park.

Marina Sultanova, Ph.D. - Piano
Sultanova was born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, where she began her musical studies at the Uspensky Specialized School of Music for Gifted Children in Tashkent.

Her exceptional talents were inimitable and the much-admired young pianist enrolled in the Tashkent Conservatory. There she earned a master’s degree and was recognized as a cum laude recipient. Choosing to continue with her education, she enrolled and studied at the Moscow Conservatory, where she received a doctoral degree, and was again honored with cum laude distinction.

She is the recipient of two highly-prized national competitions and has performed as a solo-pianist with the National Chamber Orchestra “Soloists of Uzbekistan.” Additionally, she has performed in numerous cities in the former Soviet Union, and internationally in the United States, Yugoslavia, and Turkey.

Sultanova served as an associate professor of piano at the Tashkent Conservatory and Uspensky Music School, where her teaching skills attributed to several of her students becoming national and international competition winners.

Robert R. Pevitts, Ph.D. - Executive Director
Pevitts serves as the Executive Director of the Youth Conservatory for Music and the International Center for Music. Dr. Pevitts holds a doctoral degree and a master of arts degree from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, a bachelor of arts degree from Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota, and post-doctoral study from The City University of New York.

He has served in higher education administration for the past 25 years, including Dean of Fine of Performing Arts at Texas Wesleyan University and Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts and Associate Provost at Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota.

Pevitts, a professional designer and director, has worked in regional theatres throughout the United States and in ten colleges and universities.

Ben Sayevich

Lithuanian-Israeli violinist Ben Sayevich began his studies at the Churlonis School for the performing Arts in Vilnius. His teachers have included Felix Andrievsky, Dorothy Delay, and Eric Rosenblith. He is a recipient of the prestigious artist diploma from the New England Conservatory, where he was the teaching assistant to Eric Rosenblith.

Sayevich has concertized extensively throughout North America, Europe and the Far East and has appeared on radio and television as a soloist and chamber musician. He is featured as the soloist in a recording of Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons,” with the Kansas City Chamber Orchestra. One of the most important works in his repertory is the Violin Concerto by Alban Berg, for which he was chosen to play at the New England Conservatory’s celebration of the composer’s centenary. Sayevich’s interpretation carries the tradition that comes down directly from the composer, through his work on the piece with the late Louis Krasner, the commissioner, dedicatee and the violinist at the work’s premiere.

Sayevich posts have included the Concertmaster of the Kansas City Camerata and the Kansas City Chamber Orchestra, with who he has made numerous concerto appearances, including Violin Concertos by Vieuxtemps, Glazunov, Mozart and Beethoven. He has taught at the Hartt School of Music from 1987 to 1992, and at the New England Conservatory in l995, and the Yellow Barn Music Festival, in Vermont. Sayevich is violinist of the London-based Rosamunde Piano Trio, which has performed widely in England and in Europe.

Adjunct Faculty will be drawn from the talented pool of professionals in the greater Kansas City Area.

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